Similarities Between George Orwell And 1984

Orwell and 1984 takes place in a dystopian society where advanced technology and tools are used as a mean of fear and manipulation in an effort to control its people and prevent any suspicious “democratic” activities. Living in a time of World War II, Orwell intended to write 1984 as a warning and indication of future endangerments that the reality of tyranny was seen in various places: Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and many other countries. The portrayal of Winston Smith's life in the country of Oceania with the Party and Big Brother depicts the terrifying reminiscent of Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union. In terming this novel as a "cautionary piece," is it evident through the opening chapters of 1984 that Orwell deemed the

As the plot of the novel drags along, we learn that Big Brother and the Inner Party are the commanders of society. Orwell predicts their rise to power as a result of possible fear from war in which a state of world where the people puts in all their trusts into the government, and this allows such government to abuse its authority and power in taking complete control over one’s mind and body. Through the use of newspeak which is the Oceanic's language used chiefly in political propaganda, the Party demonstrates its power to bend time, truth, and history such as presented when they are able to delete newspaper articles and other traces of someone's identity upon execution. The dangers of surveillance and how the government installed telescreens which never turns off, “Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of fig- 1984 ures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron. The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall. Winston turned a switch and the voice sank somewhat, though the words were still distinguishable. The