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Totalitarianism In 1984

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12/14/15 George Orwell 1984 Could you be controlled without knowing so? George Orwell’s dystopian fiction 1984 is a gripping warning about the dangers of totalitarian politics and compliance to such political systems.Through the trials of main character Winston Smith living in Orwell interpretation of the future, modern day London totalitarian superstate called Oceania, Orwell’s write his precautionary trial. I believe Orwell wrote this book to warn us about certain characteristics that we possessed as human beings that could lead us into such a dystopian world as the one presented in 1984. Power, total power given to such a political system is what drives this novel. In 1984 the power of the government over the people is such that even language has become controlled. “ The purpose of newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expressions for the worldview and mental habits proper the devotees of Ingsoc,but to make all their modes of thought impossible.”page(299-300) How do you devise a revolution without words to properly convey your thoughts, you can not. This almost makes …show more content…

In Orwell’s novel people are continuously manipulated most of which are so dull they do not know that they are being manipulated. Though some allow themselves to be manipulated out of fear of opposition. For instance one may know that two plus two equals four but if the party says that it equals five, no matter how much you protest inwardly or verbally, you in the end will too say that two plus two is five. “ Thoughtcrime does not entail death: Thoughtcrime is death.”(page 28) Winston tried to cheat the party, he thought that he could hold on to his own personal beliefs and die free but in the end he would die pure. Purety in 1984 was complete compliance to the ordrindy of the party.” The party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested int the good of others, we are interested in power, pure

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Marcelo Navarro Mr. duryea English 12 March 15, 2018 Inhumane The Book 1984 is a book based on a totalitarian government where the government has complete and total control over every aspect of someone's life. In 1984 you couldn't even have privacy in your own home, you would be under constant supervision and if you were caught doing something illegal the thought police would come and arrest you. In 1984 the government controlled its people through fear, the people of 1984 where always scared of being caught doing anything illegal and where also scared because the government would bomb itself saying that they were in a war. This book shows what could happen if people would let

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Winston’s explanation of the Party and these beliefs illustrates the corruption they experience for they are unable to think for themselves and are forced to accept whatever they are told to believe. Orwell uses diction to convey a theme of totalitarianism

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In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” by limiting intellectual freedom through language expressing any sentiment against the ruling class would be impossible, Orwell himself also held this opinion that controlling language and expression also meant controlling minds and actions in his essay politics and the English language (1946) Orwell said ‘"If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." Drawing from the Ussr and its suppression of though under Stalin, he was openly critical of the regime in his novel animal farm despite himself being a socialist. By suppressing intellectual thought of the party members, they suppress independent thought which is a point made throughout both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451.

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Orwell exaggerated how much the government controls by implementing concepts such as Newspeak, Thoughtcrime, and the surveillance by The Party through the use of telescreens. His purpose in these exaggerations is to make a statement about censorship, individualism, and authoritarian government. The concept of Newspeak in the book is to censor and control the people through the manipulation of the English language. It is meant to be a revised version of the English language that minimizes the language to limit how people communicate with others. This is meant as an exaggeration for the purpose of making a statement about censorship and euphemisms as well as being used as a main plot point.

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1984 Essay There’s no point in trying to fight the government; it will always have control over us, no matter how hard we try to fight it. Americans are like the members of Oceania in Orwell’s 1984 today due to the use of photo and media manipulation by the government in order to rewrite the past. Some people may believe that the government does not have complete control because the public voices their anti-government opinions through protesting, but little actually comes out of these protests. Manipulation by the government has been proven time after time in America, and Orwell predicted that.

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1984 written by George Orwell is a novel based on a society ruled by a totalitarian government that prohibits independent thought in order to conform all individuals. Emotional manipulation and torture is utilized in the book to control all of Oceania into believing what the government wishes its people to believe. Although propaganda is apparent all throughout Oceania instilling specific ideas, some individuals, like Winston, oppose the Party’s thoughts, questioning the information that is presented to them. After Winston is caught for committing his acts of rebellion and defying the Party, he is continually tortured in hopes that he will be “cured.” In George Orwell’s book 1984, the Party effectively tortures Winston through both physical

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All while creating approved views that give a subjective fit to the Big Brother party. George Orwell hints to us in Nineteen Eighty-Four that we increase public attention of this “New Speak”. The media in his novel show us this expression of language by the use of posters, and advertised on the Television. Double think which creates a inconsistency in phrases such as “Ignorance is Strength” or “Freedom is Slavery”(Orwell pg.6). Language is used by the party to fool and shape people.

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This scene is truly about how no matter how hard the Party tries there are still going to be people who betray the ideals and end up using their free will and become rebellious. The message that Orwell was trying to stress is that this is why dictatorships do not and will not work in the real world. It is because the people will always be rebellious and always still have their own free will to do whatever the people want to do.

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Winston only knows the details of thoughtcrime punishment because he probably is involved in it and wants to know the punishment that awaits him. Furthermore, when Winston writes in his diary again, he thinks about the party and their way to brainwash an individual, and the author states, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows” (81). George Orwell’s hyperbole is how a simple equation is the key to thinking for oneself without another’s guidance.

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