In George Orwell’s book 1984, we are taken to the year 1984 in a futuristic totalitarian state. We experience this ‘new’ society through the main character, Winston Smith. Winston is portrayed in the story as an average man living in Oceania and working for the government in the Ministry of Truth. Even his surname, Smith, which is the most common...
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The stories we tell and the stories we are told enable us to see ourselves and our surroundings through a new lens. Orwell utilizes storytelling in 1984, employing the thematic concerns of dehumanization, personal autonomy, and love to explore the dangers of conformity. Moreover, Orwell highlights the importance of resisting oppressive narratives in order to live our own human experiences...
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The enigmatic dynamism of power will inevitably plague the human psyche distinguishing any form of human experience. Affected by his context, George Orwell mirrors Soviet Russia’s regime through his imposed panoptic society where deliberate class systems are imposed by the ruling authority to limit political rebellion and insist on societal control. The world of 1984, consists of three classes; the...
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Introduction George Orwell's novel, 1984, serves as a haunting portrayal of a dystopian society dominated by totalitarianism and the suppression of individual autonomy. Published in 1949, Orwell's work continues to resonate with readers due to its stark depiction of power dynamics, surveillance, and the manipulation of truth. Set in a future world where the Party exercises complete control over every...
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Over 2,5 billion people get hacked every year due to no privacy and too much personal information put on multiple devices. In the dystopic novel 1984, George Orwell predicted a world in which the people of Oceania are controlled by a totalitarian regime. The leader of the party, Big Brother, has complete control over his people, enforced by surveillance and...
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A man sits in an airtight, breathless room with an electronic screen embedded in the wall, and his every move is monitored even in the dark. There is also a poster on the wall that says, “Big Brother is watching you”(Orwell). This is the living environment described in George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, as Bossche introduced, “Winston, the main character...
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Throughout history, composers have created copious ways of passage inviting audiences to explore their understandings of individual and collective human experiences, as well as expand their views of the world. Furthermore, these texts provide audiences with great insight into the anomalies and inconsistencies in human behavior. They invite the readers to see the world and its institutions differently, challenge their...
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“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” Looking at North Korea and China we see totalitarian regimes reflected in modern society bring to fruition Orwell’s nightmare Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under the pen name George Orwell, published “1984,” now considered a modern-day classic. The novel’s protagonist Winston Smith is a middle-aged man frustrated with his way...
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1984 is based on a dystopia. “The war is within measurable distance of its end” implies that war has become such a common phenomenon to the point where the outcome could be easily predicted. This means that people are suffering and living in poor quality lifestyles not just due to the war but also because of the Party's control evidently...
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In the book 1984, there is a world where the government has turned into a totalitarian government. They do a lot of things to cover up things and the people are unaware of these things, that is because they are being controlled by the government and are forced to be loyal to the Party and all of its rules. The...
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Each text or literary work is interpreted differently by various readers. After reading a novel or a short story, the reader asks himself questions about the reasons why the author wrote it and what it means. Questions lead readers to interpret links to literature. People refer to what they read by connecting to their own lives, other texts, and the...
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The novel ‘1984’ and film ‘V for Vendetta’ are both works that explore how totalitarian governments cause isolation and fear through control. They demonstrate how methods such as propaganda, surveillance and fabrication of information assert control over the lives of their citizens and remove the individual freedom to create a mass of people living in a single unified movement. ‘1984’...
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In our world today, we seem to be losing contact with our language, our understanding of literature is moribund. However, literature is crucial for our understanding of the world and ourselves and reading literature is vital in order for us as a society to function . Literature helps us to gain an understanding of oneself and human experiences because it...
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While there are many differences between fiction and non-fiction titles, when comparing George Orwell’s 1984 to Patricia McCormick’s The Plot to Kill Hitler, many similarities emerge along with differences. The setting in 1984 consists of a political system that is authoritarian, oppressive, and ruthless in nature. It is post-revolutionary Britain, now called Oceania after the Socialist revolution, in the year...
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Humans have been telling stories since we could speak. We tell stories around the campfire, we write plays, novels, short stories and make movies. We do this because stories are an opportunity to share our personal experiences. Common human experiences that arise and are relatable to readers are the repression of freedom and the importance of memory to both individuals...
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Dystopian societies demonstrate the human emotion through the use of characterisation, specifically in regards to the way the character expresses themselves through their behaviour and language directed towards both themselves and other characters. This type of characterisation demonstrates the complexity of human emotions. Society affects the human experience through how it affects the human emotion due to the way it...
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How would you feel to be under constant surveillance, to be told what to think and do? If you had the slightest taste of freedom in a controlling environment would you fight for that freedom or not even try to grasp it. In both 1984, Allegory of the Cave, and Why Do People Follow The Crowd, you have selected citizens...
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George Orwell’s 1949 satire Nineteen-Eighty-Four, ignites new ideas about human behaviours prompted by totalitarian government’s degradation of individual and collective experiences and thus invites the reader to see the world differently. Orwell explores how oppressive authorities suppress societal expression and freedom to maintain power. He then reveals how this suppression brutalises human behaviour and motivations because it undermines emotion and...
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“Narcissists try to destroy your life with lies because theirs can be destroyed with the truth.” We are all encouraged at an early age to tell the truth. Told that we can better our lives if we follow this single rule. Yet deception and lies still creep into our lives. We're each lied to 10 to 200 times a day,...
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At the heart of the human experience is the desire to share stories that deepen and enrich our understanding of fundamental human tensions; between freedom and conformity. George Orwell's political satire 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' (1949) explores our ever-shifting desire between political freedom and individual authenticity and our desire for unity in the wake of state power. It is through Orwell's use...
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A society is essentially a community of people living together with there being a sort of order to everything. In novels, there can be two types of societies that can be present. The first is a utopian society which is defined by Merriam-webster.com as “a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions.”The second type of society...
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“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship” (‘1984’). In a society where citizens are stripped of their right to form an individual thought, forced into their line of work and have every action watched by their...
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In the book 1984, which was written in 1948, George Orwell exhibits a tragic culture that intended to be a notice about the eventual fate of our reality. Despite the fact that at the time the truth that was set for the novel was practically unimaginable, from various perspectives, our general public has come to look very like the anecdotal...
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The 20th century saw political extremism take an accentuated stand through the ruling of malevolent leaders. As specific examples, both Russia and Germany underwent significant changes regarding their political systems. In 1924, Russia took on a communist totalitarian perspective under Joseph Stalin, whereas in 1933 Germany was taken into a strictly totalitarian regime under Adolf Hitler’s rule. Both of these...
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‘1984’ delves into a world where the all-powerful party, Ingsoc, governs the state of Oceania. The party limits free-thought and individualism with the power of newspeak, double-think, and the existence of Big Brother. The worldbuilding and general tone of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ allow darkness and pessimism to burgeon using several motifs and symbolism to paint a bleak, gray, and dystopian...
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Orwell observed that every line of serious work he’s written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, from his understanding. Around the time of World War II, George Orwell was a major contributor to anticommunist literature. Orwell lived in England during World War II, when Nazi Germany, a totalitarian state, was at war...
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Choices exist in everyday life, beginning with the time of birth until the time of death and everyone changes life, whether it's by making a beneficial choice or not. In the novel ‘1984’, the Party has introduced slogans to manipulate and control the minds of citizens while putting ‘thoughts from the Party’ about what is important for them and what...
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The issue of homogeneity is a common, prevalent theme in dystopian literature. Individual thoughts and opinions are condemned, with people taught to have uniform opportunities. Whilst citizens of a dystopian society are often under the illusion of freedom of speech, the role of propaganda controlling minds is perceived to be under constant surveillance. In 1984, The Handmaid's Tale and Nose...
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Book Review. Summary The book 1984 is divided into 3 parts, Books 1, 2, and 3. As expected the novel begins in book 1 and in this first section, we are introduced to the main character, Winston Smith. The book begins with Winston returning home to his depressive, cold, and run-down apartment. As Winston returns home, he is greeted by...
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George Orwell’s prophetic nightmare “1984” warns the modern era about technology and society through his vision of a truly dystopian world. Despite Orwell writing the novel in 1949, his predictions are becoming increasingly true, whether that be how society will think and act, how technology will always be around us and ultimately watching us, and how we will live in...
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