Nineteen Eighty-Four

We can be forgiven for wondering if ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ no longer is a fictitious novel due to it mirroring today’s society structurally, linguistically and characteristically. From early age Orwell encountered and faced the dangers of totalitarianism. Wanting to warn people of these dangers he wrote books to express and evaluate the means of the corrupt world. ‘ Nineteen Eighty-Four’ is far-stretched image of what our world could turn into under ‘trusted’ government regime. Although written over 5 decades ago, Orwell’s vision of future dystopia is slowly becoming a reality as the manipulation of fear is still used as a tool to control society, language is used to make lies sound truthful and the corrupt structure of the Orwellian government is in tact. George Orwell’s ‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ is a shadow of the reality we live in today. In today’s society, people are forced through propaganda to believe that democracy exists and every person is entitled to freedom. Orwellian sentiment certainly is applicable to…

In Nineteen Eighty Four, major themes include the authoritarianism of the government and the manipulation of language to control the minds of the people. Oceania, the nation featured in Nineteen Eighty Four, is an authoritarian state which constantly monitors its people and immediately suppresses any dissent through the use of Thought Police and its “Ministry of Love”. However, despite the use of these institutions to directly oppress the people, the language of Oceania itself is used in…

Oceania during the year 1984. In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell brings to life a totalitarian regime, Oceania, where “the Party” and “Big Brother” strip people of their individual rights, freedoms, and privacy. Big Brother and the Party do this through the control of language, history, privacy, and logic. The Party reconstructs language through the revision of words and creates a new language known as “Newspeak”. The Party alters historical records in order to promote the…

A comparative study of Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1948) sheds light on ideas about progress in the first half of the twentieth century to a large extent. Both texts challenge the vision of “a future society unbelievably rich, leisured, orderly and efficient.” Due to their different contexts, each text presents a different perspective on the issues of the use of social manipulation to achieve progress, and the loss of humanity in relation to the pursuit…

When living in a society engrossed by technology, it is important to remember that such luxury has faults. As humans, we are not perfect, and neither is anything that humans create. Technology and the advancements of media are no exception. It can be easily manipulated and changed, and can be used to do such to others. With such a power over every creature on this planet, it must be understood and analyzed, which is why dystopian works such as George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four are so…

The dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell depicts a totalitarian society under which language has enormous power and influence. Language is used for propaganda such as the Party slogan, ‘War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength’ as well as for the manipulation and control of thought. The Party creates its own language, newspeak, which is ‘the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year’. Destroying language and reducing the number…

During the “Call to Adventure”, heroes embark their journey by receiving information that initiates the journey. For example, in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston immediately begins his expedition by rebelling against Big Brother and The Party. He purchases a diary from a small shop located in an area where Proles, the lowest class in the hierarchy, lives. Winston crossing his territory demonstrates the disobedient mindset he discloses. Furthermore, he writes about the naivety of his coworkers…

The book Nineteen Eighty-four by George Orwell is about a older man name Winston Smith is a low-ranking member of the ruling party in London. Everywhere he goes even home the party watches him through telescreens. Also everywhere he looks he seems to see a figure known as the big brother. Winston later gets frustrated how rigid the party is. Also he purchases a diary for his criminal thoughts and fixated with a powerful party member have O’Brien. Since he works in the ministry of truth he notice…

one of Orwell’s other famous works, Animal Farm, but it also featured a brief idea of the life of the author. Orwell fought and was injured in the Spanish Civil War, from which he drew inspiration for his writing. The outbreak of the Second World War consequently affected Orwell, as he was “denied military service for reasons of health.” According to this article, much of Orwell’s writing “parodies human political and social hierarchies.” George Orwell’s work, Nineteen Eighty Four could…

advancement of technology today is great and useful for many things.With the advancement of technology you can track someone without them even knowing or access their camera and mic,so let’s say the government wanted to find you, there would be no problem.In George Orwell’s book’’Nineteen Eighty-four ’’ he depicts in which everyone is under the surveillance of a man by the name of big brother and his followers.Orwell describes a world in which everything you do and say is watched at all…