Oceania

allowed them to look forward to a better day. In the Soviet Union, in Communist China, and even in Nazi Germany, love could not be changed and was something that people of those nations were free to practice on their own. But this was not the case in Oceania, and Orwell made this abundantly clear. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four explores the lack of freedom instituted by Big Brother and how the character of Winston experienced the deprivation of love in Winston’s past relationships with…

plays a major role. Winston Smith is a government worker for the totalitarian state of Oceania, led by the mustachioed dictator Big Brother, where he works in the Ministry of Truth, which is the exact opposite of what is sounds. Winston’s job, even it if is done reluctantly, is to falsify records that go against the country’s current stance on an opinion, or to change historical records to make it seem like Oceania was always at war or allied with one country and not the other. When Winston…

the rules. Although even if you wanted to test it and find out what could happen they you will either be tortured, brain washed, sent to jail, or even all 3. At extreme points they’ll separate you from your family if you have one. In the book, the Oceania government controls their citizens…

The use of language, torture, and propaganda gives the party a direct control over the people of Oceania. The party’s use of language has a great impact on how the people of Oceania are brainwashed into showing devotion towards Big Brother. In Orwell’s 1984, the clever use of words compel the citizens of Oceania to think about two contradictory statements at the same time. This is known as the concept of Doublethink which was introduced in Part I. The…

Oceania and The Amish; Actually Dystopias Utopias and dystopias are supposed to be opposite worlds, but most utopias may actually be a dystopia because of how they are controlled by the government or its leaders. A utopia is a world that the people living in it believe it to be a perfect place. In the article “Dystopias: Definitions and Characteristics,” a utopia is defined as, “A place, state, or condition that is ideally perfect in respect of politics, laws, customs, and…

The timeless novel 1984 depicts Oceania, a place where Big Brother controls everything, and a place of no laws. Winston Smith lives in London, which is a part of the super state Oceania. Oceania is broken down into three levels of power, the proles, the inner party, and the outer party. Life there was pretty simple because “nothing was illegal, since there were no longer any laws” (Orwell, 6). A defining part of a utopia is the absence of laws. Oceania has no laws that are clearly written,…

In the book 1984 written by George Orwell (1948), the author presents Oceania, a fictional alternative of the British society in the year 1984. There are many parallels to be drawn between the society Orwell portrays in his book and USA today. Furthermore, by observing surveillance of the population, wars that never seem to end, and a perverted use of science, it becomes apparent that the fictional world is not so disparate from reality as one might think. In the society of 1984, surveillance…

Can a government really control the country by using languages? In Oceania, it has the government control the lives of the people by using languages and the government in 1984 is called Big Brother. It is created by George Orwell and it is about how Big brother can control the people by using languages. There are four ministry that control different part of the government. There is newspeak and doublethink that Big Brother use to control the people and it would restrict how people would rebel.…

1984 is a dystopian novel by George Orwell that shows the reader a totalitarian state, Oceania, ruled by the omnipresent Big Brother and the Inner Party. 1984 was written in 1948, when the tensions were beginning to rise and the people of continents Europe and Asia were still recovering from the events of World War II. The two nations were still in shambles because of the destruction wrought from the battles fought all over Europe and the atom bomb being dropped in Hiroshima. Typically, when…

that they will always remain obedient. Throughout everyday activities, Winston and other citizens in Oceania are regularly reminded of the brave soldiers…