The Lie In George Orwell's 1984 By George Orwell

George Orwell's 1984 is a dystopian novel where everything is overseen by the government. There are telescreens and surveillance cameras everywhere, watching the citizens' every move and the citizens' do not have any privacy whatsoever. In this dystopia, called Oceania, there is a lot of contradiction regarding the governance of the Party. A big part of this contradiction includes the 4 Ministries and their slogans.

Countless times throughout the novel, Winston acknowledges the affair is short lived and he will eventually be captured and punished for his delinquency. He repeatedly reminds himself “that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.” (135) so the source of his determination to rebel must not be a belief in success. As Winston is striving to survive in this authoritarian society, there exists a gradual execution of his sanity. As he sits in a holding cell with white porcelain walls, no windows, his fear is lit by his own shadows as he drowns in his own sorrows at the place where there is no darkness,

There is, in every person, a secret part of one's self that is kept completely secret. Most often than not, it is a place of solitude, where no one else is admitted entry. Logic does not rule here; pure instinct, the drive for survival, is what reigns supreme in this realm. However, there are those chosen few who are allowed in, and it is they who are most dangerous; they alone know how to best maul, injure, and in the end, betray. Orwell created such a relationship in 1984 between Winston and Julia. Though the idea is never directly stated, the likelihood that Julia is a member of the Thought-Police grows increasingly more evident and obvious as the story progresses through her words, actions, and in the

“It was not easy to preserve inscrutability when you did not know what your face looked like. In any case, mere control of the features was not enough. For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name. From now onwards he must not only think right; he must feel right, dream right. And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside of him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst” (Orwell, 231).

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (Orwell). This mantra was burned into the minds of the citizens of Oceania, or future London, where Winston Smith, the protagonist, lives. The citizens of Oceania are constantly being bombarded with propaganda in favor of Big Brother and the Party, who leads and governs them, which brings the majority of them into complete submission. In the book, 1984, George Orwell shows how technology is used by the Party to monitor, brainwash, and provoke fear in the people of Oceania in order to control them.

This statement does not hold to be true. The ability of humans to think for themselves lies within the human being. The more that we rely on technology will support how we find better ways to further advance our species. I believe the the ability for humans to think for themselves lies within the particular human being. Technology assists us to find answers quicker than our forefathers. This would have made us find our answers through extensive research. We have a better understanding or even knowledge of other cultures. The amount of information that we are privy to is immense. Humans will have to use their own judgement to use technology to its fullest potential. George Orwell's 1984 discusses a society that depends on technology and there

Because of the way media is controlled and displayed in the united states, one can perceive our society to be like the one in 1984, and one can see that through the experiences Winston went through. Winston experienced the thought police, telescreens, fabricated wars, and fabricated media, just like we do every single day. The only difference between us and Winston's society is that we don’t know that it is going on.

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” This is the slogan of the Inner Party in 1984. George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 depicts a terrifying and bleak image of the future under “Big Brother” — an authoritarian regime that controls not only the citizens’ action, but their very own thoughts. The novel was written in 1948 as a critique of authoritarianism and Stalinism, after Orwell’s travel to Spain where he witnessed the atrocities committed by the fascist Spanish regime during the Spanish Civil War in 1936. The rise of the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and Adolf Hitler in Germany inspired Orwell’s enmity toward totalitarianism and authoritarianism. Although written as a political satire over half a century ago, 1984 lives today not only as a well-crafted novel, but also as a terrific prophecy of the contemporary United States. Nobody is willing to admit that people are living in the society of 1984. Its authoritarian state is toxic to the health of democracy. But if one really analyzes what is happening in the United States — the closure of public schools and its effect on the pervasive incarceration of the black population, and the mass surveillance — one may find a striking resemblance to the dystopian society of 1984. To this extent, 1984 successfully advances the authoritarianism in the United States that resembles the authoritarian control in 1984. These critiques of the new authoritarianism in the United States include the

George Orwell’s novel, 1984, focuses on heavily on a fairly small lineup of characters, mainly focusing on the central character and protagonist, Winston Smith whose central conflict stems from his moral discontent with the tyrannical Party. Winston is an ultimately very relatable character, an ordinary man who finds himself fighting for his very existence as an individual against the unrelenting will of the government. Unlike Julia, the only other confirmed rebel in the novel, Winston’s insurrection is based off of ideals and he remains curious about how Oceania works and, more importantly, why it functions the way it does.

The distorted concept of truth and the actual truth differ greatly in certain situations. In George Orwell’s book 1984, the upper class alters real occurrences and truths in order to keep themselves in power. In today’s society, media and news distributors alter the idea of truth as well. The majority of people regard most of the stories they read on the Internet to be true. People do not always speak the authentic truth, but instead speak their perceived truth.

Rebellion within a society is often considered to be an action in which common ideologies imposed. The individual imposing these ideologies does not believe in keeping their opinions quiet, rather this individual lets their opinions be known to the society. This phenomenon is evident in George Orwell’s novel, 1984 in which the protagonist, Winston possesses critical features of a rebel. The rebellious personality of Winston is first introduced to the reader through his thoughtcrime’s. This trait is also distinctly seen through the doubts he has towards the governing party. Finally, the characteristic of rebellion is also successfully shown through Winston’s desire for happiness. It is evident that through the novel 1984, Winston is a rebellious character.

The book 1984 by George Orwell takes place in the fictitious dystopian country of Oceania. Orwell warns readers of the grim future that will occur if the government continues to use surveillance, propaganda, and manipulation. The world that Orwell paints is one that is greatly dystopian. The citizens of the state have no control over their actions to the point where the government even invades on their thoughts and emotions. Although the date of 1984 has long passed the ideals of Oceania seem to gradually sink into our current society. However with proper awareness and a deep passion for change, liberty could still be preserved. .

Character is defined as brief outline of a personage who typifies certain qualities. The person is described, not as an individualized personality, but as a vice or virtue or type, such as a superstitious fellow, a county bumpkin, a happy milkmaid, etc. Similar treatments of institutions and inanimate objects, such as “the character of a coffee house,” also employed the term, and in the late seventeenth century, by a natural extension of the tradition, character was applied to longer compositions, some historical (Holman). 1984 is a novel written by George Orwell set in London, Oceania, in 1984.

In the dystopian novel, 1984, George Orwell predicted the future to be overrun by a tyrannical government that values conformity to the extreme over the lives of their citizens. Orwell warns future generations through his depiction of the dystopian world that consists of the three powers; Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia. Upon examining tyranny in Oceania’s society and the knowledge of reality outside of an individual’s mind, it is found that freedom cannot exist under tyranny and when citizens are unaware of the “real” reality around them which highlights Orwell’s warning of a future that is heavily controlled by an overpowered government.

1984 by George Orwell sets the overall eerie tone of the book early on. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 3). In the book this was the statement was put on a poster of big brothers face. Firstly this is an example of metonymy. In the statement the term “BIG BROTHER” isn’t referring to how big brother very closely related to the thought police. The thought police is the organization that monitors the inner and outer party members. Secondly this can be looked through a postmodernist lens as the consequence of advancing technologies and technoculture. In the Airstrip One which is 1984’s dystopian version of london. Which has been pledged with the plight, that is, advance technologies. There are “telescreens” on over Airstrip One. these