Everywhere he turns, Winston Smith, the protagonist, is reminded of war, mostly due to the poor rebuilding and clean up efforts. Winston’s existence is affected by the infamous Two Minutes Hate: where citizens are forced to stand and watch an image of Goldstein, a supposed enemy of the Party and chant hatred at it. Billboards as well are plastered with brainwashing slogans of the party, such as “War is Peace, Slavery is Freedom, and Ignorance is Strength”. Readers relate to the destruction and impoverishment portrayed in 1984, because of all the destruction evident in, World War I, II, and most recently
This is what differentiates a __ hero and a tragic one. A tragic hero, according to Aristotle is a man of an elevated social stature who falls from his or her position through the effect of a tragic flaw. A tragic hero also experiences a sense of recognition that he has contributed to his downfall through his own actions. In the novel 1984, the author, George Orwell, creates a fictional character, Winston Smith, who is clearly a tragic hero. 1984 presents an imaginary future where a totalitarian state controls every aspect of people’s lives, even their thoughts.
Readers are often angered by the ending of 1984 because of Winston’s betrayal of his previous life for the acceptance of the party. This is a semi-appropriate ending because of the impossibility of going against the party because of their total control of all people’s lives through the use of fear, which had not been accomplished by any authoritarian regime before the rise of the party. The novel’s ending was semi-appropriate because it stresses a society where all people are equal, but on the contrary makes it so that people must give up all of their freedoms and have all of their aspects of life controlled to conform to the standards of the society. The party controls people’s lives off of three founding philosophies “war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. (Orwell 26) War is peace refers to the fact that if the party always frames another enemy to direct all hate towards.
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a lower-party member who has grown to resent the society he is living in and starts to lose his rationality and sanity due to the restrictions of society. "And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned - imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations - not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive. "(p.130) Winston clearly hated the Party and all he wants is liberty of his actions and ideas. He will fight his hardest to revolt and stop the Inner Party’s “dictatorship.” To keep all of this in order, and to avoid revolts, the Inner Party has to think of creative and smart ways to control the public. This is done by introducing orthodox methods in the minds of the Party members such as with childhood.
In the novel 1984 George Orwell uses imagery to portray the theme of a grotesque society in which the government is in total control. The citizens in this novel live in a constant fear of making a mistake and being punished by the ever so powerful government. Living in fear is usual in this totalitarian based book because of the amount of power the government holds over its citizens. Tele-screens, Posters and a new dictionary and thought police as well as the images of the filthy living space are all described and depict images in the readers mind to help deliver the theme. A total control government is conveyed in this novel through Orwell’s imagery.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and 1984 by George Orwell were written by men who witnessed war first hand on a global scale. Disturbed and frightened by what they saw, Huxley and Orwell both went on to write powerful pieces that illustrated their visions and fears of our future. By using carefully selected diction and imagery to illustrate their ideas, these men agreed that there would be a day when power would fall into the wrong hands, and future rulers would enslave the world to abide by their ideas and beliefs. Thus wiping out any form of democracy and voice. Great examples of this is when Orwell uses imagery to describe the Big Brother(much like Nazi Gestapo) and when Huxley uses imagery to describe the control of children and their births.
People lose pieces of themselves, and sometimes, they don’t even know it. They lose the piece that makes them who they are, their humanity and this is all because of totalitarian social control, which obviously is dehumanizing. In Orewell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, it is seen that totalitarian social control is in fact, dehumanizing. There are some unanswered questions regarding these two novels, “Are these works warnings about the dehumanization effects of totalitarian social control?” It is believed that it is a warning. All forms of social control led to dehumanization in both 1984 and Brave New World, from monitoring telescreens, to the use of soma.
Justify through textual evidence. The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell stresses on the totalitarian regime of Big Brother and the Inner Party. In Orwell’s novel, 1984, he warns us about the mind control of Big Brother and how the power of the government is continuously rising over the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom and ‘rectifying’ the past. There are three sacred principles of ingsoc, these are newspeak, doublethink, and mutability of the past. One of the issues raised in 1984 is the idea that history is mutable or changeable, that truth is what the Party deems it to be, and that the truths found in history are the bases of the principles of the future.
In George Orwell’s best read novel, “1984,” an official named Winston Smith, who lives in a totalitarian government ruled by what Orwell called, “Big Brother.” The term is used for their omniscient leader, “Big Brother.” In relevance to today’s world, specifically speaking, we would not use that term of sense for our government ruler. There are certain similarities and differences between Oceania and our American society. In order to compare the two societies, here are examples from what Orwell would say about our century and his novel. Firstly, the term “Big Brother,” in “1984”, was used as a title for their leader, our ruler, etc. What they are commonly known as.
Brian Yao Ms. Smith AP English III (9/10) 20 December 2012 “1984 Essay” In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, O’Brien substantiates his arguments against Winston by using rhetoric devices such as logos, ethos, and pathos. O’Brien supports his claim by first stating an observation that he has concluded about Winston. He tells him, “If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man. Your kind is extinct; we are the inheritors. Do you understand that you are alone?