Examples Of Totalitarianism In George Orwell's '1984'

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The book 1984 by George Orwell is a book about a person who is an outer party member that works for the government, the Ministry of Truth which controls and rewrite the history of the society, and in order to escape the tyranny of their leader “Big Brother”, Winston decided to write a diary about his thoughts, but in their society this is an act that can lead to death. They live in a country that has a totalitarian government that controls everything, in which they have “telescreens” exist to watch and listen to the people, the people are trying to live a human life in inhuman circumstances. The Party that controls the country are capable of everything, because they have the power based on hate to control the people, they have ministries where …show more content…

But O’brien a party member explains to Winston that “We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skill. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation- anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth- century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make laws of Nature” (Orwell 274). According to this quote, O’brien explains how the party can do whatever they wish to do, and if you read along the book it talks about how they brainwashed Winston and make him believe other things. This evidence can be relating to the way north korea is controlled is through brainwashing the people’s way of thinking. North Koreans believe that their leader Kim jong-un is a god and this relates to 1984 because the similarities are the same, the oceanian people from the novel follows “Big Brother” as perceives him as a god. In this case, the people in the novel and North Korea are afraid of having to think for themselves or think freely because the act can lead to worst treatment, this individuals’ are living through fear and terror, being controlled through this distress …show more content…

Also the technologies made by the Party is used to torture, brainwash the people, and control their way of living. The Party created a surveillance technology for security purposes to watch the people and arrested if seen doing an act unabiding the law created for the people. Throughout the novel it talks about how “big brother is watching”, and this shows how the people are inspected and observed by the people of the Party and the surveillance that is arranged to control the population. On our recent technologies surveillance has already exist and used by everyone, to stop crime and for better purposes. With the advancement of the technology of today’s society, it can be close to the world of Big brother but the way technology is made and is utilized leads towards success of the people and offers a better way of living, but in the novel the technologies are operated for different purposes,such as, weapons, rewriting history, and etc… From the article “Long Beach Police use 400 Cameras Citywide to Fight Crime” by Richard Winton, it talks about on how the Long Beach Police have eyes everywhere to watch crime activities and to respond to crime activities. Also this surveillance are utilized for law enforcements to synchronize data with real time videos from anywhere. As reported by Police Chief Jim McDonnell, “it will help us to respond to crimes better and

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