Controlling the Uncontrollable in 1984 Jim Rohn once said "It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go". He was implying that you can get through anything that is in your way and achieve what you set out to achieve. But this quote can relate to the system of control in 1984 if you read it in the exact opposite way. Take the wind to be natural human instincts, and with the ease it takes to literally change the direction of a sail, the party redirects those instincts to serve a purpose and help them achieve their goal. Moreover, the government is aiming for complete control but they realize that humans have tendencies that can’t be completely destroyed. In order to prevent these inclinations from causing trouble they are able to redirect them to help there cause. They recognized that children have a natural urge to rebel and so they created a system in which they could rebel against their parents to benefit the party instead of rebelling against it. They also realized humans have a natural sex drive that cannot be stopped and so they do not condone prostitution. Lastly, they realize that the government is giving the people many reasons to hate it, and so they provide a person to hate instead, and even specific times to do the hating. The government in George Orwell’s 1984 maintains control by redirecting innate tendencies such as rebellion in children, the human’s sex drive and even the ability to hate. The goal of the party was complete control, not just of the current day but for the rest of time. Children represent the future, if they are loyal to the party now they will continue to be that way for all of their lives and teach this loyalty to their children. However, child... ... middle of paper ... ... ensure that they do not hate big brother. Hating, especially in a world like the one depicted in 1984 is intrinsic so in order to make sure this hatred never lies on them, the party has provided the people with someone to hate. In pursuit of complete power the party needed to control human instincts that were unstoppable. They solved this problem by controlling these instincts thereby, changing them in a way that would benefit themselves. They controlled the natural rebellion in children by having them rebel against there parents. They curbed mans sex instinct by allowing prostitution and they redirected the peoples hatred. WIth these habits under control the party is able to achieve full power. Once the people had adjusted to these manipulations they were as easy to control as it is to change the direction of a sail and the party achieved their ultimate goal.
The party destroys all that is human of each individual, and brainwashes them to be nothing but an empty shell, like in comparison to a science-fiction robot, taking commands from the bidding of their master. However sometimes some people will crack, and will begin to be human again, however it is proven that the party would eventually catch up to them, permanently taking away their humanity. Throughout this process, the people become the party, and very much like a hivemind, the party controls the people, and the people are the party. The party controls every thought and bit of imagination of each and every individual through their
The novel, 1984, written by George Orwell, gives readers an insight to a possible frightening future where one government has complete and definite control of the people. But “control” might not be the term to describe such a rule. The Party dominates every aspect of life. There is not a single thing that is not under the Party’s rule. Feelings, history, language, statistics, and even human nature are submissive to the Party. They corrupt the mind so much that there is no longer a line that separates truth from a lie. Slogans are repeated through telescreens on a daily basis so the people are gradually forced to believe in illogical statements. Upon first glance, it may seem that a 1984 society is not even imaginable in the world we live in currently. But is it really logical to make such an assumption so quickly? Do we know that what we see on the news and read in our history textbooks is completely accurate? The Internet is one of the most powerful technologies our world has, consisting of an insurmountable amount of information, which is not always what it seems. Ultimately, there are so many things that we do not know, some of which is being held a secret from us. Modern day society shockingly has evidence of a transformation into a menacing 1984 society because of similar government actions and abuse of advanced technology.
Imagine the world we are living in today, now imagine a world where we are told who to marry, where to work, who to hate and not to love. It is hard to imagine right, some people even today are living in the world actually have governments that are controlling their everyday life. In literature many writers have given us a view of how life may be like if our rights as citizen and our rights simply as human beings. One day the government may actually find a way to control and brainwash people into beings with no emotions like they have in the book 1984 where they express only hate, because that’s what they have been taught by the party.
Fear, an emotion that takes control over you, forces you to act in a certain way and refrain from taking certain risks. Fear takes over us day after day. We fear dying, losing, and failing. In the world of 1984, fear not only controls people individually, but human kind as a whole. Leaders of the Inner Party, and the ultimate leader Big Brother controlled the people of Oceania by their fears. Through revolt, love, technology, and control over history Party members became restricted in every aspect of human nature.
In 1984 they have a perfect world that Big Brother has created. That everyone loves their leader. Also a perfect system where people have jobs in each section and it never changes. They have the total control of everyone. In their system they teach their children to love Big Brother to listen to what they say to hope that we win the war. If they don’t trust Big Brother they are beaten and kept for many months and sometimes years it depends on how long it take to make them love Big Brother. They control more of the people in the book. Orwell, George. 1984. Harlow: Pearson Education, 2003. Print. Divergent. Eagle Pictures, 2014.
The party in 1984 does all of these things in order to maintain complete power over the people of Oceania. Big Brother is able to have total power over the populace because the people of Oceania have been following and doing whatever Big brother says to do. This is not only an issue that needs to be looked at in the book, but all over the world. If people don’t revolt and stand up for what they believe in when they have the chance, they may end up in a society similar to the one in 1984. It is important for the government to not ever have complete and total power over the people, or they will abuse that power and it will be very hard for the people to successfully have a
George Orwell once said, “Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship” (217). This quote talks about how dictatorships are created by a means of revolutions. The Party rises to power by surpassing a former governmental system with their own revolution of Ingsoc and ultimately establishing a “dictatorship.” In George Orwell’s 1984 the reign of the Party by means of intense surveillance, restricting human rights, and ingenious psychological manipulatory actions suggests that freedom cannot be attainable in such a dystopia.
The party repress the whole population from living their lives as they wanted it to, they had no
1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses. 3 KEY POINTS:.. 1. What is the difference between a. and a Party Controls History 2.
...e diminished of their privacy and self esteem. We therefore can see a society of people who are depressed with no happiness of life, due to their great lack of freedom. People subjected to this form of treatment are nothing more than animals in a cage, when the Party's only goal is absolute endless and limitless power through control of people's minds. Though fictional, it is clear that there are distinct parallels between the government in 1984 and our current government.
...gressive the party’s policies were. They called for more democratic reforms along the same basis as the “New Nationalism” policy of the past.
In order for the Party to survive in 1984, the people of Oceania must be dehumanized. This cruelty is achieved by removing the people's freedom of thought and emotion, to the point of elimination of all love and connections to everything but the Party. George Orwell drew inspiration from regimes such as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. These units of government, including Oceania, live in a fragile balance of power, in which total control is necessary for survival.
In 1984 many government issues take place, for instance propaganda, secret police, brainwashing, and a wide manner of other devices to oppress their populations. The idea is to illustrate the dangers of totalitarian government whether it be Communist, Fascist, or otherwise. Totalitarianism is an imposing form of government which the political authority exercises control over all aspects of life such as their sex life, and health in general. “If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them” (George Orwell, 1984). Also psychological manipulation and mind control are a big controversy in 1984. Psychological manipulation is a social influence that moves towards the behavior of others through deceptive, or even abusive tactics. “And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain” (book 1, chapter 4). The author, Orwell wants the readers to think that the government monitors and controls everything that the humans do, and that basically everything that people do are against the law.
In George Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government blocks almost all forms of self-expression in order to assert its authority over the people. Those within the society who show signs of defiance against the set rules, even those who act unwillingly, are seen as a threat to the success of the regime are wiped from existence. In Orwell’s 1984, the government uses different forms of propaganda and brainwashing to achieve complete control of society for their own personal benefit.
Also, "Nineteen Eighty-four depicts the horrors of a well-established totalitarian regime of whatever type with great power and skill and force of imagination." (Davis). The book 1984 was written in futuristic setting to depict what a well established totalitarian government would look like. In the book, George Orwell crafted many ways of how big brother controls society and creates fear. In the book “Big Brother is watching you” (Orwell) is a common phrase that appears throughout the book. The phrase is creating fear in the society, it gives a sense that Big Brother and other party members are watching and he or she is not alone. As well keeping the people in the society in place, so he or she does not “rebel” against big brother or the party. The quote “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” (Orwell), to have freedom a person in the society has to believe that two plus two does equal four. While Big Brother and the party wants he or she to believe that two plus two equals five, the party wants the society to believe everything that they say, the party does