Dictatorship In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

A person’s individuality is integral towards dividending them from the conformists; renouncing that identity would only ensure consummate control upon the individual - a malleable onerous the government would cordially lap up. They are genteel to the dictator's ideology, and become uniform with the rest of the tyrant’s enslaved society - difficult to discern and ultimately, abject. In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith - the novel’s main protagonist - is deprived of free will and speech while under Big Brother’s ruling. George Orwell - the book’s author - intentionally subdues Winston within Big Brother’s dystopian society in order to illustrate the farcical of dictatorship. By condemning characters into a totalitarian government

During George Orwell’s time, he had spent a considerable amount of his life serving in Spain, where he witnessed the Spanish Revolution due to “the military coup of July 1936” (“The Orwell Wars” 54). Orwell had seen the corruption, but it allowed him the revelation that rebellions were necessary for change. Similarly, Orwell’s view is reflected back in Nineteen Eighty-Four as Winston notes how “if there was hope, it must lie in the proles” (69; pt.1, ch.7). Currently, Winston lives in a society where their despot, Big Brother, dictates their every move; he is unable to speak, let alone act, without the pressure of offending Big Brother. Although, Winston knows that the only way to overthrow Big Brother, is to enlist the aid of the proles - since they are the only group of people capable of transgressing beyond the laws. Winston puts faith into the proles because what he ultimately wants, is for a change - for the people and the government. He is tired of being restrained and forced to obliged to Big Brother. As Orwell continues to write about Winston’s attempts at a revolution, he depicts how it will only work if people are willing to rebel. When humanity is contingent on a revolt in order to achieve freedom, that is when change towards the government will be reached. Even Frodsham explains how "Orwell writes out of a passion for freedom" (139). With Orwell's novel, he is

After serving for the Indian Imperial Police, Orwell expanded on his experience through the short-essay, A Hanging (Woodcock 1). In the essay, Orwell witnessed the hanging of a Hindu prisoner and realized the “unspeakable wrongness, of cutting a life short” (1). Orwell was mortified at how easy it was for them to end a life. Correspondingly, in the book, Winston observes the skull-face man capitulate his family to the Thought Police by saying “You can take the whole lot of them and cut their throats . . . and I’ll stand by and watch it” (Orwell 237; 3. 1). The skull-face man is horrified and does not want the Thought Police to take him to Room 101, so he denounces his family instead (Orwell 237; 3. 1). By exposing people to terror, Orwell emphasizes the extent humans will embark on in order to salvage themselves. Humanity will turn against each other to survive; it is inevitable. When faced with a life or death scenario, “every human virtue is . . . suborned and extinguished” (Woodcock 1). In a tyrant governed society, morals are nonexistent as humans sacrifice each other as shown by