George Orwell's 1984

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George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four presents a negative picture, a society that is ruled by totalitarianism. The government that is created in the novel is ruled by Big Brother and that consist of three branches. “The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.” (Orwell 6). The main character Winston Smith does not accept the ideology of Big Brother. There are three states in the Novel Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. In the novel Orwell subscribes that Oceania is at war with Eastasia and alliance with Eurasia. Nationalism is really important in this novel because there is totalitarianism in the novel and people are racist. The effect of Nationalism in the novel is that there is no freedom in the city. Nationalism ruins everybody’s life’s because they go to work then they go home there is no social life. In the novel the Party controls everything and that is part of Nationalism. Freedom is a really important theme in the novel because the novel is based on how people do not have freedom in 1984. Freedom is something that is controlled by nationalism because the Party “Ingsoc” is controlling everything in the city and they do not let there citizens express there feelings and have friends. In the novel people do not have freedom because there are telescreens everywhere, so wherever you go somewhere there will be telescreens. The technology if telescreens started afte... ... middle of paper ... ... Winston is keeping on having flashbacks when about his childhood and how the world is different before the revolution. He can not forget the death of his mom because back then there is still privacy, love and friendship, and the members of the family stood by one another without needing to know the reason. In his flashback he also remembers that the citizens in Ocean where making boots about out of paper and half the population was barefoot. Before the revolution women had to work in the coal mines and children women had sold to the factories of the age of six. Also there where capitalist those people own everything, they use to lead the city so always had the good stuff, like the good food, a nice house and etcetera. Before the revolution it is the most terrible oppression, injustice and poverty.

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