George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Analysis

Usually in society the greatest fear of any man are those who sit above their heads. In other words the people with the power to do anything are the people who we all fear. Inside the gloomy world of Nineteen Eighty-Four this idea is taken to the extreme circumstances where the elite of the one-sided political party has dominated everything and controlling everything. Yet surprisingly some ideas made this unwanted society has already happen in our time line.

Many historians agree that a sense to search the unknown has always been a laying foundation for civilization. Organized religion has at times given people hope, and yet abused its power down its course of history. In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four all religions had become the enemies of the party, until finally the political party itself becomes a religion. For an example in the book, during the frequent propaganda program one woman on page 16 “tremulous murmur that sounded

Another thing that makes up on how we do things are the past events we have done. Our past can help us learn from our mistakes, and we try to imitate other people’s success. In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four the government twists history into the illusion of infallibility. On page 34 the party states “Who controls the past…controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” This is evident that even the party admits that they have practiced revisionism in a historical sense. We can see this happening within our own country. Many southern states in the United States today have used textbooks that looks at the Civil War, and looks at slavery as a minor issue. Some of our textbooks even say that we won the War of 1812 and completely ignores the events that actually happen like the failed invasions of Canada. Clearly we can see history being written in our time and in the fictional world of Orwell. May we all do everything we can to prevent becoming a dystopian