Psychological Lens Essay On 1984 By George Orwell

1984 was written by George Orwell in the year 1949 and was finished four years after the end of the World War 2. Before the war broke out, there was a serie of events which had made tensions rise in Europe. Similarly, before America joined the war there were policies and talk of joining for a couple years. In the beginning of the novel, Winston Smith has purchased a notebook and as an act of rebellion, he writes different entries in it throughout the novel. He also begins an affair with a woman named Julia, an affair of which is strictly forbidden. These acts are subsequently followed by a clear stream of conscious thought about when he gets caught. This fatalism is a keynote in Winston Smith’s character. Using the psychological lens, it is

When people accept an outcome, the chance that anything different happens becomes slim. Orwell’s world was thrown upside down by totalitarian governments and mass genocides. Is the world today really any different? Have humans just accepted that war and oppression is part of life? If that really is true, our future continuously looks darker. Winston’s world he notes has “always been at war with Eurasia.” (Orwell 182). Violence appears in even the most pacifistic places and Orwell seems to see this. At the time of publishing, the world had just suffered through the second World War. The death tolls of both World Wars was unlike anything the world had ever seen. Orwell’s pessiistic views are not all together to shocking; the world he lived in had been devastated twice in a short time period. Many people today live in extreme poverty and oppression, there are still genocides taking place everyday, and mass numbers don’t even have clean water to drink. All of these things are happening today, people are suffering right now and we do nothing. Wars, genocides, poverty are all things created by humans, but they can be stopped by humans too. Orwell writes 1984 as a message to the masses; to the people who can rise together and do something to change the problems. The problems need to be solved by all of us