The Dystopian Novel 1984

As Eric Hoffer once said, “The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.”{This quote defines} In the dystopian novel 1984, written with the purpose of warning readers about totalitarian government, and how can it affect society. 1984 expresses a wide variety of examples presenting the corrupt state, using manipulative propaganda, changing history , and torture then come to understand the dangers of an unethical government.

Official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political effect. This is called propaganda. The party bombardes the society of Oceania with false information designed to overwhelm humans mind capacity flooding the fabricated information in order to take over the thoughts for the individual mind set. A giant telescreen within every citizen's room blast a constant marathon over-and-over describing the hardships and inadequacies of the party’s victorious winnings. These telescreens also monitor behaviour,and everywhere they go citizens are always being shadowed by the big man behind the screen, “big brother”. The statement is clarified during the beginning of the book “Big Brother is Watching you.” (Pg.4). It’s not only the adult who are being manipulated, the party is also pledged guilty as they also create an organization called the “Junior Spies”. This organization alters children reality turning family to the police whether or not for instance they are being disloyal towards the party. Overall this proves that the government in the novel 1984 is very corrupt.

Although the party manipulating...

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...trols the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past..” (Pg.260) The Party has complete political in the present, enabling it to control the way in which its subjects think about and interpret the past. Controlling the past, the Party can justify all of its actions in the present. Controlling past history of the innocent proves that a totalitarian government can have many dangers.

Overall, Orwell portrays the perfect totalitarian society, the most extreme realization imaginable of a modern-day government with absolute power. In the dystopian novel 1984, written with the purpose of warning readers about totalitarian government, and how can it affect society. As the reader comes to understand through Winston’s eyes, The Party uses a number of techniques to control its citizens, each of which is an important message of its own in the novel.