Totalitarian Government in George Orwell´s 1984

In the novel 1984, by George Orwell he writes about the dangers and at the possibilities of what a totalitarian government could possibly be like. He confronts us with a dystonic world with no liberty or privacy. Big brother, the all-powerful has total control over everything, including people lives, education and way of living. In the novel everyone is always in constant fear, paranoia, nervousness of been exposed, arrested and vaporized. Vaporization is a form of torture used by Big Brother to reeducate a person they deemed as the guilty on how to be a proper and loyal citizen. Which is later used on Winston Smith for deifying Big Brother?

There is a quite a lot of relevance and connection to our world and Orwell novel that is displayed daily. We can start with the United States where as in the novel; the brother hood uses tele-screens and hidden microphones across the city to monitor its member’s daily lives to make sure that every citizen acts accordingly. The United States use surveillance cameras, wire taps, and satellite and other sorts of means to monitor our citizen on a constant day to day basis due to fear of terrorist attacks and other tragedies from happening. But I think it's a great way to induce public safety for the general population where most Americans see it as a wrongful way to maintain public order.

In other parts of the world such as North Korea where totalitarianism is in full effect in everyone’s daily lives. It is one of the countries who are sometimes referred to as the hermit kingdom, where they willing wall themselves off, either metaphorically or physically, from the rest of the world. As Big Brother controls the nation and is seen as the leader in the book, the Kim family has been in charge of Ko...

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...ian country to survive and prosper. But we would always fail due to the fact it is in our human nature to be corrupt, pick on the weak and abuse the power that is given to us.

This novel is widely read and important today due to the fact for one, the year it was published (1948) which was the start of “The Cold War”, which first appeared in a 1945 essay by the English writer George Orwell, called "You and the Atomic Bomb". He's way of writing a fiction novel can be perceived as if he was writing a futuristic non-fiction novel about how bad communism or totalitarian rule can be based on how future dictators and other political leaders would treat there citizen later on along the years after his death. It also dares the reader to question their own government system. Are they being treated fairly as a citizen and are their freedoms being upheld to the best conditions.