Totalitarianism In George Orwell's Novel 1984

Totalitarianism of the East During the 1930s Hitler 's charismatic personality helped him quickly rise to power. In response George Orwell wrote his novel 1984 to express his fear of “a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another” because he believed that was “the direction in which we [were] actually moving” (“George Orwell 's Letter on Why He Wrote '1984 '”). Orwell 's novel 1984 displays the totalitarianism of the East by showing the reader how Oceania wields all power, how they monitor everyone and how they control mass media as a warning to what could happen if communism spread outside of Hitler 's Germany. Oceania and Hitler 's Germany share the same party ideology. They are both controlled

By having the final say of what information came in and out of their country they controlled the knowledge of all their citizens. In the novel the ministry of truth, where Winston works, plays a huge role in the control of mass communication. In the beginning the reader learns that the ministry of truth “concerns itself with news, entertainment, education and the fine arts,” however it is not until later that the actual responsibility of the employees there is revealed (Orwell 8). In actuality it is not their responsibility to distribute and organize everything, it is their job to alter anything that may contradict what the government said in the past or predicted for the future. In one instance the reader witnesses Winston creating a document on an Oliver Ogilvy whom never existed, but Winston points out “a few lines of print and a couple faked photographs would soon bring him into existence” (Orwell 42). Throughout the novel Winston also struggles with his memory of three men who had vanished for a year and "then had suddenly been brought forth to incriminate themselves in the usual way" (Orwell 65). He distinctly remembers this event because for "once in his life he had possessed- after the event- concrete, unmistakable evidence of an act of falsification" (Orwell 64). However, Winston did not do anything because by the time he tried to point this out he would be vaporized and in