Essay On 1984 Power Of Government

The government in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, forces its citizens to repress all of their natural impulses which leads to rebellious behavior by some of the citizens and a brainwashed state by others. The government in Orwell’s novel is a totalitarian style government with the ultimate leader being Big Brother and the enforcers of Big Brother being the party. The party has banned almost everything from the citizens of Oceania including but not limited to writing, thinking, showing feelings, and having sex. They banned all of these natural impulses because of the belief that acting upon all of these will lead to the citizens thinking which could potentially result in a revolution. Many of the citizens followed all of the party’s rules but some did not, 1984 focuses on Winston who did not follow the rules of the party and rebelled against them.
The proles were the poor underclass, they had music and freedom. They were expected to live, work, have children, and die. The proles had music, which no other group in this novel had, this could reflect on how the proles had a culture because the government has not taken that away from them yet. The party lets the proles be because they do not matter to the government because they are not a risk for them. The government can handle them so they do not oppress the proles. This goes back to what Winston said about the proles “if there is hope, it lies in the proles” (pg.69). Repression is a very important issue in George Orwell’s novel 1984. The citizens can not follow their natural impulses because of Big Brother and the party fearing that if they did they would be a danger to their power. Overall Orwell was trying to prove that a totalitarian society does not work because there will always be someone that does not fit into the system and that a government can never fully take away a person's natural