Dystopia In 1984
1984
If the state or a man has absolute power over his citizens it has always been a mystery what the consequences are going to be. George Orwell shows us one of the dystopian results in his book 1984. He created in his book a world devastated by nuclear war and poverty, where the West has fallen under the spell of a totalitarian socialist dictator, Big Brother. A political demagogue and religious cult leader all rolled into one, Big Brother's power is so strong that no one may know if he even exists. People have no priorities and no individual rights. The state has such a power that it can even change people’s ideologies.
One of the book’s main ideas is Thought control. Big Brother's Ingsoc Party has perfected the uses of high technology to monitor the …show more content…
What I mean is that, Big Brother represses the feelings of its citizens with abstracting from pleasures. For instance, in the movie we see that people have not private lives. They cannot do things which can relax themselves. By doing like that Big Brother can easily control the citizens because without calming down people can not think clearly and create new ideas. So people who live in Oceania cannot realize the lies that are told by Big Brother and as a result they become brainless slaves of the state. For example, we can understand it from the scene in which state shows a propaganda film in a big room. Normally in this film nothing is real. However, people are so poor and they need something to hold on, they speak and shout together as they are only one organism. We see the same example in the nature, too. Some fish species always move together, they make the same movements and if we see them from outside they seem like a individual fish. It is very easy to control such a group because of the fact that there are only a few different behaviour-types, in other words, as they move together they must follow some general instincts to not spoil
If the state or a man has absolute power over his citizens it has always been a mystery what the consequences are going to be. George Orwell shows us one of the dystopian results in his book 1984. He created in his book a world devastated by nuclear war and poverty, where the West has fallen under the spell of a totalitarian socialist dictator, Big Brother. A political demagogue and religious cult leader all rolled into one, Big Brother's power is so strong that no one may know if he even exists. People have no priorities and no individual rights. The state has such a power that it can even change people’s ideologies.
One of the book’s main ideas is Thought control. Big Brother's Ingsoc Party has perfected the uses of high technology to monitor the …show more content…
What I mean is that, Big Brother represses the feelings of its citizens with abstracting from pleasures. For instance, in the movie we see that people have not private lives. They cannot do things which can relax themselves. By doing like that Big Brother can easily control the citizens because without calming down people can not think clearly and create new ideas. So people who live in Oceania cannot realize the lies that are told by Big Brother and as a result they become brainless slaves of the state. For example, we can understand it from the scene in which state shows a propaganda film in a big room. Normally in this film nothing is real. However, people are so poor and they need something to hold on, they speak and shout together as they are only one organism. We see the same example in the nature, too. Some fish species always move together, they make the same movements and if we see them from outside they seem like a individual fish. It is very easy to control such a group because of the fact that there are only a few different behaviour-types, in other words, as they move together they must follow some general instincts to not spoil