Examples Of Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell
1) How far and in what ways are totalitarianism and human societies criticised by Orwell, and is this meant as a warning for the population in the post-war period?
2) Orwell criticises totalitarianism in his novel by creating in it a society that cumulates all the disadvantages from different regimes throughout history. Therefore, this author manages to denigrate human societies in general as well as the government of totalitarian regimes through the way his main character, Winston Smith, feels about the Party.
He also manages to give us an overview of the human societies throughout history and their structure, without omitting to implicitly criticise them.
Why does Orwell write this novel, full of under-statements and direct references …show more content…
This chapter is in fact a book within a book. Its title is ‘The Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism’. In this chapter, Orwell looks at, amongst other themes, society, how it functions and how it is structured. He treats this theme by explaining aspects of the fictional world of 1984, but he does not stop there. It is made explicit that, by criticizing and explaining the world he creates in his novel, Orwell makes references to the real world both of today and throughout history. A point made in this chapter is that democratic societies, who affirm they are based on equality and respect of human rights, are no better than dictatorships, because either way there are too many aspects of them which remain unequal. One of these aspects is that “since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle and the …show more content…
One of these references is the omnipresence of telescreens throughout the city. They “represent the fact that in totalitarian regimes such as Hitler’s or Stalin’s, the population was severely supervised by the government.” This criticism is taken quite far and also takes the form of Goldstein’s book, which I have talked about previously. Not only does Orwell make references to the real world, he also exaggerates facts. An example could be the thought
2) Orwell criticises totalitarianism in his novel by creating in it a society that cumulates all the disadvantages from different regimes throughout history. Therefore, this author manages to denigrate human societies in general as well as the government of totalitarian regimes through the way his main character, Winston Smith, feels about the Party.
He also manages to give us an overview of the human societies throughout history and their structure, without omitting to implicitly criticise them.
Why does Orwell write this novel, full of under-statements and direct references …show more content…
This chapter is in fact a book within a book. Its title is ‘The Theory and Practice of Oligarchic Collectivism’. In this chapter, Orwell looks at, amongst other themes, society, how it functions and how it is structured. He treats this theme by explaining aspects of the fictional world of 1984, but he does not stop there. It is made explicit that, by criticizing and explaining the world he creates in his novel, Orwell makes references to the real world both of today and throughout history. A point made in this chapter is that democratic societies, who affirm they are based on equality and respect of human rights, are no better than dictatorships, because either way there are too many aspects of them which remain unequal. One of these aspects is that “since the end of the Neolithic Age, there have been three kinds of people in the world, the High, the Middle and the …show more content…
One of these references is the omnipresence of telescreens throughout the city. They “represent the fact that in totalitarian regimes such as Hitler’s or Stalin’s, the population was severely supervised by the government.” This criticism is taken quite far and also takes the form of Goldstein’s book, which I have talked about previously. Not only does Orwell make references to the real world, he also exaggerates facts. An example could be the thought