Utopia In George Orwell's 1984

In the year of 1949, George Orwell saw a possible future from his reflection of the totalitarian regimes of World War II and experience in Spain as well as Russia, especially with Stalin. This would culminate into the novel known as 1984, in which the Party and their leader – Big Brother – have complete control of the nation known as Oceania, where everyone is under constant surveillance by the Thought Police. The story is set in London which has decayed just as much as the people’s souls and minds, shown as a “negative utopia”. Just before the end of the novel, the protagonist known as Winston Smith is being tortured by the Party operative O’Brien until he adheres to the Party’s mentality, admits crimes he has not even committed, broken inside, and has only “love” for Big Brother. The government wants completely control and so must assert their power upon people such as Smith. So this is where the motif known as doublethink becomes truly clear. It is the idea where one believes one idea yet another at the same time which contradicts it as with a lie and believing it is not a lie showing conviction as if it were true. Now, given is another example is where Smith is tortured which is the Ministry of Love. Here O’Brien tells Smith, “Reality exists in the human mind, and …show more content…
“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past” must than hold true. The past affects the future and so if in the present, the past is rewritten then the future is altered, as then those in the present can gain something from a rewritten past. This shows the power of manipulation in which the Party has over their people as the idea of rebellion is a crime and so hope is not even dim in the practically perfect totalitarian