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  • Essay / The Dystopian Novel 1984 - 643

    As Eric Hoffer once said: "The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets." » quote defines} In the 1984 dystopian novel, written with the aim of warning readers about totalitarian government and how it can affect society. 1984 expresses a wide variety of examples presenting the corrupt state, using manipulative propaganda, changing history and torture, thus helping to understand the dangers of unethical government. Official government communications to the public designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political impact. This is called propaganda. The party bombards Oceanic society with false information designed to overwhelm the mental capacity of humans, flooding fabricated information in order to take control of the thoughts of the individual state of mind. A giant screen installed in each citizen's room broadcasts a constant marathon, describing the difficulties and inadequacies of the party's victorious victories. These TV screens also monitor behavior and wherever they go, citizens are always followed by the big man behind the screen, the “big brother”. The statement is clarified at the beginning of the book “Big Brother is Watching you”. (Page 4). It's not just adults who are being manipulated, the party is also found guilty as they also create an organization called "Junior Spies". This organization changes the reality of children by turning their families towards the police, whether or not they are disloyal to the party. Overall, this proves that the government in the novel 1984 is very corrupt. Although the party that manipulates... middle of paper ... controls the past, controls the future. Whoever controls the present controls the past. » (P. 260) The Party has a complete political present, which allows it to control how its subjects think and interpret the past. By controlling the past, the Party can justify all its actions in the present. Controlling the past history of innocent people proves that a totalitarian government can carry many dangers. Overall, Orwell depicts the perfect totalitarian society, the most extreme realization imaginable of a modern government with absolute power. In the 1984 dystopian novel, written with the aim of warning readers about the totalitarian government and how it can affect society. As the reader understands through Winston's eyes, the Party uses a number of techniques to control its citizens, each of which constitutes an important message in itself in the novel..