I984 to briefly sum it up is a novel of a utopian society gone terribly wrong. The novel is based around a character named Winston who is a citizen of Oceania and a member of the outer party. To understand who Winston is you must understand the demographics of Oceania. Oceania is divided among 4 social groups: the enemy, The proles, the outer members, and the inner party members. As much as 80% of the population (The proles) is undocumented and not even cared and seen as a threat to the ruling class. The remaining 19% are Outer Party members and the last 1% are the inner party members. The enemy is any other nation that the inner party is at war with.
The inner party is a very dangerous class of society. Oceania has prompt them as
demigods and the rule every aspect of a outer party member's life. They used all methods
of control. Propaganda, spies, "Newspeak", and the notorious thought police. The
preferred method of control however are the telescreens. The run all day and all night,
uninterrupted propaganda that can only lower in volume just a bit to allow a subliminal
message echo in your head through sleep and the little dozes throughout the day. Winston
hates the party and anything associated with them. The party has even gone as far to
outlaw sex and turn children into spies that would turn their own parents in. The novel
starts off with Winston waking up to a decayed world. Coughing, he lifts himself to a sit
and smokes a government cigarette and a drink of Victory Gin. That is his world, his duty
to the party and nothing else. He is a slave with an insignificant role tothe party.
George Orwell wrote the novel to show society what it could become if things kept
getting worse. The first paragraph of the book tells the reader of the "swirl of gritty
dust....The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats." Just from these few lines
Orwell makes it clear that the...