1984: a look at totalitarianism
In the novel 1984, George Orwell demonstrates how one governing body can manage to manipulate a whole country such as Oceania. Throughout our past we have seen totalitarian governments take absolute control over their countries. Some examples of leaders of countries that have demonstrated a totalitarian regime are Hitler, Stalin and Castro. Totalitarianism is a manipulative dictatorship that strives to limit the freedoms, abolish individuality, and brainwash its citizens. Would life be worthwhile without any freedoms? In 1984, the people of Oceania are deprived of their freedoms. They are at all times being watched and listened to by the telescreens. "The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made above a low whisper would be picked up by it... He could be seen as well as heard."1 You were not allowed to speak your mind in Oceania as the Thought Police could plug into your individual wire at any given time. You learned to live by instinct. "Assumptions that every sound you made was overheard."2 You had to hide away from the telescreens in order not to be seen. Winston had an alcove in his apartment that gave him the ability to write secretly in his diary, therefore providing him
"The horrible thing about Two Minute Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but it was impossible to avoid joining in. In this way every prediction made by the party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct. If they are discovered doing so, even unwittingly, they are arrested. A morning came, and he was missing from work, a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. "It's (the party's) real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Totalitarian governments have many ways of brainwashing their citizens, and by doing so can maintain complete control over them. with a small freedom that had to stay hidden "by sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen. "8 In the country Oceania, party members participate in the Two Minute Hate. "5 Members of the party are not allowed to speak their minds. No pleasure was to be obtained through sexual intercourse. "10 The totalitarian party in Oceania is able to brainwash its people into believing anything the party wishes them to believe. They are not to show any negative thoughts about the party.
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