In 1949, George Orwell released his novel 1984. The novel attempts to give a picture of what modern society would be like in thirty-five years. It is not a pleasant view, since the story is about the struggle of an individual, Winston Smith, and his ability to retain his human spirit, sanity, and freedom in a fiercely automated and strictly controlled society. Its setting is a futuristic world of a dystopia called Oceania. The world of Oceania is being governed by the Party and a supernatural being known only as Big Brother. The Party and Big Brother are maintaining order in Oceania, but they do so by taking away individual freedoms and luxuries from the people.
             The novel's major theme is the horror of totalitarianism. The entire novel paints an appalling picture of what a fanatical, state-controlled society can take away from and do to an individual. A minor theme in the novel is that the two main characters found love even though it was against regulations of the Party. At the opening of the novel, both Winston and Julia are depicted as lonely, isolated, and miserable beings. This is a state of existence Big Brother encourages. Their love is short lived, however; when their actions are discovered, they are severely punished.
             The Party seeks to control the entire nation of Oceania along with the rest of the world. They are relentlessly at war with the other two superpowers, Eurasia and Eastasia, who have authoritarian governments as well. "Since about that time, war had been literally continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war" (Orwell 31). Even though at constant war, no individual superpower ever seems to come out as the victor. No matter what country Oceana has an alliance with, war continues to wage on throughout this depressing, gloomy tale.
             The Party not only made every day a struggle politically, but they also made it a struggle physically. He awakes every morning...