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 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."3 In the event that you were caught, saying or doing anything against the party's wishes, your life could be wiped out totally. This was apparent when one of the workers does not show up for work. "Syme had vanished. A morning came, and he was missing from work, a few thoughtless people commented on his absence. On the next day no one noticed...Syme had ceased to exist, he had never existed."4 By limiting the freedoms of its citizens, a totalitarian government can have total control over every person,...