George Orwell’s 1984
Very rarely does an author write a novel that will be remembered for decades after his death. Very few writers are privileged enough to bring up even the slightest controversy over there book. When a writer is able to make the reader think, that is what sets him aside from other authors. This is the case for George Orwell and his famous controversial book, 1984. In his book, Orwell speculates on what he expects the future to be like in the year 1984. He wrote this book in 1949 as a warning to the public about totalitarianism. Orwell believed that if the world began to evolve down the road that it was headed towards, ultimately the world would become the world in his book. To do this Orwell writes about many key topics, topics not easily brought to mind. Have you ever considered where our power to withstand the pressures of conformity comes from? Perhaps it’s our power of imagination. How can we expect to imagine and dream if we don’t have the words to express ourselves? This is one of the questions George Orwell asks us in his book. By limiting the number of words we have to express ourselves we are limiting the mental capacity we have to think independently. With out individual ideas we can not change the world, and thus
The destruction of words isn’t all Orwell saw for the controlling of the mind which lay in the future. As he stated in his book, “The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons, … the party member, like the proletarian … has no standards of comparison… (and) to safeguard the infallibility of the party.” George Orwell, 1984, Pg.233. In other words, in order for civilians to believe fully in their government, they must never doubt its capabilities. For one thing they must never think things might be better if things were different. To do this the government must convince the people that things are better now than they were before. The easiest way to do this is to change the past. How might one do that? Well it’s very easy if you control all documents. If you can re-write history on paper and teach it to everyone, than no one is the wiser. You want proof? Just think of what your text books taught you in school, and now think about all the revisions made to them since you read them last. For years our government had us believing the great and kind Columbus discovered America, when really he was not kind and he did not “discover” America. The passage states that this is done to make sure the government is always in power. Not only do they have to change the history long in the past, but they also have to change the recent past. If the government predicts something will happen, and the p
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