1984 Orwell
George Orwell's book 1984 has 4 warnings that he states throughout the book. Orwell is afraid of a government getting too powerful and he expresses this fear through Winston. One major warning sign that is prevalent throughout the book is the totalitarian government. A group that runs the government called the Party. This group is all powerful because it is run by a group whose major purpose is to gain and keep power. The Party's methods are efficient and very harsh. They inflict harsh punishment on anyone who commits an independent act, such as having an affair, and thinking against the normal ways. This government is so powerful that it not only controls the present and everything ...
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and have a family. But they still do not have freedom; the government still keeps track of their actions. "Proles and animals are free." Since the Proles make up 85% of the population in Oceania, the government had to give them some freedom or they would rebel. This is also why the government's motto is ignorance is strength. As long as the people do not realize what is going on, then the government will continue to have complete control over them. The head figure of this all-powerful government is Big Brother, which Winston is unsure of his existence. When he asks O'Brian if Big Brother really exists, the response was "You don't exist." Orwell by describing this terrible all powerful government that controls, what you eat, where you live, what you do, who you marry, etc. is trying to warn the reader against letting any government get this powerful. He tells the reader this through Winston, "the last (thinking) man in Europe." Another motto of the Party is War is Peace. ...
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newspeak. The government did this in order to have more power over the people. The Party invented this new language so that eventually English will not be used anymore, and then no one would be able to read anything written in English; such as, books, which are completely illegal, or old historical documents not changed. This was created to meat the needs of INGSOC, or English Socialism. When it eventually comes universal, in about 2050, nobody will be able to commit a thought crime because there will be no vocabulary to describe it. Words in newspeak had single meanings, free means without. So the word free did not mean freedom, politically or intellectually this meaning did not ...
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