Bryan Ku
Tyler Reeb
English 102
Sec. 8
22 October
2014
Blog#3
What does George Orwell's
short story, "1984" reveal about the people's life and society?
Thesis: In George
Orwell's novel, "1984," Winston Smith adventure through a society
where any decision he makes is the difference of life and death.
When society
becomes a totalitarianism, people will start to fear and wonder why they live
that life style. A lot of people will start to rebel and it will cause a revolution.
George Orwell'S novel, "1984," created a society where people are monitored and controlled using Big
Brothers ideas. Citizens cannot make their own ideas and relationships must be within
Big Brother's rules. The idea of "love" is viewed differently in
Oceania. Love is considered evil and never to be touched at. Their emotion are
always being monitored. According to George Orwell, "Today there were
fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, or deep or complex
sorrows"(30). When a person loses their will to express how they feel,
they lose what makes humanity. Fear has always been the main emotion to change
a way a person thinks. In 1800s, United States began to create a legal way to
have slavery. A lot of slaves are controlled by fear and mental abuse. This is
the same as Oceania because they both do not have the perks of making their own
decisions.
The society they live in is considered to be a dystopia. The
text states, "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is
strength"(Orwell, 4). When society is controlled by these type of rules,
people are slowly losing their humanity. During the 1970s, a lot of gangs were
formed and a lot of blood is shed. One of the larger gang is called "Crips".
They became a huge problem, because they did not have any fear when it comes to
killing. War against other gangs became a trill more than what it actually
represents. Everything that is happening with Oceania is a mixture of terrible
times in different countries all put into one society.
Work cited
Orwell, George, and Erich Fromm. 1984: A Novel. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1961. Print.
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