1984

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Nineteen Eighty-Four Essay

Dystopian governments in nowadays are acclaimed for dictating the entire lives of all its citizens, and everything in between instead of following the principle rules of Utopia which is referred to as an ideal and desirable society that is responsible for insuring the basic necessities for healthy human development for all of its willing individual citizens. The dystopian novel 1984, which was written by George Orwell in the year of 1948 has well represented a typical totalitarian government. In the novel, Big Brother, the dictator of Oceania, forces the citizens to believe in the doctrine of authoritarianism even though the facts behind the lies are brutal. Likewise, Guy Delisle, a French Canadian animator also describes his journey in North Korea in his own graphic novel Pyong Yang. The novel Pyong Yang truly reflects the miserable lives of the ordinary North Korean citizens whom do not belong to the ruling class. In short, the dangers of authoritarian society that is controlled by privileged party elite have been informed successfully by George Orwell ...

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