1984 By Yevgeny Zamyatin And Nineteen Eighty-Four Analysis

We (1952) by Yevgeny Zamyatin and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell both focus on post-revolution political thought, the rise of authoritarianism that had engulfed Europe in the early twentieth century and the organized, systematic removal of the individual. November, 1917, Bolshevik forces under the control of Lenin, seized control of Russia and gave birth what would be the eventual colossus of the Soviet Union. Led to believe they were leading the world into a new order a golden age in freedom, abandoning the medieval servitude of serfdom, they were force fed to the Russian proletariat. The belief was that the Russian people would be freed from their oppressive masters. However, this was seemingly all too idealistic as soon personal

meant to benefit the people, the destruction of language; shown with a greater presence of an authoritarian viewpoint in Nineteen Eighty-Four, with “newspeak”. The goal of “newspeak” is to surpass that of “oldspeak” or that of natural human language, as noted by “Don 't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” decreasing the creative, conscious, capacity of the people of Oceania, one might note that the language structure of Nineteen Eighty-Four isn’t newspeak, mainly to the benefit of the reader. It is, however noted by syme in Part I chapter V where he discusses the eventual evolution or instead, rather the atavism of language with “not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now” and therefore it is understood that the deconstruction of language is still in progress, used only in writing rather than that of speech. This, therefore allows one to understand the ability for Winston Smith and others to break free from their oppressive regime, as full control is still being formed. Conversely, Zamyatin’s most evident destruction of individuality is by destroying the traditional concept of names. Names within We are based on a single letter and a series of numbers, for example We’s

These were wished to be destroyed as an act of bringing peace; even if the overall consensus led to the survival of individual liberty. From, what one can take from the overall understanding of the texts and the societies in which they satirised, the use of symbolism is all too important in revealing the fact that all societies eventually stem from the same roots and that is the natural human instinct to provide a society that benefits all in the utilitarian understanding, and so as we view the rise of so called rebellion in We and Nineteen Eighty-Four, the rebellion of the self, in search of what it is that allows one to prosper efficiently. Orwell and Zamyatin’s goal was to present their texts in a way that could inform, the reader of what it is that makes them free, they were in one’s opinion not trying to directly represent either the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany, but instead their focus was to proliferate their understanding as to the way in which humanity might lead itself if it ignores either the popular opinion or their own conscience instead what is meant to be, for one to truly be free is to acknowledge the changes within society and adapt accordingly as to what they perceive to be their best possible