Role Of Totalitarianism In George Orwell's 1984

George Orwell’s 1984, is a novel that depicts a future under the control of a totalitarian government. Orwell had many major warnings to readers based off of the historical developments of communism during the age of the cold war as well as Nazism. My argument is that totalitarianism is Orwell’s major warning to readers. This is because this story gives readers in 1949 a representation of the possibility of a government with absolute power in the near future. A government with the power of manipulation and censorship. The government is known as the Party in London, in the nation of Oceania which used to be England. The party controls everything using censorship to manipulate its citizens. It prohibits free thought, sex, and the expression of individuality. The
This book portrays the dangerous possibilities of a totalitarian government. Censorship and manipulation are the main ways of achieving and maintaining the Party’s absolute power. They took away the freedom of thought as well as the freedom to express individuality. Not only did they want full control of the people, they also wanted full control of their minds. Manipulation was both physical and psychological with the uses of propaganda and torture. Censorship went as far as changing the history books and creating a new language. George Orwell wrote this book in the late forties after World War II during the age of the cold war. His warnings about government monitoring are true in todays society because of how all of our devices can be tracked. Even the Party in this book compares to the communist government in North Korea because of how the citizens in both governments are exposed to propaganda and don’t know the true reality. Its startling that some of these predictions came true but fortunately the most negative things never did happen. If totalitarianism is not opposed, then this could become a reality in the