The Explusion Of A Dystopia In George Orwell's 1984

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A Dystopia is defined as a futuristic, imagined universe in which there is oppressive, societal control. In a Dystopia the illusion of a perfect society is maintained through corporate, technological, or totalitarian control. Dystopias make a criticisms about a current trend, societal norm, or political system through an exaggerated worst-case scenario. Nineteen eighty-four is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. The society Orwell creates in 1984 has an awful appearance which is unlike any other predictions of our future. Orwell involves familiar things to humans in the story 1984 which makes us believe in the reality of this futuristic dystopia. Oceania is a terrible world in which every word and every thought of the people is censored. Freedom of speech in Oceania is unthinkable and everything goes against a Utopia. For example, when Winston is talking to Julia in his revolt against the party he says: “I hate Purity I hate goodness I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. In the story O’Brien states, “the arrests, tortures, and the executions will never cease.” It is evident in this quote that O'Brien is able to see Oceania's doom (Howe, 293). The dystopia Orwell presents in the story 1984 creates fearful trauma within its’ readers. In Orwell's narrative the future dystopia has reached a point of no …show more content…

In Oceania workers, known as the Proles, are assigned to a specific task. The Proles get off rather better than members of the outer party. For example: they are granted more privacy, the telescreens do not shout instructions at them or watch their every move, and the secret police rarely bother them. The state no longer fears the workers because they have become so powerless as a class. Oceania can no longer afford luxury, it cannot tolerate the existence of any group beyond the perimeter of its control,and it doesn’t stop insuring its power. (Rosenfeld,

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