Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell

English novelists and journalist George Orwell, born Eric Arthur Blair, is notable for some of the most poignant political fiction of the twentieth century. Orwell is one of the most revered and most frequently quoted authors. He is primarily known for his discernment of social injustice and disapproval of totalitarianism. Orwell addressed major political movements in his writing. In fact, the political consciousness depicted in his writing makes him a major literary writer regarding politics and an excellent example of a socialist advocate. One of Orwell’s eminent and distinguished novels is 1984, which is about totalitarianism, a dictatorship or regime that tries to control every aspect of life, including how people spend every minute of

The food is disgusting and there is never enough to eat. There is no clothing and there are dilapidated government buildings. There is a constant state of war and rockets exploding frequently. The Party is always watching what people do, and Big Brother is the leader of the Party. A Party member lives from birth to death under the eye of the Thought Police. The Thought Police have hidden cameras and microphones watching and listening to everything through telescreens, the compulsory television screens in every room that are used for surveillance. As Orwell describes, in 1984: There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized (Orwell

Winston lives a horrible, dreary existence. He is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Minitrue, or the Ministry of Truth, which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. Winston rectifies past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party assertions. “It was necessary…to rewrite a paragraph og Big Brother’s speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened… This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love”. In the Ministry of True, Winston notices his coworker O’Brien. O’Brien is a member of the Inner Party. Winston feels O’Brien is intelligent and rebellious like him, and has a yearning to be friends with him. A sense of mystery is centralized in the character of O’Brien, a powerful member of the Inner Party who deludes Winston into believing that he is a member of the Brotherhood, a revolutionary group against Big Brother to rebel against the Party. O’Brien inducts Winston into the Brotherhood. After some time, O’Brien invites him to his house and Winston gets excited because he believes wholesomely that O’Brien is part of a rebellion group. Winston visits O’Brien, where they confess that they are rebels. O’Brien also says that he is a rebel. Eventually, after