George Orwell 1984 Analysis
David Phan-Nguyen
Hour. 7
Honor English
1984 Lit Analysis
How did the party use control to maintain the society? George Orwell’s 1984 is a novel about a totalitarian dystopian society where the people have no freedom, always on constant surveillance by “Big Brother” and are constantly being brainwashed. Where “no one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” In the novel 1984, George Orwell shows how the party uses control to maintain society and place fear upon the society. In 1984 the party uses fear, torture, the control over sex instinct, propaganda to control and maintain order in the society. The party does an outstanding job at controlling the society. One usage of control the party uses is the control of sex instinct. The party controls people's sex instinct to maintain their sexual intercourse. “The theory was that all men, whose sex instinct were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled.” The party is saying that men’s sex instincts were less controllable than that of a woman's making them a high likely chance for them to get corrupted by the filth they handled. The party controls sex instinct in men by hiring only girls to work in Pornosec rather than hiring men who will get corrupted if they handled the stuff. Another …show more content…
The use of propaganda increases people’s self esteem and makes them think the party is always right. propaganda has two types in 1984, one is doublethink and the other is doublespeak. “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” The party’s main slogan is an example of doublethink. The slogan is to convince the people that what they want, is what they have. The slogan makes the people believe that anything they want other than the government will only make them unhappy, this will make people not want to rebel against the party because they think the party’s ways are the right
Hour. 7
Honor English
1984 Lit Analysis
How did the party use control to maintain the society? George Orwell’s 1984 is a novel about a totalitarian dystopian society where the people have no freedom, always on constant surveillance by “Big Brother” and are constantly being brainwashed. Where “no one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.” In the novel 1984, George Orwell shows how the party uses control to maintain society and place fear upon the society. In 1984 the party uses fear, torture, the control over sex instinct, propaganda to control and maintain order in the society. The party does an outstanding job at controlling the society. One usage of control the party uses is the control of sex instinct. The party controls people's sex instinct to maintain their sexual intercourse. “The theory was that all men, whose sex instinct were less controllable than those of women, were in greater danger of being corrupted by the filth they handled.” The party is saying that men’s sex instincts were less controllable than that of a woman's making them a high likely chance for them to get corrupted by the filth they handled. The party controls sex instinct in men by hiring only girls to work in Pornosec rather than hiring men who will get corrupted if they handled the stuff. Another …show more content…
The use of propaganda increases people’s self esteem and makes them think the party is always right. propaganda has two types in 1984, one is doublethink and the other is doublespeak. “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” The party’s main slogan is an example of doublethink. The slogan is to convince the people that what they want, is what they have. The slogan makes the people believe that anything they want other than the government will only make them unhappy, this will make people not want to rebel against the party because they think the party’s ways are the right