Totalitarian Government In 1984 By George Orwell

In 1984, George Orwell demonstrated what life was like to live under a totalitarian government, by showing the harsh realities that it can bring. In 1984 Orwell shows how controlling the government is and how the people lack freedom and how they are constantly told what to do. The people are televised and everything they do is recorded, from the time they wake up, to the time they go to sleep. They are never in private. They do whatever the government tells them without thinking. Controlled by the political leaders and their followers, ( The Thought Police ) they have no mind of their own.
The World of 1942 is headed by “ Big Brother. “ Big Brother is largely depicted in the city and on posters by the words “ Big Brother is Watching You. …show more content…
“ You have to live - did live, from the habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every movement scrutinized “ ( Orwell 3 ) The “ Thought Police “ are the ones who enforce all of the demanding rules set forth. Anyone who was thought to be thinking negatively or anyone doing something that did not follow the strict rules would be taken by them. With punishes as intimidating as death, nobody acted as besides the few rebels and the protagonist Winston Smith.
The control is endless. “ The government in 1984 controls every facet of the lives of the people. All individuals must participate in mandatory exercise, sex is meant to be joyless and only for the purpose of producing children, and marriages between individuals who seem to be attracted to one another are forbidden. Even the official language ( Newspeak ) is in the process of being rewritten to eliminate not …show more content…
The world had been exposed to the harsh realism of the terrible things that Nazi Germany had been doing. This would include performing Genocide, which is the mass murder of a single race. Hitler and his followers had brainwashed the German people into obtaining their full support in the war, and in the terrible inhumane things he was doing to the Jewish people. Hitler had used the Jewish people as a scapegoat, for all the trouble the World War 1 had brought them. The “ two minute plan “ in 1984 focuses on generating hatred of the enemies of the Party, particularly a man named Goldstein. He was described as having a Jewish face as well as a Jewish name. Orwell is obviously trying to include Hitler’s hate of the Jews and how they were blamed for the struggles. One of the main reasons Hitler rose to power was because of the terrible conditions Germany was left in after the first World War. They were in terrible debt with the entire World. They were forced to pay all the costs that the war brought, which led the country into a very deep depression. Many people were dying of hunger, famine, and disease. Crime ran amuck and with no proper leader, Germany was feeling the full effects of the Treaty of Versailles ( Treaty that had ended World War 1 ). Hitler had used this opportunity to take control of Germany, and when things started looking up for the