1984 Similarities Between George Orwell And Society

The unimaginable has happened. We now live in a world where reality star Donald Trump is president. For a few, this is a godsend. Finally, someone to facilitate the policies nobody before would. For the majority, this is quite possibly one of the worst things to have ever happened to the progress of the United States. People are scared. This fear is being showcased on the bestsellers list, as 1984 by George Orwell is climbing the charts yet again. There are alarming similarities between the society created by Orwell and the society we are currently living in, just a few being the censorship of news and Winston rewriting news, the normalization of both the Oceania government’s lies and Donald Trump’s, and him having his very own version of the
He made many changes to the presidency plan on the White House website previously created by Barack Obama, the most notable being removal of the page entitled “Climate Change”. News reporting websites have also been given specific instruction not to release any news pertaining to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is incredibly dangerous, because climate change is a real problem that cannot be ignored. Trump is genuinely controlling the news. Winston’s job is to rewrite the news. The government tells him what to write, and immediately history is rewritten. As Orwell states, “Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones” (39). There is a clear correlation here between controlling the news. Big Brother decides what content the public reads about history, and Donald Trump is attempting to permit the public to read only what he deems
While his Twitter account is a mess today, the hate goes all the way back to his rallies during the election. In fact, in October during the election campaign, Donald Trump literally held a Two Minutes Hate where he allowed the crowd to scream and yell at the press for two minutes. There is no basis behind Trump’s words, he simply says them to get his followers riled up and unite against something they all hate, which are things like illegal immigrants, abortion, and pretty much every minority. This is exactly what happens in Oceania, where everyone is encouraged to go crazy in anger in response to the rebel Goldstein. As Orwell illustrates, “The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate…” (211). Citizens pour their every emotion into the Two Minutes Hate, and it unites them with Big Brother, as yelling about the things they mutually hate unites our citizens with Donald