Argumentative Essay On 1984 By George Orwell

Bachman, Sophia
1984 Summative Essay As Thomas Jefferson once stated, “No government can continue good but under the control of the people.” The government controlling every aspect of your life, watching your every move, and judging you every second, that is what the people in the novel 1984 are experiencing everyday. The definition of a totalitarianism government is absolute control by the state or a governing branch of a highly centralized institution. The totalitarian government headed by Big Brother in the novel 1984, has control over everything in everyone’s life. George Orwell uses the theme of totalitarianism to warn that if the government has too much control over people and if something does not change, human rights and individual
The novelist describes the impact that Big Brother has on the people. He writes, “But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone’s eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately” (pg.18). This shows the hard impact that Big Brother had on people. Orwell is warning us that if there is no change in the government we will soon face a totalitarian government with harsh rule and suppression, like the government in 1984 and Big Brother. Another example of how the author uses Big Brother to show the effects of a totalitarian government is with the posters. Winston remarks, “It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran” (pg. 9). George Orwell is using big brother to show that if change does not occur within the government we will eventually be in a state where we have no freedoms and we cannot do anything with being watched and controlled all of the time. Big brother is used in 1984 to be a symbol of of the totalitarian government. Orwell uses him throughout the book to warn the harsh leadership of a totalitarian government that could soon face us in the real
Orwell uses technology in the novel 1984 to show the dangers of how technology can be used to control the people in a totalitarian government. Through technology the government has too much control over the people and the government is able to use technology to limit freedoms. For example, the government in 1984 uses the technology of surveillance to control the people and limit their freedoms. Orwell describes the atmosphere in the novel, he describes, “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 was scrutinized” (pg. 10). This shows how the people of the novel were constantly under surveillance and never had anything that was private to them. The government in 1948 uses surveillance to limited the freedom of people by control and watching their every move. Orwell also used “Two Minutes Hate,” to show how the government uses technology to control the people. Orwell explain “Two Minutes Hate,” as, “The next moment a hideous grinding screech, as some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the