Examples Of Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell

1984 is a novel about totalitarianism and the fate of a single man who tried to escape from an overwhelming political regime. A totalitarian government is one that tries to control every aspect of life. How people spend every minute of their time even in private, who they can associate with and what they are allowed to say. A totalitarian government even tries to control what people think and what they believe. George Orwell wrote 1984 in the late 1940s. What he knew about totalitarianism was based on the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Those governments had come into being not that long before and they weren't well understood yet. I believe Orwell was trying to give his readers a clear picture of what life would be like if a free country like England were under totalitarian rule.
However, some people fail to realize that there are more similarities to the 1984 society and our society today than you think. There are many different ways to compare and contrast these ways of life. One of the first examples that might have shocked readers was the telescreens that every citizen had in their home. Yes, it is true that we do not have monitors following us every second of the day, but many people are probably unaware of how unprotected and public our private lives can be. With security cameras and the internet, it really would not be too difficult for someone in the government to keep track of what we do every day. Censorship and surveillance get more intense by the minute, and the governments have way too much power in general. So basically most of what the book warned about has come true, and we have not heeded the warnings. Orwell would definitely think we "are moving closer to the vision in his