Examples Of Tyrany In 1984 By George Orwell

During the cold war era you couldn’t buy foreign commodities or criticize government action without fear of being arrested or accused of being a communist. Today the North Korean government prevents its citizens from hearing news or information from other countries and sentences those who oppose their rule to forced labor camps. In his works George Orwell uses foreshadowing, irony, and allegories to demonstrate the mechanisms of tyranny such as propaganda, fear, and the control and alteration of information, often accurately foreshadowing real events. Propaganda seems to be a common indicator of the presence of tyranny, based on how aggressively it is distributed. For example in 1984 the government, referred to as ‘The Party’, implements a new language simple called ‘Newspeak’ which is created to limit and eliminate the possibility of people communicating ideas of rebellion or anything that challenges the government. For example, “In Newspeak there is no word for “Science””(1984) this is meant to limit the intelligence of
In 1984 Winston has a job in the ‘Ministry of Truth’ in which he is in charge of altering historical records that don't align with the government’s current stance, ensuring the government is never in the wrong in any aspect. Orwell uses the name of Winston’s ministry to implement irony to show how backwards this level of complete government control is. In Animal Farm the other animals are forced to accept a new reality when “the sores of food for the winter were none too plentiful… Squealer read out the figures in a shrill rapid voice, proving to them in detail they had more oats, more hay, and more turnips than they had in Jones’s day”(Animal Farm). And the animals would accept this as truth as they had no way to prove