George Orwell 1984 Power

“The individual only has power in so far as he ceases to be an individual” (Orwell). The power lies within the individual, and is then unknowingly manipulated into being overshadowed by a superior’s power. Willingly, as well; all these pathological approaches, saying it is for your safety and shaming you if you go against it. One has only the option to do what everyone else is doing and somehow simultaneously honestly believing they are in control of everything. If you are giving up everything you have, everything that separates you from your neighbor, does the power lie within you or who you are giving it to? The only thing that can be known to exist and knowledge of anything outside the mind is unjustified; therefore the whole of a reality and the external world and other people are merely representations of the individual self, having no independent existence of their own, and might in fact not even exist (Branch). If one believes everything handed down to them, without a second thought-and most importantly, willingly-who is to say that is not mind control in itself? At some point one has to question whether or not anything is true, and if one does so, in depth, they soon will be questioning their own individuality and possibly their own existence. In 1984, Orwell does not fall short of scrutinizing the more than visible power
It is already going on, all around us. Nobody knows half of the things that go on, on a political level. But everyone knows what celebrity is dating who. This is an example of things falling into place, it may not have been planned and manipulated to be this way, but it sure is not going to change. 1984 by George Orwell has been studied, analyzed, and compared to the present countless times, and yet more than half a century later, his dystopian vision of the future is alive and in rude good