Totalitarianism In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

In the novel 1984 the party also known as the government in the novel demands loyalty to Big Brother. Totalitarianism is a system of the government that is dictatorial. Totalitarianism requires complete loyalty to the government. The party seeks to control everything. The goal of the party is to control the citizens and manipulate information. They manipulate information by erasing, recreating, or modifying the truth in history. The citizens of Oceania are not allowed to keep written records of their lives, anything that pertains documents of their lives must be destroyed in a memory hole. The party also monitors the behavior of its citizens they are not allowed to love their families because all love should be for Big Brother. The power the party has is to control the present by altering the past. If the people do not cooperate they use the military to perform tactics to get the rebellious people to love Big Brother. In the novel 1984 the party (government) employs totalitarianism and general manipulation to control and have absolute power over its citizens.

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"The Dark Power of Destinya€ in George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 47.1 (2014): 179-94. Web. Martha explains that the dark and twisted ways of a certain era has a lot to do with Orwell’s writing. Orwell wanted to make political writing into art. It explains that totalitarianism is a form of government control. It explains that the effects of world war two is what caused him to write the novel 1984. Big brother is the dictator also could be called the government controls everything and is apart of the citizens daily life. That includes psychological needs, history, and information. They torture and manipulate people by keeping them underfed,scared, and noting letting them have knowledge of