Treatment Of Classes In 1984 By George Orwell
In George Orwell’s 1984 there are three class levels that everyone belongs to almost like our own. There is the inner party they are the party everyone wants to be in. They would be like our top 3% . Then we have the outer party this is similar to our to our middle class (doctors and lawyers). Lastly are the proles they are the masses they would be like our underprivileged people. Why does Big Brother treat every class differently? In our world today and the world George Orwell describes in 1984, we are no different then Big Brother when it comes to the treatment of classes. Big Brother is the overall power in 1984. Our own government is often called this but it is not a good thing. Big Brother is “all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful” (Edward paragraph 1), an example of this would be the telescreens. These are
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Going back the example of the telescreen, the proles are able to turn their telescreen off whenever they want to. This is because the jobs they have isn’t important in the sense that it can not harm Big Brother. They mostly clean the streets or they would be a janitor. The inner party is able to turn their telescreen off for a maximum of thirty minutes, this is because they make government decisions. For the outer party they have no choice when it comes to the telescreens, 24/7, seven days a week, they are being watched. This is because the outer party has the most important job in Oceania, they change documents of the past to agree with what Big Brother says. In our world this logic is this kind of the same. Those part of the top get to decide what they want to do like if they don’t want pay taxes, they can file bankruptcy and they get a tax break. People at the bottom of the chain, like those who are homeless, may not have to pay taxes or not the full thing. And those in the middle class often pay their taxes so they can stay where they
Going back the example of the telescreen, the proles are able to turn their telescreen off whenever they want to. This is because the jobs they have isn’t important in the sense that it can not harm Big Brother. They mostly clean the streets or they would be a janitor. The inner party is able to turn their telescreen off for a maximum of thirty minutes, this is because they make government decisions. For the outer party they have no choice when it comes to the telescreens, 24/7, seven days a week, they are being watched. This is because the outer party has the most important job in Oceania, they change documents of the past to agree with what Big Brother says. In our world this logic is this kind of the same. Those part of the top get to decide what they want to do like if they don’t want pay taxes, they can file bankruptcy and they get a tax break. People at the bottom of the chain, like those who are homeless, may not have to pay taxes or not the full thing. And those in the middle class often pay their taxes so they can stay where they