What Is 1984 A Utopia Or Dystopia

Utopias and Dystopias are very different. A utopia is a paradise while dystopias are twisted and manipulated. A utopia can become a dystopia by multiple means. One way could be a corrupt leader has come into power and is slowly controlling people to where they don't even realize they are being controlled. Another way is that people are threatened to obey and respect their new leader. Both of these examples are what makes up the dystopian world of 1984. People can also be persuaded into thinking they are joining their ideal vision of a utopia. This example is much like the Heaven’s Gate Cult. These examples best describe how a utopia can easily become a dystopia.
A Utopian society can easily be converted to a dystopian society if power fall into the wrong hands. They could easily manipulate people by playing the nice guy and persuading people that their changes
The citizens have been carefully analysed and managed so that there is no rebellion and there is no uprising. If anyone disagreed or had a different thought with anything that Big Brother stood for, they would be taken care of and erased from memory, “People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word (Orwell 39).” In the book, Winston explains how Big Brother deals with people who don't conform to their ideas. They also bombed their own country just to install fear on the proles, “The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, ‘just to keep people frightened (Orwell 127).” All the tactics they used in the book have been used in the real world as