George Orwell’s use of language in Nineteen Eighty-Four Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, has been called one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell provides readers with a look into what would happen if the government controlled every aspect of people’s lives, even their own thoughts. Orwell uses language to influence the mindset of the citizens of Oceania. Orwell’s use of language shows how people can be manipulated and deceived
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of those societies led by a totalitarian government found in the futuristic books and movies? Many seem to agree since technology has advanced to point where it can do as much or even more as the aged books have foretold. In the novel, 1984, the author, George Orwell, wrote about a distant future where everything was controlled by one person known as Big Brother. The main protagonist in Orwell's story, Winston Smith, believes that things are not as they should be and explains how they were always being
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George Orwell’s 1984 was written to be a warning to future societies about the dangers of an overly powerful government. One of the ways the government used to keep the people in control was altering their perception of reality using the media. Could even a very powerful government control the minds of citizens so that they no longer believe scientific facts or even something as simple as 2+2=5? Reality is a concept that is mainly based on one person’s belief. Therefore, if they could infiltrate
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used by George Orwell in the novel “1984” by representing what it is like to have your freedoms taken away. The main protagonist, Winston Smith, often finds himself struggling with himself and others to find the truth. In Plato’s “The Allegory of a Cave”, the character struggles to get his point across to his friends who refuse to accept the truth. Plato and George Orwell use rhetoric to explain the importance of freedom, whether the oppressor is someone else or yourself. George Orwell’s “1984” represents
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1984 or 2017? Our modern day technology is starting to mirror George Orwell's vision in 1984. Throughout the years, our technology has progressed and has become more efficient than it has been in previous years. Even our smartphones that we sit in our back pocket or the laptops we carry around us are more innovative than all of the technology combined in the 60s and 70s. This may be an advantage to our everyday life, but at what cost? The government can be recognized as “all knowing”. You may think
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The book 1984 opened my eyes to the harsh reality of the world we currently live in. It made me well aware of government control and the control within other groups of people. This control can affect not only me, but other people around the world as well. My purpose for writing this paper is to explain the things I have learned after reading 1984 by George Orwell. It was Orwell’s goal to write this book and state his ideas and theories about a strong totalitarian government. He provided clear examples
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about the injustice. George Orwell’s 1984, portrays life under an oppressive government that constantly spys on citizens, presents misleading media, and is constantly fighting a foreign enemy. Today in 2016, the United States government spies on citizens through technology, allows a media oligarchy, and is constantly in the midst of a never ending war. The unacceptable actions of the government in Orwell’s 1984 and today are eerily similar, and the
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country with economic despair. George Orwell’s novel 1984 displays a future dystopian world with a lot of warnings. Some of the warnings begin portrayed in the novel should not be taken for granted. The Novel talks about Party Members of INSCOG and the proles. The two characters presented in the book could be foreshadowing the heroes for our time. Emmanuel Goldstein and Winston Smith are the protagonists in the book. Many elements in the year 2016, are in 1984. Orwell predicted that a powerful few
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1984 is a novel by George Orwell that broadcasted Orwell’s distaste for the direction society was going in. The society Orwell wrote about is in complete submission to the overbearing government, and does not mind. The main character, Winston, does not mindlessly agree with the government, as it seems everyone else does. This alienation is important to the moral of the novel because it shows that societies are easily manipulated, its easy for governments to become too powerful once they have control
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Madison Mullane Mr. Cagley ERWC 6 April 2015 A Society Solely Based on Hatred and Fear In his novel, 1984 (1949), George Orwell tells a story that illustrates a society solely based hatred and fear. Orwell develops his argument, by showing how the structure of the society can survive, by showing ways how “Big Brother” catches the people who want to rebel against the party, in order to express how this type of society can survive. He writes this book to affect the minds of the young adults because
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