Essays on 1984

A controversial topic to discuss is the idea that everything you say and do is being received and sold to a wider audience who are analyzing your movements purchases and communications. Are you concerned that you are being observed, that your digital and physical footprints...

The power of manipulation and fear in George Orwell 1984 “When you give the government the power to control the money supply, it grows like a tumour until it extinguishes society itself”(Stephen Molyneux). In George Orwell’s novel 1984, it is evident Orwell is trying emphasize...

“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness” (Orwell 136). George Orwell’s 1984 portrays a dystopian society where the governing power, the Party, rules their people through psychological manipulation and by stripping them of independent thought. After World War II, the Inner Party...

“1984” written by George Orwell, is set in a massive nation called “Oceania”, consisting of the Americas, the Atlantic Islands, including the British Isles, Australia, and the southern portion of Africa. The story itself takes place during the year 1984 in London, a time in...

Irony is a literary term that has three subcategories and is commonly used in writing. The three types of irony are dramatic irony, situational irony, and verbal irony. In ​1984 ​by George Orwell, all three subcategories of irony are used to highlight the injustice that...

“The term “personal identity” means different things to different people. Psychologists use it to refer to a person’s self-image — to one’s beliefs about the sort of person one is and how one differs from others.” (Olson). Identity relates to self, person, individual: how you...

We influence the past as much as the past influences us. The present influences our memories of the past as much as they remain alive in our present. Past and present are two different realities that interwine with each other and their relationship is often...

There are serious political topics that Orwell touches on in ​1984​, and many overlook other themes. He was felt afflicted because of the possibility that future governments would shift toward totalitarianism. There is a sustainable lesson that comes from this literature, it is the lesson...

A George Orwell, in his famous novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), drew his themes from is observations of Nazi Germany, and the Communist rise in the Soviet Union and Spain. As a Socialist, one of the writer’s goals was to illuminate the pitfalls of totalitarian control....

In the dystopian novel 1984, written by George Orwell, a country known as Oceania is ruled by a totalitarian government known as the party. Totalitarian is defined as a central government that does not tolerate parties of differing opinions and that exercises dictatorial control over...