George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 :: Free Essays on 1984

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human race mind when it comes to index number, corruption, control, and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that agency given to the g everywherenment depart ultimately become corrupt and they will undertake to force all to conform to their one set standard. He also sets forth the idea that the corrupted regime will attempt to destroy any and all mental and physiologic opposition to their beliefs, indeed eliminating any opportunity for achieving an utopian society.     The novel shows how the authorities attempts to control the minds and bodies of it citizens, such(prenominal) as Winston Smith who does non subscribe to their beliefs, through a variety of methods. The first obvious example arises with the large posters with the caption of "Big sidekick is Watching You" (page 5). These are the first pieces of evidence that the governme nt is watching over its people. Shortly afterwards we learn of the "Thought Police", who "snoop in on conversations, always watching your every move, controlling the minds and thoughts of the people." (page 6). To the corrupted government, physical control is not good enough, however. The only way to completely distinguish physical opposition is to first eliminate any mental opposition. The government is trying to control our minds, as it says "thought crime does not implicate death thought crime is death." (page 27). Later in the novel the government tries even more drastic methods of control. Big Brother&8217s predictions in the Times are changed. The government is lying about yield figures (pages 35-37). Even later in the novel, Syme&8217s name was left(a) out on the Chess Committee list. He then fundamentally vanishes as though he had never truly existed (page 122). Though the methods and activities of the government seem rather extreme in Orwell &8217s novel, they whitethorn not be entirely too false. "Nineteen Eighty-Four is to the disorders of the ordinal century what Leviathan was to those of the seventeenth." (Crick, 1980). In the novel, Winston Smith talks about the people not being human. He says that "the only thing that can keep you human is to not allow the government to get inside you." (page 137). The corruption is not the only issue which Orwell presents, both directly and indirectly. He warns that absolute power in the hands of any government can lead to the deprival of staple freedoms and liberties for the people.