George Orwell Use Of Propaganda In The Novel 1984

Andrew Jackson, a past president of the United States of America, once said, "It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes." In the novel titled 1984, the government uses their power and inhumane methods to keep people siding with the government. The presentation topic that most closely related to 1984 is the police and government and warnings about the dangers the police and government could bring. In the book, the Party uses surveillance and the collection of data to control the people of Oceania, and intimidation and police brutality are also used to control the people.

The Party not only controls large groups of people, such as the proles, but they also control their own party members, both inner and outer, directly through strict rules and

Thus he would intentionally turn his back on it and face the other way, still terrified that his back would give off any indication for the Thought Police to arrest him. A constsitant source of worry and fear that emanated from Winston was that his ideas and actions may be viewed as rebellious, resulting in his arrest. Due to his fear, he believed that anyone could be a spy for the Party; he found it difficult to build relationships and trust in people. Overall, Winston's dread similar to many others, of being arrested acts as a potent tool for the Party to isolate, corrupt, and control its people. The threat of totalitarianism, as well as the repression of individuality and freedom of thought, are all represented by the concept of the Thought Police.

Winston also had a secret notebook that he would write down his thoughts in which was not allowed by the party. Those who were younger than Winston had no memory of what life was like prior to the Party. The party's role on their people may be seen as irrational authority. Fromm gives an example of irrational authority when he writes, “The interest of a slave and master are antagonistic, because what is advantageous to one is detrimental to the other” ( Fromm 577). This is exactly what is happening between the party and the people.

These people are being deprived from any flicker of power that they might have. All of the power and control is going straight up to the Inner-circle of the Party, making them obsessive with this idea of complete domination. They are taking millions of people and rewriting their histories just so that it benefits the Party’s existence. Everything of the past is being destroyed just so they cannot be challenged by the ideas before them. Winston understands this uneven balance and while working one day, he realizes that “all history [is] a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as necessary” (41).

The words of the Party’s doctrine cause a more painful effect than physical control because it has lasting outcome that destroys the citizens psychologically. By the Party falsifying history and making contradictions to reality, it makes its citizens suffer using mind control. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government uses both psychological manipulation and physical control to control its citizens, although psychological manipulation is more effective and can be a result of physical control. Psychological manipulation is “a type of social influence that aims to change the behavior or perception of others through abusive, deceptive, or underhanded tactics”(Lieurance 2). Slogans, mind control, propaganda, and psychological pain that stems from physical torture are all examples of psychological manipulation in 1984.

In most places nowadays, the government places an important role in the lives we pursue and live, but have you ever wondered what would happen if the government controlled your every action? In 1984, a timeless classic by George Orwell, the Party is a totalitarian government group that completely dominates and controls the lives of the its citizens. Winston Smith, the protagonist, falls in love with a young woman named Julia, but since the Party abolished free love and sex, they must meet in private. Through this interaction and multiple others ones, Winston learns that the Party is controlling the citizens through fear and mind control. He goes to work everyday at the Ministry of Love where he basically rewrites history in attempt to make

They always conform by directing their contempt towards enemies of the Party and fear those conspiring against it. Through the threat of rebellion and sabotage, citizens are kept in fear and have their hate directed at the Party’s enemies and are manipulated to rely on it for protection. Winston, however, fears the Party and its total control on his life and on society. He secretly harbors dreams of a revolution and the destruction of the Party. His failure to be manipulated is later rectified through other tactics until he becomes a “perfect” member of society, relying on and loving the Party.

Government Manipulation in 1984 People generally rely on the government as a source of protection and stability. However, the government does not always have the citizens’ best interests in mind, as shown in 1984. The government has the power to distort realities and the ability to detect the truth. They can manipulate, or influence people’s minds without them even knowing. George Orwell’s 1984 uses a futuristic dystopia to show how the government is able to manipulate human values through the use of fear.

No one should have to live their lives being watched over by someone they don’t know like the government. Another quote shows that Winston needed “to conceal his agitation from the telescreen” (Orwell, page 108). The statement implies the need to hide emotions from an eye watching over a citizen. In the totalitarian government, people have to abide by the rules, in this case he can’t feel different emotions like anger. This shows how privacy is being violated in Orwell’s novel.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the Outer Party is silenced in order to evoke a sense of patriotism for Big Brother that is necessary for him to remain in power. This goal is achieved with anti-individualism, architecture, and historical revisionism. Orwell attempts to convey that everything outside of the Inner Party’s control must be stopped by creating an omnipresence of the government described by Orwell as “always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you” (Orwell, 26).

In 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society pervaded by government control and the obsolescence of human emotion and society. Winston is forced to confront the reality of a totalitarian rule where the residents of Oceania are manipulated to ensure absolute government control and servitude of the people. The theme of totalitarianism and dystopia is employed in 1984 to grant absolute power to the government and ensure the deference of the people through the proliferation of propaganda, the repudiation of privacy and freedom, and the eradication of human thought and values. The repudiation of privacy and independent thought and the ubiquity of government surveillance is employed to secure absolute power to the government over the populace

The party believe that destroying words will inevitably prevent power from slipping through their fingers. Values such as ‘honour, integrity, morality, etc’ cease to exist. In chapter five, Syme explains to Winston, “We’re cutting the language down to the bone. Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year”. Through this quote, it is easy to interpret that ‘Newspeak’ is merely used to restrict the freedom of expression.

Nowadays, we live in a democratic state, in which we can express ourselves, to act and to protest if we do not comply with the laws. We can move freely, without being anxious that we will be denounced to the police for breaking the rules. In ‘1984’ by George Orwell the situation is different: Big Brother is watching you, the Thought Police could be ubiquitous, even your children accuse you.

In 1984, a dystopian novel written by George Orwell, proles are represented as being generally incompetent in the ability to think and rebel against their stolen rights. However, as the story progresses, Winston comes to a realization that proles are the only ones with the character of human beings and the strength to gain consciousness to overthrow the party. Through this characterization of the proles, Orwell satirizes the detrimental effects of Stalin’s totalitarian government in employing total control and perpetual surveillance of the people in USSR to maintain an established hierarchy. The nature of how the system views the proles is clearly visible through the treatment and description of the proles in the eyes of Winston.