Totalitarian Government In George Orwell's 1984

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In 1949, a man predicted the domination of citizens by the totalitarian government and their custom of technologies to dictate the society. His name is George Orwell, a well-known British author, who wrote one of the most famous dystopian novels, 1984. The novel 1984 illustrates the totalitarian society and the life of Winston Smith, who works at the Ministry of truth and his humiliation by the party of the country, Oceania. George Orwell’s exaggeration and mockery of the totalitarian governments in the novel 1984 is now turning out to be one of the nightmare come true in our modern society.

What is it like to live under the control of totalitarian government? The state will control every aspect of the individual’s life, meaning that people will not have any individual freedom and will be controlled by the authority of the government. Totalitarian governments do not accept any self-led activities, either those performed by individual or group of people. Totalitarian regimes often maintain their authorities through secret police, spread of propaganda through medias and prohibits open criticism against the government. Both mental and physical threats are simultaneously performed in order to maintain the control over the society through fear.

There already exist few countries that follow by the custom of totalitarianism. One of those few countries includes North Korea, one of the world’s most secretive and isolated societies. North Korea arose in 1948, by the end of World

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