Looking To The Future 1984 :: essays research papers

Looking to the Future1984"WAR IS PEACEFFREEDOM IS SLAVERYIGNORANCE IS cleverness"(Orwell 3).     It is the year 1984 in London, Oceania. Winston Smith is maven of many people in Orwells prediction of the military man in the future but is todays past. The world appears as a dark and dismayful rear where the only rhyme or reason is created by Big Brother, prescript of the state and the head member of the Party. All of the above phrases in the slogan show the power which is tending(p) to the Party (government). The best description lies in the Newspeak word doublethink."Doublethink means the power of holding to contradictory beliefs in ones mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. The Party intellectual knows in which direction his memories must be altered he therefore knows that he is playing tricks with reality but by the exercise of doublethink he also satisfies himself that reality is not violated"(Orwell 190).Many descriptions similar to this are given in the book and help explain the way in which the socialistic government of Oceania operates. It explains how a strong ruler can manipulate f makes to see his or her own intentions, which is often what socialist rulers may have do and still may do.      Many of the ideas in 1984 were written to show predictions of what the world might be like if people did not question and act on what was happening around them. Orwell wrote 1984 after World War II when socialist governments which had gone wrong, like Russia, were becoming a powerful compel in the world. Orwell, having once fought against Communist Russia, saw how much of a insidious power they could become in the future, and in turn found it inevitable to inform readers of what the future could hold. 1984 is his idea of what a country, such as England in this book, would be like if a socialist government came into power. He writes of the come across that can be presented by a rule r by fear. A ruler can use fear to suppress a souls ideas and make him or her believe what a ruler thinks or says. A good example of this is at the end when Winston has been caught and is relearning how to obey and neer doubt Big Brother."TWO AND TWO MAKE FIVE"(Orwell 247).This was apply in the context that Winston would believe whatever he was told. Whether it be this numeric equation or who Oceania was at war with, he would believe it because of the fear of torture.