Loss Of Humanity In 1984 By George Orwell

In both novels the authors abolish the past to serve the beliefs of their governments. In Brave New World this society embraces the misquoted line “History is bunk” and have no intrests in history at all. Anything from the past in this civilization holds no importance. In 1984 they still cast history aside but instead of getting rid of it completely like Brave New World, the government continues to revise it until there is little to no truth left in it at all. The Party revises everything to comply with the requirements of the future. Making the concept of historical truth irrelevant.

History is a never-ending story that explains the five W’s: Who, what, when, where, and why. However, an important question is missing from what history is stereotyped to be. What shapes history? Whether it is from a societal, national, or civil aspect, history is developed by the ideals and beliefs that man hold to be true-as in deism, theism, and even atheism, self-interest, and the want for power

Overbearing governments can change every aspect of society but people’s memories and their stories of the past cannot be completely altered to forget what life was like. Society uses these memoires to compare it to the new way of ruling which sometimes is less favorable to the individual. Governments try to change people’s opinions of reality which proves to be impossible. Within the novels, 1984 by George Orwell, The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the Governments have taken society's freedom away and all that remains are the memories of what life was like before the changes; the main characters are constantly using the past as a way to survive through the difficult times.

1984 examines a future under the rule of a totalitarian society. One of the unique notes about Orwell's 1984, is the views that Orwell presents on humanity, and human nature. Orwell presents humanity as divided into two sides- the dominant, and the submissive, with few quickly-eradicated anomalies in between. Human nature, however, is universal, and all humans

1984 is a cautionary tale that follows Winston through the cruel world he lives in. To give a bit of background, the novel was published on June 8th, 1949, only about two years into the start of the cold war. The “horror” of communism was rampant during this time, and George Orwell wanted to show what could happen if a government had so much control over the people of their country. He wanted people to understand that governments should not be able to dehumanize people, otherwise the people living there aren’t technically human. Orwell wanted people to know how to stay human, they just have to have a personality, and to hold onto your own opinions. According to George Orwell, it doesn’t take a lot to be human, but the few things it does take are so important, that if we were to let them go, our worlds would fall apart. George Orwell wants his readers to understand and hold on to the things that are important to us, the ones we love, the things we do, the people we are, because those are the things that truly make us

George Orwell uses his novel 1984 to convey that human beings, as a species, are extremely susceptible to dehumanization and oppression in society. Orwell demonstrates how a government’s manipulation of technology, language, media, and history can oppress and degrade its citizens.

The past. The past isn’t a thing in 1984. The real past that is. They took the history and real facts about life behind them and twisted them. They twisted them to make them their own. Their own history, that they tell their people and make them believe it. They don’t tell them about historical moments that shaped the country they used to know. They tell them things to make them think that times then were better than times were back then. But deep down they know that time now is not as great as it could be. But they don’t know that and that makes it harder for

Nations all around the world are still healing from the wounds of twentieth century totalitarianism, yet more seems to be on the horizon. In his 1984 magnum opus, George Orwell warns future generations of the many dangers of allowing government, or the powerful few, from being the chiefs of law expression and history using the eerie, all-powerful dystopian Party. Unfortunately, it is a warning few have truly heeded in the past half century. Resulting from a lack of written laws, the Party may prosecute its citizens relentlessly and without reason. Moreover, the Party maintains an iron grip on all published information, ensuring a death hold on all free expression and education. Yet, above all, the Party controls history; it rewrites, revises and republishes the past to secure their totalitarian future. In spite of these warnings, the decades following the publication of this novel saw nations continue on the

Embedded in the human spirit is the notion that people possess an innate sense of being an individual, free to think, act, and understand the world surrounding them. In George Orwell’s 1984, individuality is removed to support the Party’s abilities in controlling and exploiting the masses. Yet, despite their success in suppressing the citizens of Oceania there is something rooted in humanity that although can be repressed, still remains implanted within the deepest parts of a person’s mind. In the novel, while the Party attempts to annihilate all human instincts in order to acquire pure and absolute power, it is unknown to them that despite their best efforts there lies something much more dominant in the human mind which although can be inhibited may never be entirely eliminated. As Winston ponders revolutionary ideas, his physical body unknowing to his conscious mind, is complacent with his innermost thoughts to rebel in any way possible. Winston’s thoughts of unorthodoxy become enhanced through Julia because he discovers someone who desires and understands him, conjuring up something instinctual in him which has been waiting to be released. To care and protect someone else becomes instinctive when he/she experiences suffering or pain and this kind of understanding is acknowledged through the only people Winston believes express any sanity in a corrupt world: the proletarians. A person’s impulse to resist an oppressive nature is instinctual and this is validated through

In “1984”, lies, myths and false information controls the thinking of the citizens. The Party uses propaganda as the deadliest weapon of control. Propaganda increases the citizens’ morale and makes them think that what the party tells them to do is always right.

Orwell shows some of these key traits of humanity and what he may think is considered “human” when Winston describes his mother the

The manipulation of information in 1984 is a significant factor of its continual submission of its citizens to the Great Power. Changing information may also lead to the power of changing the past. This is obvious and an intention of Big Brother, his continual success is bleakly based upon his power to lie. There are scenarios we see today that perfectly incorporate to 1984.

The Past: Brave New World vs. 1984 1984, written by George Orwell, and Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley are two of the most profound books that have shaped the genre of dystopian novels. Both novels transport their readers into a world that perhaps isn’t all that impossible and blatantly condemns the past that we all know. The Past is a useful tool for the World State and the Party to preserve their established worlds, the authors of 1984 and Brave New World recognized this and turned it into an unseen but driving force, which possesses the power to destroy as it is hidden to prevent potential conflict. From the very beginning of Brave New World, it’s clear that knowledge of the past is not an active part in the world Huxley created. The present has been established by the World Controllers and maintained by them, keeping the knowledge of the past unknown as it could make people

The Party controlled every source of information in 1984. They managed and rewrote the content of all newspapers and histories for their own sake. The Party didn’t want the citizens to have pictures or even documents from their past. As a result, this caused memories to be uncertain, and the citizens were willing to believe whatever the Party

Through his use of humor, avoidance of the pronoun “you”, and example of Mahatmas Gandhi, George Orwell persuades the audience that humanism is a more appropriate way for people to live their lives than asceticism because of the moral differences.