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1984 Essay

In a world controlled by a higher power, constantly living in fear of
doing or saying something wrong, thoughts can be incriminating. Even worse,
any unpure thoughts may make you disappear. Constantly being watched, and
observed without knowing. A telescreen watching every facial expression and
recording any abnormal body language and movement everywhere you go. Even in
your home there is no escape. You are unable to get away or turn off the
power of the Telescreen and "Big Brother". This novel is of a man's struggle
against a totalitarian government that controls the ideas and thoughts of
its citizens.

In the novel 1984 by George Orwell the government used advanced mind reading
techniques to discover the thoughts of the people and punish those who show
signs of rebellion against the government. The novel is supposed to be a
prophetic story, however, it was somewhat wrong in predicting the date when
this government would rein. Although some themes described in the book are
now realities, some are not going to happen for some time to come and this
is why this novel continues to be overwhelming to us today.

Perhaps Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to express his feelings of
how the governments would come to control everything and anything they
wished to do. It is also possible that he wanted to tell of how mind control
and torture techniques could be used to make an individual or an entire
nation do what the government wanted. This story shows the danger of a world
in which the government has too much control. The novel shows how the
government controls its people, eliminating their individuality and the
essence of everything that makes a human a human.

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed-if all records
told the same tale-then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who
controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls
the present controls the...