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1984

The World of Nineteen Eighty- Four – perfect, but terrifying
Essay

In the novel Nineteen Eighty- Four George Orwell presents to his reader an unambiguous detailed description of a perfectly- organized society, based on full control over its people. Written in 1949, the book is a forecast of the possible future and yet it uses as fundamentals ideologies which existed in the world at that time and continue living in some parts. Although the world of the book is a hyperbolized one, it could become reality during the 20th century. Moreover, countries where the restrictions depicted in the book are still present. All these facts come to support the statement that is so perfectly created, that it both terrifies and warns its reader of the possible future.
The world of Nineteen Eighty- Four is perfectly organized. People exist under the control of the Party, and although there is no set of laws, the Party manages to fully direct every aspect of their lives. The system presented is indestructible- absolutely no one could damage or obliterate the Party, since the beginning of its existence. Even Winston, the main character failed, and in the end believed in the doctrine, which ruled in Oceania. Namely because of this fact, despite its perfection, the society’s organization is frightening. Human beings are totally manipulated, but they do not even realize it. This detail provides for the terrifying suggestion that such a world, where even people’s minds are controlled, could last forever.
If the reader tries drawing a scheme of the world in Nineteen Eighty- Four, it would probably look as a perfect circle- everything is fixed and cannot develop further. In this world, the individual is sacrificed in the name of the bright future. What is paradoxical is the fact that in the novel, the utopia for the perfect world already exists. The whole society lives in the expected future which is deprived of real values. Main aim and desire of all subjects is servicing the...