1984 Literary Critisism
George Orwell creates a society in his novel 1984 in which decency, individuality, and consciousness have all been abolished to obtain a utopia. Utopia in this sense means “an imaginary political and social system in which relationships between individuals and the state are perfectly adjusted.” Orwell believed that in order to achieve this perfect society, the state must use a “completely unlimited use of torture and brainwashing.” (Fromm, 261) However, Orwell’s intention of writing the novel was not to show the reader what the society of his time might become, but rather to give a warning that humans should resist and become conscious of the totalitarian states that governed his world. George Orwell’s aim was to provide society with an answer to the question as stated by Erich Fromm, “Can human nature be changed in such a way that man will forget his longing for freedom, for dignity, for integrity, for love--that is to say, can man forget he is human?” (260) The world of 1984 can be compared to a world run by machines. Orwell purveys to the reader that through oppression, cruelty and torture, brainwashing, and elimination of man’s inmost desires man can be made “unhuman.”
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Approximate Word count = 992
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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