Can you Compare 1984 to the totalitarian government of a past or
present?In this essay I will be comparing The Novel 1984 by George Orwell with
1934 Germany being ruled by Adolf Hitler. The Novel and Germany portrait
many similarities of a communist government.In the Novel we see that there are three major superpowers that are at
war. Eurasia, Oceania and Estasia. These powers are under total control.
Oceania is the superpower where the main character Winston Smith lives.
Winston describes his country under total soverounity. Winston says that
the government has Telescreen, little microhone where everybody could hear
you and see you put in homes, the government has made big posters saying
"Big Brother is Watching you" which means that the government is
watching.The government makes forget old things, and they make u think that
never happened and that is called doublethink. Nobody is allowed to have
friends; they are allowed to call them comrades. They can’t either have
plenty of stuff in their house like coffee, good bread, chocolate and
razors. Also the party does not approve a marriage between two people in
love because of the sexual pleasures they just want the married couples to
have children.A communist leader called Adolf Hitler was ruling Germany in 1934. He
had everybody follow him. They did not have any freedom whatsoever. No
freedom of speech, no freedom to choose whom they wanted as their leader.
Many citizens of Germany couldn’t own their own business, they couldn’t
eat what they wanted to, they couldn’t dress how they wanted to, and the
country didn’t have any export or imports with certain countries. So if
a country that was not allowed to export with them had something they
wanted Hitler would disagree.Many people suffer when Hitler was in power specially the Jews, because
Hitlerhated Jews. He tortured them and took all their freedoms. The worst
torture method that Hitler used was Concentration Camp; he separated
Jewish families and sends them to camp where everybody lives together
according to their sex and age. Many of those people were torture by not
giving them food, not giving them warm clothes for the winter and many
were sent into dark rooms and killed. Many were said to forget about who
they are. Is like in the novel of how they use doublethink. Making them a
new identity.
In Conlcusion The Novel 1984 and Germany are similar in the ways that
strong dictatorship leaders ruled them. Who where not interested in the
good of others but interested in solely power. Not wealth or luxury or
long life or happiness: only power, pure power. We could see how low this
Dictatorship put them only for power. One slogan used in the book is
"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" this slogan is so powerful because if you
reverse it says "SLAVERY IS FREEDOM". Alone free the human being
is always defeated. It must be so because every human being is doomed to
die, which is the greatest of all failures. Power is power over human
being, over the body but, above all over the mind.
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