Dictatorship and Oppression in George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm

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2013-02-12T14:42:12Z
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As most of the fictional novels, 1984 and Animal Farms are also a kind of historic or social criticism of the age in which the author lived. He tried to describe a similar state and governing society that he saw around him, for example Stalin’s Soviet Union or Hitler’s Germany. In the following chapters, I would like to highlight and detail the different aspects and causes of those factors that elaborate the process of the extinction of humanity and individuality. Each chapter is going to about one factor. Among them the question of individual freedom, as in both novels the essential cause of insecurity of human / animal life is the lack of freedom and free will. The missing of honest and real interpersonal relationships, as in these kind of societies people are incapable to build connections among one another due to psychological, physical, moral and other reasons. The degradation of art, science, language and intellect, as these are said to be inferior and meaningless. Only some people of such a society can remain able to express themselves in writing. Personal and free thinking and self-expression is almost wiped out of this community. The question of transcendence, as religion is also about to disappear. People are given drugs and God is replaced by other superior “leaders” in 1984. The importance of time: How can people live without time? These people have no past, no present and no future. People have no sense of time, therefore without their past they are rootless and with their automatic present, they have no chance or hope for a better future. Animals have a shorter life than people yet they might find it difficult to remember the past as it is also changed, just like in 1984.

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totalitarian society, humanity, freedom, dictatorship
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