Abuse Of Power In 1984 By George Orwell

If you stay in the vision of the telescreen, which is 90 percent of the time, the government will know exactly what you are doing. It is an invasion of privacy, which is almost completely gone in this society. This is one of the main themes of the book because it controls everyone, just like the Party wants to

A place where the government monitors and watches everything one does, twenty four hours, seven days a week. That is how the cizitens of Oceania live under the ruling power of Big Brother’s totaliterian state. The last method that Big Brother employs to maintain power is the use of techology to constranly monitor everyones activity. Monitoring peoples life with telescreens is very effective because even “the smallest thing could give you away”(page-62) could give a rebel away. “A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety”(page-62) almost anything really.

Many believed that communists were inciting rebellions in the form of labor unions in almost every state; focus shifted from the Red Scare when the need to focus on the war in Europe overpowered the supposed presence of a communist party. After World War II, tensions arose between Russia, then known as the USSR, and the United States. This tension and the events that followed came to be called the Cold War, one of its main events being the Second Red Scare. The Second Red Scare was more destructive than the first. During this Scare, the United States believed that it was constantly under attack from Communists, both from within and outside of the nation 's borders.

An Oppressive Government George Orwell talks about the dangers that can occur with an oppressive totalitarian government. He documents life under a controlling government party referenced to The Party and Big brother. He discusses the lack of privacy of the citizens and the result and consequences of committing crimes. During the time period of the late 40’s the government used telescreens in order to surveillance the people at all times. “ On coins, stamps, on the covers of books… everywhere.

(Orwell 263) Big Brother was the “ruler” of the United States, he controlled every aspect of every life; He is the Hitler of 1984. He dictated every person of every second of every day. He controlled who went to what job, how much they were paid, and even what time they woke up in the morning. He watched every move every person took, he manipulated his citizens into believing that he could read their thoughts. “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” (Orwell 281).

I strongly agree with Robert’s claim. McCarthyism resulted in Americans turning against each other because of politicians greed for power, paranoia, and the fear of communist infiltration. Clearly, Senator McCarthy’s greed for political power led to American citizens’ unrest. In Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”, John Proctor dealt with the corruption of power in his town when Abigail Williams and many other girls accused those, who were innocent, of witchcraft. Similarly, americans were being blacklisted by McCarthy because they believed these people may have

Reflection of this conflict was apparent in the American ethos, in which Americans feared that if “world communism captur[ed] any American state…a new and perilous front…will increase the danger to the entire free world and require even greater sacrifices from the American people” (Document B). As illustrated by Eisenhower, “the hysteria” of communism propagating into American society and threatening the American way of life was a very prevalent fear at the forefront of the Cold War (Document A). McCarthyism, a system established by Senator Joseph McCarthy in which he made unsubstantiated accusations of subversion or treason to America, acted as the culmination of this hysteria, directly reflecting the sentiments driving the American people. Eisenhower did not engage in any domestic policies to quell these “multiplicity of fears” (Document A). Instead he compounded them with legislation such as the “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways…connect[ing] 209 of the 247 cities having a population of 50,00 more and [serving as] the country’s principal…defense” (Document D).

No freedom, no purpose, no opinion, no choice. All of these thoughts accompany the terrifying concepts of totalitarianism and dictatorship. Every day, we believe that we are safe from falling victim to these forms of reign, but what if we have been placed within one all along without truly knowing the difference? We are aware of power and who may possess it, yet this may not be sufficient for those that seek it. In 1984, George Orwell creates a dystopia where the common people live in conditions set forth by their totalitarian government, known as Big Brother.

In America today there is much anti-immigrant sentiment. Every time the news is turned on, another person is saying they will work to keep immigrants out. They say that immigrants steal jobs and that they are scum trying to screw the hard working Americans out of their hard earned money. Now more than ever with the upcoming election the issue is at the forefront of politics. With some politicians wanting to build a wall to keep Mexican immigrants out, it seems as if all Americans hate immigrants.

In an Authoritarian government, when citizens speak against their government or leader, they often are jailed or even killed. According to Kathleen Touchstone (2010) “The rights of the individual must be protected and not infringed by the government” (p.18) As the United States has expanded to a bigger governmental power, the issue of “terrorism” grows each and every day. The reason on why terrorism exists and continues to grow and take place is another issue I won’t even address because I could talk about it all day. But, the United States government uses federal organizations such as the NSA, which violates our constitution, rights, and privacy. They have the ability to tap into any technological device, and they do so to in the name of “counter terrorism” to “protect

Finally a totalitarian government will lie to their citizens so that they are always correct. In the novel of "1984" the party would constantly lie to the citizens about who they were fighting or about what rations that they were going to receive and would then correct any form of evidence saying anything else. This was used by our own country many times like when the government lied about the amount of soldiers we had during the war against Iraq (Richard Sisk, " Number of US Troops in Iraq More Than 4,000, Exceeds Previous Claims", 2016, p.1). This shows the use of restrictions and censorship in a totalitarian government to control their