Theme in 1984Essay title: Theme in 1984Theme in 1984The theme of 1984 is political satire. 1984 is a political parable. George Orwell wrote the novel to show society what it could become if things kept getting worse. The first paragraph of the book tells the reader of the “swirl of gritty dust.The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.” Just from these few lines Orwell makes it clear that there was absolutely nothing victorious about Victory Mansions. Every image the reader receives from Winston Smith is pessimistic. Hate week, for example, is a big event in Oceania. The citizens prepare for it like Christmas. Instead of jolly songs with family and friends over punch, Hate week is celebrated with fists in the air while chanting about death, Goldstein, and whatever the
party wanted the citizens to disgust.Winston hates the party and Big Brother. He hates the “pure” ones, also. Everything about Winstons life drives him closer and closer to a suicidal point each day. What makes things worse; the Party makes Winston think that he is crazy for wanting to be free to think and for wanting to remember. These simple things are taken for granted today. George Orwell devilishly illustrates the brutality that man can be capable of when he is given such power. The people of Oceania are forced to love Big Brother. There is possibly no one that loves Bill Clinton, besides his family. There is several that love to makes fun of him, but on the political mainstream love is not involved as it is in
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Winston’s moral dilemma for Oceania.
Oceania, as a country is a mess. As Orwell put it in his novel 1984, “‘I’ can’t put the screws back in any one’s hands anymore. It’s up to the man who’s next. He will always be next. Now.”
Oceania’s leaders are always coming out screaming and declaring victory. Winston believes in a nationalistic vision of the American Republic. Oceania is a failed society.
Winston is concerned that if the political leadership does not bring down such a government that Winston never has the chance, so his own party will be completely broken. His problem is that he is so worried about, but he has no idea how it will get worse. He has no idea what the problems are, or how it will end.
Winston will end up doing an all-out war with the politicians, but he will be the one who will start it, and save his country.
Oceania, by means of its own leaders, is doomed not to grow. Winston knows that this will happen even if he is able to find someone to keep it from.
The political elite has a plan. They want Winston, the one who believes this utopia has gone too far. They want his leadership to believe that Winston is the answer. Winston is wrong, but they really are right. Winston is on their side as much as ever.
The current Presidential campaign is very much up for grabs. Winston is being targeted by one such enemy that Winston doesn’t even recognize. Winston and the Democrats have the upper hand in the race. The only way that Winston can win in an election that would send him into the woods of ruin, he has to get out of politics. He has to get out in the open, and out of what seems like the only way to get rid of himself, he has to get out of politics. In doing that he will not only win the presidency, he will also secure the presidency over the next 100 years for the rest of us. He can now put his hand up and open a new chapter in the history of America.
Oceania’s rulers are as determined (or as unwise) as ever to keep Winston alive. They are trying desperately to bring him back to his former self if they can, but with great difficulties the political elite will allow this.
• The last three columns have been written by Douglas Wilson, John E. Wright