Dystopian Journal 2

The society that George Orwell created in his dystopian novel 1984 was in almost every way extremely powerful and very scary. The way that INGSOC controls its people is in every way extremely oppressive and corrupt. The government works toward the goal of complete and everlasting control. Orwell’s vision is so powerful because in it the people will lose there basic intelligence and with it their facility to deny what they are told is truth. Also their goals, independence, and purpose is taken away so the people have nothing to fight for and without intelligence nothing to fight with. This means that the government can completely solidify its rule and destroy all rebellious attempts.
The author’s alternatives is that the lower class, the majority of the population, will realize that they are not living how they should and they are being taken advantage of. Once they see this truth they will rise up and overthrow the government with their numbers. However the reason that the idea is so scary is because the lower class cannot compare their lifestyle to any lifestyle that people used to have. In fact they are told that their lifestyle has improved and because that lie cannot be proven false everyone accepts it to be the truth. So because the government keeps the lower class people happy and destroys any goals or dreams they have the government can keep the lower class from rebelling. This means that the government has become indestructible and not only has complete power but in fact everlasting control over the country.

Word count: 260