PRACTICE FREE RESPONSE QUESTION 5
One theme common of the dystopian novel is that government’s intention’s are not benevolent, but self-serving. In a well-written essay using 1984 as your example, defend the accuracy of this statement of theme.
According to the book 1984 by George Orwell it was common to see certain things that where known to be facts change. The government in this case a totalitarianism, this means the government is in control of everything. Every aspect of life, time, privacy, who they ought to be around with, and many more things. All the actions of the government where to benefit the government and only the government. Rockets frequently explode out in the streets killing a hand full of people at a time. Men so called the thought police where in charge of destroying anything that…show more content… This was to create fear in people. the thought that “big brother” was watching you made you think of what he would approve of. Theses citizens lived in a place filled with microphones everywhere you went you would see one. Many people would get killed or sent to go do labor work because of simple things like making a certain face or even talking to someone for to long. The governments idea at the end is to make a perfect world where everything was victory and nothing but victory. It was the government that would make the citizens think that the world was flat or that this so called big brother was watching over them and watching every move that they do. At some point in the book they explain how the government doesn’t want to toucher people but it was to break courios people like Winston and Julia, and they managed to break them to the point where the most important thing to them they gave it up. The love that winston and julia had for each other was the one thing holding them sane and not currupt like the government but when O’brien put in front his greatest fear he couldn’t help but give in and throw julia in. After they where out and
