Topic C
Warnings
George Orwell has many warning signs in 1984, but the one that stood out to me most was his warning that if history keeps going on the same way, humans will lose their qualities. In other words, if we keep on getting into large wars, humans will only care about that, and will do whatever it takes to become the world superpower. Through the description of the buildings and the Party, the government, I could tell that that the society was terrible. The buildings were described as falling apart; they “smelled like rotten cabbage”. By this description, I could tell that the society was poor. What I thought was odd though was that the government was collecting money for Hate Week, which was war related, even though they don’t have enough money to support living conditions. Also, the society is under constant surveillance, suggesting that dehumanization is taking place. This is exactly what Orwell was trying to express, that if humans keep going into wars, then they will suffer.
I believe that Orwell does make this warning clear and believable because of the way he describes everything. Like I mentioned before, the economy is not stable enough to support living conditions, however the government is collecting money to prepare for Hate Week. Along with this, movies and even television are all about war. In the first part of the book, he makes it clear that this is a growing problem because the movie is about a family who is being shot at by a helicopter. The people at this movie laugh too, they are laughing about a mother and a child being killed by gunfire.
I really didn’t catch an alternative to this warning; however there may have been slight hints to alternatives. I guess that thinking for yourself may have been one, but I’m not very sure.
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