Keywords
the Party
totalitarian society
the proles
the ruling class
Big Brother
doublethink
totalitarianism
Ingsoc
Oceania
the Thought Police
Great Purgues
the Two Minute Hate
the Youth League
the Junior Anti-Sex League
How to Cite
Abstract
George Orwell´s 1984 is considered a great negative utopia, in the sense it depicts the nightmare of what life might become in an oligarchic collectivism pursued to its logical conclusion. Under a social setup which is nothing but totalitarian barbarism, eternal warfare is the price one pays for an elusive peace. The Party with capital P keeps a total control over all of man´s actions as well as thoughts . The novel is a great satire and it attempts to diagnose man´s alienation in all its aspects, but with special emphasis on the social organization recommended by Marx and practiced by Stalin.References
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