1984: The Novel That Showed The World How It Should not Be

               

           A social satire that had the maximum impact on human thinking: that is what George Orwell’s 1984 is.  It is a prophetic fiction written in 1949 when many countries were adopting totalitarian governments like the Nazi Germany and the fascist Italy.

        The world was divided into many political sectors (each sectors containing multiple countries) also governed by dictatorship.The main character of the novel is a government employee Winston smith who secretly hated his own government. The world humanity at that time was devoid of basic humane rights like freedom to think and freedom to speak resulting in the destruction of individuality.

 

         Only the members of governments’ innermost circle enjoy civil rights. All the others were held under suspicion. There were CCTVS and listening devices everywhere to catch spies and rebels that can never be turned off. Citizens are compelled to spy each other; even children are taught to spy on their parents that who ever speaks against the government and the big brother (the dictator) is arrested by special wing of force called the thought police. They then undergo a lengthy inquisitional process .there is nothing like pardon, once you are accused, you will simply cease to exist ,all the profs showing your existence were removed. Others were afraid of speaking about the missing persons, lest they should themselves be arrested.

         George Orwell was a British novelist and critic and essentially an anti- communist. In this novel, Orwell was probably ridiculing the closed soviet dictatorial government which did not care for all citizens’ rights.

      In that respect I too agree with the novel and the author. If USSR hadn’t disintegrated by 1990 and instead it grew more and more powerful, then a new era of inquisition would have began there, suppressing rights of people, denying them free thought.

               In a morally boosted 21^st century, it would then have caused an uprising, a rebellion among the suppressed, which would have included other countries (of past USSR) like Ukraine or Kazakhstan. If that had happened, then 10 or 20 nations declaring revolutionary war against Russia would begin a third world war, with USA eager to back up the rebels. If Russia is in turn supported by some powers like china or India, then the war would become apocalyptic.