Three major themes shown throughout the novel 1984
...ety, the most utmost realization imaginable of a present-day government with absolute power. Orwell describes a state in which government monitors and controls every part of human life to the reach that even having a traitorous idea is against the law. The Party uses a number of techniques to control its citizens, each of which is an important theme of its own in the novel. Orwell used the title of the book to display the danger of totalitarianism and if it is not stopped now, could be reality in thirty-five years from when the book was written. The next theme shown by Orwell is the corruption of language and its purpose for mind control. One of Orwell’s most important messages in 1984 is that language very important to human thought because it forms and limits the ideas people are capable of coming up with and expressing. If corruption of language happened in a political system, they possibly could alter language to make it impossible to even have a disobedient or rebellious thought, because there would be no words to think of them. This idea leads to the language of Newspeak, which the Party has introduced to replace English in the novel. This is a great example of how corruption of language is a main theme throughout the story. Another theme shown through the novel is the systematic dehumanization of people. In addition to controlling people’s minds, the Party also controls their bodies. The Party watches for any sign of disloyalty, as Winston observes, even a tiny facial twitch could lead to an arrest. Anyone who does manage to go against the Party is punished and goes through intense torture. After being put through weeks of this treatment, Winston himself comes to ...