The Effects of Alienation in 1984
Alienation is a main theme in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Alienation refers to the estrangement of an individual from another party. Alienation exists in many forms in the Orwellian society, and each form of alienation causes different effects on topics such as humanity and progress. Each person in the Orwellian society has the ability to escape alienation and work together to overthrow the government; however, Ingsoc uses alienation to bring everyone together, to make everyone work identically like machines. Although alienation supposedly brings forth progress, much of Ingsoc’s ways to unite the people of Oceania limit the progress in humanity. Furthermore, the effects of each form of alienation in Oceania are consequential to the people.
The alienation of Oceania in the rest of the world causes no chance for progress in the world as a whole. Oceania, in regards to the other two super-states, is alienated in the sense that......
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