1984 by George Orwell: Challenging Relationships and Power Play

1984 by George Orwell explores the challenging relationships between different sets of government agencyplay. It ultimately maneuvers subordinates into positions where it is able to hold power against them, shaping the wants and desires of the powerless. The national awareness of this use of power is nil, as everyone struggles to be the perfect party member, yet as individuals, the desire to hold what is beyond their win calls them, and members of the public strive to find the pieces of their independence.Orwell places a normal suit into a world where every nerve of life is dominated by a power so indestructible, swear created is scarce. The protagonist, Winston, is concerned with individual license and expression, and these two issues control his journey through the book. Winston struggles to discover his individuality, with the knowledge that the moment he began to separate from the public thought, he was a dead man. Winston holds onto hope, writing in his journal towards th e beginning of the text, If there is hope, it lies in the proles. The vapid reality hits Winston the moment he realises the proles (short for proletarians, the lowest class in this society) are of no hope at all. The statement, that the proles can be granted intellectual liberty because they have no intellect , brings the truth to light. If we perspective the entire lower class in 1984 as one individual, it portrays the helplessness of the proles against the Party, against Big Brother, the larger powers of society.The panache in which Winston describes the lower classes, it is not difficult to view them as one whole, one more character in the text. Another failed idea of hope is that of the younger generation. Often used in other texts as a positive replace in regime, 1984 turns the children into the armours of betrayal, abandoning even their own families to the Thought Police, as Parsons children do to their father while he sleeps. By creating a situation which mocks reasonab le hopes, 1984 alludes to the issue of exposure of the individual once again.This irony is similar to that in the poem Ozy Mandias by Percy Bysshe Shellie, who creates an irony through change in history. The persona declares I am Ozy Mandias, king of kings/ look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair These two lines juxtapose the next, which but states Nothing else remains . Just when a power thinks it can survive even God, shown through the capatilisation of the M in Mighty, time destroys his works, leaving Two vast and trunkless legs of stone standing in the defect . Although the irony is cutely different in technique, the emphasis remains in the power driven dexterity they are obtained. Through the systematic indoctrination of the children in 1984 to preserve Big Brother for the future, leaving no hope of change, so too does Shellie through writing this poem preserve the legacy of OzyMandias. And so sure is Ozy Mandias that his delineation will survive that of Gods, so too is modern societys hope in their children. This irony leads the individual on, leaving the reality of the situation too late to escape it.