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Setting

By: Tanner Lindle

 

     1984 is set in near-future Oceania. One cannot expect privacy anywhere, as there is a telescreen (that monitors behavior visually and audibly) in almost every room. A setting to make a character like Winston becomes lucid. The society that Winston and the people of Oceania live in, is very controlled that has some similarities to that of today’s china. China has a group whom “most powerful monitoring body is the Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department (CPD), which coordinates with General Administration of Press and Publication and State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television to ensure content promotes party doctrine.”(CFR) is controlling the very essence of the people’s easiest ways to express their freedom of speech through communication. This is very similar to1984 in that the people cannot freely discredit the government or say anything bad about the government without having serious consequences.  The group that is most similar to the CPD is the “The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts.” (Orwell8)  who also controls the people’s way of growing and developing their ideas about the world and themselves. Both societies are similar in that they take the individuality of a person that makes them unique and tries to cut everyone out of the same mold to be the same. He brings fear into the people that they have to think before they can say something that could affect their life. Winston was always living in that constant fear of being caught from defying the rules of the government that limited on the choices that he was allowed to make (Orwell 97).  With the same thing happening in china that no one "Journalists have basically been dealt with ... and now basically won't speak out," he said”(RFA) will rise up against the government for fear of what might happen to their job, family and security.  Living in constant fear of not knowing when you could be caught and sent to jail for over stepping your personal freedom is a line and Winston and the people of China had to face every day.  One slip up would send you to the slammer. Like the thought police finally catching Winston in the old room in the Proles distract for conspiracies against the government. Winston had to pay for every crime that he committed against the government. (Orwell187)  With the people of china facing the same thing with “The Nanfang group again drew the national spotlight in September last year, when the top management at the group that publishes the widely read 21st Century Business Herald were arrested” trying to expressing your freedom will get you chained up because the strict government that these people have to abide by. China and 1984 both have similar setting that control the way the people are allowed to act and what they are allowed to say and strongly impact what they fell and believe because they are told everyday what they can and can’t do whether it is right or wrong the people believe it to be right because they have heard it enough.