1984 #1

The afterwords of 1984, is written as a warning to the readers for in the future. The afterwords is supposed to tell them what can and cannot happen in their society and what to be aware of. The human race is capable of many things and that is what these afterwords are supposed to warn the readers of.

Orwell tries to warn us about conformity that could happen in the future in his novel. During the novel, everyone was told to act, dress and think a certain way. It was unacceptable if you didn't. Also, there would be punishments. However, there still were certain people that acted out against their government and these people were used as an example of what would happen if you did too. The people that acted out were often never seen from or heard from again and were taken out of the records in Oceania. Orwell was trying to warn us against conformity in his novel by showing the negative side of things.

Not only does Orwell try to warn us against conformity but he also tries to warn us about the past. In the novel, the past did not exist to the people of Oceania. It changed every day. There were jobs where it was your duty to change the records like Winston did. The past had changed so much that no one knew what the truth could be. The warning Orwell gave was a good one because he was right. No one can ever know the truth about the past. Yes, we may know to some extent what has happened but our society is living in a cycle. Orwell was trying to warn us so we could avoid the negative aspects of society, but we didn't take that. We are in another recession like we were a few decades ago. If we had looked at the past and analyzed it a little more carefully we may have known how to avoid this situation and stop the cycle that we are in.

The last warning that Orwell gave was about the layout of the government. When you look at it, it is a small group or party controlling a mass amount of people. The Unites States is set up this way still. The president and his cabinet are the small group that controls everyone and then there is congress which would be similar to the outer party who knows what is going on within that society but maybe not all of the little secrets that are involved with it. Lastly is the majority of the people who think they know what is going on but are really being lied to and tricked by the other two groups. These people were known as the proles in the novel.

George Orwell wrote this novel in order to give a warning to the future about what to and not to do. He thought we should study the past closer in order to have some sort of truth in what we are saying and make sure our records stay alive and that we shouldn't conform because conformity can cause problems in societies. Especially in ones like ours.