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1984 Orwell Study Notes Reveal a Blueprint For What May Now be Happening in America.

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In accordance with the classic novel that it has become, the 1984 Orwell study notes are available to all and sundry over the Internet, as well as in the more up-market printed versions.

The study notes themselves make enticing reading.

The duplicity of the Thought Police agents, the rebelliousness of the central character Winston, the self-condemning subservience of his neighbor Parsons, all capture the imagination vividly.

Orwell intended his novel as an analogy of what he saw happening in his own world in 1948, and it strongly reflected his anti-totalitarian views.

He had been involved in fights against the fascist Franco regime that had begun in Spain, but he was also vehemently anticommunist.

A naturally rebellious character during in his early years, he felt deeply concerned about the dangers to civil liberties that he saw coming in Europe.

In his novel 1984, the plot and the characters are close to the truth about what was then happening in communist regimes such as Soviet Russia, yet also uncomfortably close to what is happening today in certain western countries.

The relentless surveillance that he portrays is an especially good example.

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Real Life Parallels the Notes

For Orwell, this invasion of privacy was accomplished by the two way television screens installed in every home, and the use of technology in the form of patrolling helicopters and the like.

The Thought Police monitored every form of dissent against the dictatorship of Big Brother.

The punishment was torture and then death.

Although the technology may have undergone considerable changes between Orwell’s novel and today’s reality, there are alarming parallels with the United States of this century.

The privacy of citizens is now under attack like never before, from the Global Positioning System controlled by the military, to miniature RFID chip implants approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

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America Already a One Party State

Recent antiterrorist laws now give law enforcement agencies the power to spy on anyone upon the mere suspicion of any activity linked to terrorism.

The Big Brother one party system of 1984 was perhaps never more clearly demonstrated in America, than when both Republicans and Democrats bowed down to Bush to pass the horrendous Patriot Act of 2001 without even reading it.

At that moment, there were no longer two main parties in the United States and the peoples’ representatives were just voting the will of the wealthy elitists that wish to control the country.

The two parties seemed to have been replaced by just one party and when Bush told it to jump, its only response was ‘How high?’

Perhaps even more pertinent than this, the 1984 Orwell study notes yield precious information on the characters who bring the whole drama to life.

For example, the condemned hero of the piece, Winston Smith, is the reflection of millions of people who strain against repression without the courage to take action themselves.

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Bringing it on Ourselves

Smith is pushed into action by chance encounters and incidents, and is finally trapped by O’Brien, the double agent who fools Winston into thinking that he can really rebel.

Many people in Winston’s situation do not even get as far as action, but simply stand by and watch as their constitutional rights are worn down by a government that now believes it can invade the privacy of citizens with little or no resistance.

Nevertheless, in many of the 1984 Orwell study notes, the pick of the bunch as far as parallels with America are concerned, is probably Parsons, Smith’s neighbor.

Stupidly compliant with the dictatorship, Parsons is arrested on trumped-up charges, but doggedly approves his own arrest and impending punishment as part of the system that he supports.

As the 1984 Orwell study notes show, the success of the regime depended as much on such citizens who never questioned the actions of their totalitarian government, as on any particular part of the government itself.

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