1984 and the totalitarian society Living in a society where freedom of expression is limited is by no means pleasant. A totalitarian society is a good example of such a society, because although it provides control over the people, it can deny them great freedom to express themselves. George Orwell's fictional 1984 society is also a metaphor for a totalitarian society. Communication, personal beliefs, and individual loyalty to the government are all controlled by the internal party that governs the people of Oceania in order to prevent them from rebelling. Today's American society is much more democratic. This contrasts with Orwell's society of 1984, as communication, personal beliefs, and the loyalty of the people to the government are all determined by the individual. In order to keep the people of Oceania in line with the wishes of the ruling Inner Party, the Inner Party controls many aspects of people's lives. Communication, for example, is controlled for the benefit of the nation. Newspeak is a modified version of language that is imposed on people in order to limit their expression. Syme and Winston, two middle-class workers from Oceania, discuss the concept of Newspeak. Syme reveals that he supports the system, demonstrating how he has been brainwashed by the Inner Party that enforces the system. "It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words... You don't really appreciate Newspeak, Winston... Don't you see that the very purpose of Newspeak is to restrict the range of thought? Ultimately, we will make the thought of the crime literally impossible, for there will be no words to express it (p. 46) "It can be detected from this quote that the people of Oceania, as that group, has been brainwashed by the Inner Party to use only that. Newspeak. Syme, for his part, understands the purpose, and he always complies with the system because he was trained to do so. The concept of Newspeak is designed to control citizens' personal beliefs by limiting their form of expression, as Syme explains. But when the system of government is not followed, the Thought Police are used to prevent thoughts that oppose the nation. "How often, or on what system, the Thought Police tuned in on an individual wire was anyone's guess. It was even conceivable that they were watching everyone all the time. (p. 6)" He doesn't There is no doubt that - both through Newspeak and Thought Police - the 1984 system of government has sufficiently prevented people from thinking against it. When all this surveillance is put on people, they learn to conform to their country and end up automatically valuing it. At the end of the story, after Winston is accused of thoughtcrime by the Thought Police and tortured, he finally conforms to the general thoughts of Oceania. "He had finally achieved victory over himself. He loved Big Brother. (p. 245)" This quote indicates that the inner party did everything necessary to preserve Winston's loyalty to the nation. Even Winston, who at one point was against his government, is now "determined" to support him and love his leader. The government of Oceania went to great lengths to change Winston's mind, and as always, he got what he wanted. The America of 1997 is very different from Orwell's America of 1984 because, on the one hand, free speech is a dominant factor in American communication. In conversations as well as in newspapers and magazines, a variety of views and opinions are openly expressed. Censorship is not enforced to a high degree. As 1984..