totalitarionism in george orwells 1984 as it compares to nazi germany

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Date In his novel 1984 (1949 , English writer George Orwell (1903-1950 warned readers about the dangers of on the fictional country of Oceania , which , ironically , bore striking similarities to Nazi Germany . Both Oceania and Nazi Germany were of law and ideology became a substitute for freedom of thought and conscience . Their respective leaders merged state and society to form a new morality (Powell , 88 . In this new morality ' ideology is the justification for the establishment of national , racist or social and class-oriented forms of community at

the expense of existing laws and morals (Powell , 88

Oceania and Nazi Germany were both governed by a patriarchal dictator who constantly monitors citizens for subversive ' behavior (Grey , 74 The tyrant of Nazi Germany , Adolf Hitler , was the f 'hrer - the absolute leader who would usher in the Aryan ' race . To achieve this goal , the Nazi secret police , the Gestapo , brutally eliminated Jews and dissenters . The ruler of Oceania , meanwhile , is Big Brother ' a despot who kept himself in power through the Thought Police . The Thought Police was the Party 's secret police , tasked with arresting and executing thought-criminals

The Nazis and the Party have the same idea of subversion . For these regimes , subversion ' does not necessarily translate to obvert rebellion . It could also mean deviation from any form of tenet (Grey 74 . The Nazis , for...