Warnings That George Orwell Is Trying to Get Across To the Reader (1)

George Orwell is trying to tell the readers that someday in the future what is going on in this book may likely happen to us real world. It may not happen exactly like it did in the book or to this extreme, but there may be some significant events that occurred in the book that will occur in the real world.

Our own government in the real world may just become the way that the Party of Oceania’s government became. The Party members’ government was so controlling and kept a very close eye on all of its members. If a party member was doing something wrong, he or she may not have been caught right at that time, but sooner or later, he or she would have been arrested. This is just like when Winston and Julia meet each other. They start meeting each other very secretly for a while in hidden places, but then at one point they are finally caught by the Thought Police. It is proven later on in the story when Winston is already arrested that the Thought Police and O’Brien were already well aware of what he and Julia were doing. They had already known about the diary that Winston had been writing down his thoughts down in. One major thought that he had written in his journal was in huge, bold letters taking up at least half of a whole page.

It said:
"Down with Big Brother"
"Down with Big Brother"
"Down with Big Brother"
"Down with Big Brother"
"Down with Big Brother"

They were even well aware of what the two were doing at Mr. Charrington’s old flat that was above his antique store. There was even a telescreen in there. It was hidden behind an old portrait of Mr. Charrington’s. Orwell is trying to show that someday in the future, the government may become so controlling like it does in the story. A citizen of a country may not have any freedom and/or privacy pretty soon in the future like these members of the Party don’t. Orwell is basically comparing our people of the real world for the future to the members of the Party, Oceania. It is already slightly starting to become like Oceania in our own country after our own government is now able to listen to anyone’s conversations though phone lines. This like the telescreens that the government of Oceania allows in order to hear and see what their members are doing at all times.

The most shocking thing, which I believe, is that Mr. Charrington was not just an old man who appreciated antiques from the past, but he was a member of the Thought Police as well. When Orwell was revealing this shocking and interesting event, he was also trying to show that there may be one day that one may not even be able to trust another person, no matter how honest and trust worthy he or she is, especially if he or she is part of a government. In this case, Winston and Julia both trusted Mr. Charrington quite a lot, but he ended up being just another one of "them". "Them" as referring to the Thought Police just like the Thought Police is referred to in the story.