The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

CHAPTER V: CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGUSTIONS
 
5.1 Conclusions ...................................................................................................... 93 
5.2 Suggestions ...................................................................................................... 94 
BIBILIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................... 95 
APPENDICES 
Appendiks I Synopsis of 1984 novel 
Appendiks II Biography of the Author Related in 1984 
 
 
 

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CHAPTER I 
INTRODUCTION 
 
This chapter presents background, identification of problems, scope of 
problem, statement of problems, objectives of writing, and sequence of writing. 
1.1 Background 
Humans are social creatures. As social beings, humans cannot be separated 
from social interaction. So, the writer believes that a man always needs another 
man to fulfil his social life. Aristotle quoted in Alfian‘s article entitled 
Binatangisme dan Politik Kitastates ―Man is by nature a social animal an 
individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our 
notice or more than human‖ (Friday, 7th, 2014).  
Related to Aristotle‘s statement above, the writer believes that a human 
being is an individual social being simultaneously either naturally or by a 
notification by others. This statement also describes in Orwell's 1984 novel. In 
this novel, Winston, as the main character preferred his individual interests over 
his romance with Julia (his lover) after being tortured and the propaganda of 
O'Brien claimed that his body steadily decayed and decaying. 
―Look at the condition you are in! He said. ―Look at this filthy grime all 
over your body. Look at the dirt between your toes Look at that disgusting 
running sore on your leg. Do you know that you stink like a goat? Probably 
you have ceased to notice it. Look at your emaciation. Do you see? (Orwell, 
1961: 272). 
―You are rotting away,‖ he said; ―you are falling to pieces. What are you? 
A bag of filth. Now, turn round and look into that mirror again. Do you see 
that thing facing you? That is the last man. If you are human, that is 
humanity. Now put your clothes on again‖ (Orwell, 1961 :272). 

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Therefore, the writer thinks that a man will maintain the existence of his 
existence rather than his relationship with others, often in the urgency, humans as 
individual beings will be able to betray the people closest like lovers, friends, and 
even his families. 
Moreover, social individual life in 1984 novel is very strong, human 
reliance one to others disappeared in everyday, a member of the family demands 
to betray his family itself. That is one of several impacts of Party doctrine in the 
form totalitarian government system. Many people believe that totalitarian 
depicted by Orwell's novel 1984 is a dystopian. This novel wrote in 1947 
contained about what will happen in the future. In the history of England‘s 
literature in 20th-century, which at the time of World War I, the England was 
engulfed by the anxiety of influence of fascism which curb the continent of 
Europe(Luxemburg,  1991: 38). 
An Internasional journal discussed about the totalitarian threat. It was 
called by Orwell (in Caplan, Ed. 2006). 
There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power.
Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the 
masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle 
Group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and 
willingness to govern... A ruling class which could guard against all of them 
would remain in power permanently. Ultimately the determining factor is 
the mental attitude of the ruling class itself(1983: 170). 
From the quote above, it describesthat totalitarian regimes do not finish in a 
short time. The term previously known the death of Stalin and the Communist