George Orwell's novel "1984" depicts a dystopian society where the government, Big Brother, monitors and controls every aspect of citizens' lives. The presentation provides context on the novel, defines dystopia, and highlights key dystopian elements in the story like a lack of individual rights and freedom. It also discusses other examples of dystopian literature and compares "1984" to Orwell's "Animal Farm" in their critiques of totalitarianism.

1. 1984” by George Orwell:
A Tale of Dystopian
Society.
Present by Mansi Gujadiya

2. Personal Information
• Name:- Mansi B. Gujadiya
• Roll No.:- 12
• Enrollment Number:-4069206420220013
• Sem :- 2 (M.A)
• Paper No.:-107
• Paper Code:-22400
• Paper Name:-The Twentieth Century Literature :From the
World War 2 To the End of the century
Topic:-’1984’by George Orwell: A Tale of Dystopian
Society.
• Submitted to:- Department of English MKBU
• Email:- mansigajjar10131@gmail.com

3. Points to Pounds
• Introduction of Novel
• Meaning of Dystopia
• Dystopian Elements of ‘1984’
• Social Class in novel
• Other Examples of Dystopian Literature
• Today’s Example
• ‘Leila’ webseries
• Comparison between ‘1984’ and 'Animal Farm’
• Conclusion

4. Introduction of Novel
• This novel Was written by English author George Orwell and
published in 1949.
• This novel as a warning against totalitarianism.
• The chilling dystopia made a deep impression on readers,
and his ideas entered mainstream culture in a way achieved
by very few books.
• The book’s title and many of its concepts, such as Big
Brother and the Thought Police, are instantly recognized
and understood, often as bywords for modern social and
political abuses.

5. Meaning of Dystopia
• •According to Oxford dictionary
• an imagined state or society in which there is great suffering
or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-
apocalyptic.
• “environmental disaster is the backdrop to this modern
dystopia”

6. Dystopian elements of ‘1984’
• In this novel people don’t have rights to ask a question in their own
government, if anyone does that’s offence. The police and the military
were scrutinized all the time . .
• The people can’t go out without government permission, they never
make a conversation with anyone, even Their co-worker.
• They don’t have the rights to love and had sex.
• They cannot decide anything on Their own because the “Big Brother is
Watching You”.

7. Social class in ‘1984’
Big Brother (an idea
not an individual)
• Proletarians
Inner Party
(O’Brien )
• Outer Party
• (Winston Smith)

8. Other examples of dystopian literature
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Leila Novel by Prayaag Akbar

9. Today’s Example of Dystopia
• Cameras every where you go
• Text and cell records being stored
• Internet searches being tracked
• People being persecuted for their beliefs
• The caste system in India
• The Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
• China’s Social Credit System
• North Korea is often cited as an example of a dystopian society,
where the government exercises total control over every aspect of
citizens’ lives.

10. ‘Leila’ web series
• Leila is an Indian Hindi-language dystopian drama web series directed
by Deepa Mehta,Shanker Raman and Pawan Kumar.
• This series Based on the 2017 eponymous novel ‘Leila’ by Prayaag
Akbar.
• Leila follows the story of Shalini, who tries to find her missing daughter
in a totalitarian regime in the near future.
• It stars Huma Qureshi, Siddharth, Rahul Khanna, Sanjay Suri and Arif
Zakaria.
• The six-episode series premiered on 14 June 2019 on Netflix.

11. Comparison between ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’
‘1984’
• This novel is known as modern
dystopias.
• Novel has critiqued the politics of
last century
• Totalitarian regime of “Big
Brother” exploits an individual
character.
• This novel is about Predictions the
situation and life of a person who
is cruelty browbeaten and
brainwashed in the end in the
favor of the dictatorship.
‘Animal Farm’
• This novel Regarded as political dystopias
• this novel describe Oppression and cruelty
and is created in animals’ lives which also
makes it allegorical dystopian work with full
of satire.
• Here Totalitarianism plays its vital role in
making animal society dystopia.
• Orwell shows the totalitarian nature of
Stalin in form of his animal character
Napoleon and shows how he exploits the
whole society to gain power.
• Napoleon somehow gets control and
becomes a dictator.

12. Conclusion
“Who controls the past controls the
future. Who controls the present
controls the past.”

13. Works cited
• Dystopian Elements in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340448832_Dystopian_Elements_in_George_
Orwell’s_Nineteen_Eighty-Four.
• “Nineteen Eighty-Four.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.,
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nineteen-Eighty-four.
• Park, Michael Y. “’1984’: A History of George Orwell’s Dystopian Masterpiece.”
HistoryNet, HistoryNet, 21 May 2022, https://www.historynet.com/history-of-1984-
george-orwell/.
• The Effects of Totalitarianism and Marxism towards Dystopian Society in George Orwell’s
Selected Fictions.” 1Library, https://1library.net/document/yr25xe9p-effects-
totalitarianism-marxism-dystopian-society-george-seleected-fictions.html.
• “Leila Review: Netflix Dystopian Drama Is Gritty, Powerful and Brave.” India Today, India
Today, 16 June 2019, https://www.indiatoday.in/television/web-series/story/leila-
review-netflix-dystopian-drama-is-gritty-powerful-and-brave-1549911-2019-06-16.

14. Thank you
“Big Brother is Watching You”.