Résumé:
This thesis aims to analyze the vision of dystopia in George Orwell‟s novel,Nineteen Eighty-Four. This novel is widely regarded as a science fiction work and the best dystopian novel of the twentieth century. In this novel, Orwell describes the Oceania‟s society which is dominated and ruled by an authoritarian regime called „the party‟. In this society, the party controls every aspect of people‟s life through using many techniques like the four bureaucratic ministries, the thought police, thoughtcrime which is the worst and most dangerous crime, doublethink, slogans, Newspeak language, memory hole, Two Minutes Hate, Hate Week and the Junior Anti-Sex League. The party gains more power through the use of those mechanisms which are seen as effective weapons work to influence the citizens. Simply, in Orwell‟s society individuality is broken, freedom is absent, truth does not exist, thinking is not allowed, making sex is forbidden, language is destroyed, rebellion is illegal, the emotions of love are devoted only to Big Brother and the emotions of hatred are directed to enemies mainlyEmmanuel Goldstein and the opponents. In addition, the regime relies on media, technology and propaganda to monitor citizens‟ minds, activities, movements and feelings like the use of telescreens, hidden microphones and propagandized posters.
