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Analysis of George Orwell's 1984

Epoch's of homelessness are generally characterized by society/culture existing as a chaotic entity, or there is a threat of chaos, and a period of great uncertainty by the civilization as a whole. In George Orwell's 1984 there exists a very interesting dynamic where all the answers are essentially provided to the masses, a good example would be how history is tailored to fit the narrative being pushed by Big Brother, but the world they live in is very chaotic. Citizens are generally wary of trusting one another for fear of being ratted out to the thought police, and as a result there is a sense of disunity in the society depicted in the book. As such the citizens of Oceania live in an epoch of habitation, a term coined by Buber to depict a period in time where a society has no urgent need to question current truths and no real ambiguity as to what human beings purpose is on Earth, but they also exhibit characteristics of an society currently in an epoch of homelessness. The sense of habitation within the society in 1984 is essentially forced onto the citizens, with thought police doing their best to monitor what people think, and so the sense of understanding typical in an epoch of habitation is shoved into the citizens face as a method to try and control them. Orwell used this as a commentary on how religion was used as way to unite and control a large group of people within the USSR/Spain. In 1984 the citizens are fed a consistent feed of information on how powerless, and how dominated they are by Big Brother, which creates an atmosphere where the average citizens are afraid to even think about a universal truth (i.e. Big Brother) as anything but an unchangeable aspect of life.


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