The Totalitarian Achievement and Maintenance of Absolute Control Over Man in George Orwells 1984 and Ismail Kadares the Palace of Dreams (original) (raw)

In this study we have subjected Orwell‘s classic dystopia 1984 and Kadare‘s most important anti-totalitarian allegory The Palace of Dreams to a comparative analysis focused on their representation of the essential characteristic of totalitarianism – its urge to achieve and maintain absolute control over all aspects of the individual‘s life. By juxtaposing and comparatively analysing the key features of totalitarian control in Orwell‘s fictional Oceania and in Kadare‘s allegorical rendition of the Ottoman Empire, we hope to throw a more discriminating light on the fundamental conception of totalitarianism that is found in