摘要：

乔治·奥威尔是英国著名小说家、记者和社会评论家。他的代表作《动物庄园》和《一九八四》是反极权主义的经典名著，其中《一九八四》是20世纪影响最大的英语小说之一。《一九八四》（1984）是英国左翼作家乔治·奥威尔于1949年出版的政治小说。小说刻画了一个令人感到窒息和恐怖的，以追逐权力为最终目标的假想的极权主义社会。本文从极权与人性的角度出发，结合小说内容，分析主人公反抗的心理因素和生理因素，极权社会压迫理性个体的残酷手段，并最终得出极权是人类社会中人性与自由的最大威胁。值得注意的是：在现实社会中，我们需要警惕这种极权现象的发生，避免在现实世界实现小说中的场景。

关键词： 极权；温斯顿；奥威尔；人性；威胁

Abstract:

George Orwell is a famous British writer, journalist and critic. His two representatives Animal Farm and 1984 are famous for their Anti-totalitarianism. 1984 is one of the most influential novels in the 20th century; it is published in 1949 as a political novel. This novel described a horrible and choking imagined society which regarded the pursuit of ultimate power as its goal. This thesis states its views from the perspectives of totalitarianism and humanity, and it combines the content of novel to analyze the psychological and physical causes of protagonist’s resistance to the society and some cruel methods of totalitarian rulers who used to suppress rational individuals, and it comes to the conclusion that totalitarianism is the most dangerous threat to humanity and personal freedom. Notably, in real world, we should aware of the appearance of such totalitarianism, avoid realizing the situations of the novel.

Key words: totalitarianism; Winston; George Orwell; humanity; threat

1. Introduction
  1.1 George Orwell and his work
In the novel 1984, George Orwell described a horrible society where the totalitarianism came to its summit. The society strangled human nature, deprived of personal freedom and controlled people’s thoughts. Life was on the border of poverty and boringness. But the most dreadful thing was that human-beings living in this society failed to distinguish right from wrong. By analyzing such a world where there was no personality, no love and no critical thinking, George Orwell gave us a warning that we should watch out for our society and strengthen our beliefs, leaving no chance to realize the situation of 1984 in our real world. 
Because of the widely spread of this novel, 1984 becomes to a code word for totalitarian country or the day in the future when the world suffers totalitarianism, and “Orwellism”, a word which continuously shows its appearance on international newspapers and magazines also becomes to a code word for such a totalitarian rule with characteristics of George Orwell. 1984 predicts the future world of human society and directs the spearhead at all kinds of totalitarianism, including capitalist society.
This thesis is mainly based on the analysis of the novel 1984, explaining the dystopia thought of George Orwell at great length by dissecting the main characters and their behaviors. And there comes to the conclusion that how totalitarianism persecute the mass in such a society.