“In principle a Party member had no spare time and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not eating, working, or sleeping he would be taking part in some kind of communal recreations; to do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: own life, it was called, meaning individualism and eccentricity” (Orwell 82)
In this passage of George Orwell’s novel 1984, the idea of a dystopian world is conveyed through the structure and routine of daily life. The government is very active in peoples lives, they control your personal lives, they expect and demand that you do as they say. They strongly encourage sameness in the community. They drill into the minds of their members the mottos and values of the town. The state stresses sameness. They do not want you to be different, to have your own opinions, to be your own person. The state watches you all the time. They are active is your personal lives as it says, “there was never any alone time except in bed”. The community encourage you to be active in their community and to do things to benefit the good of it. There are no real social classes, but there is mentioned quite often through out the first part of the novel “A Party member”. The society categorizes the community with parties and demands specific requirements and expectations they must reform to, or else face consequences.
This passage speaks out against individuality comparing it to eccentricity. By doing this we see that the society does not promote individual thinking or personal expression. The society controls all aspects of time, thought and work in someone’s life.
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