Abuse and Use of Power in 1984 1984 is a novel full of abuse of power and how it affects the individual and the society around him. This article is about how the power-hungry Party abuses its power and how this affects everyone around it. 1984 also talks about association in all its forms: sexual union, marriage, family formation, choice of friends and community consensus. In 1984, the Party or government always finds a way to make itself appear to be the most absolute power of any other being or country. They do this by establishing rules that they believe will help them, but they also say there are no laws. A great example of how they apply the laws they want is when he states that Orwell's Book is not so much an examination of any kind of utopia as an argument, made at a very high intellectual level, about power and corruption (113). In 1984 there are plenty of cases where someone is forced to make a decision because they are afraid to make the choice, as Julian Symons implies ("Nineteen Eighty-Four Is About the Misuse of Power"). In one instance in the novel mice were brought into a room in a wire cage and feeling the risk of being attacked by them, Winston gave up his adoration of Julia (Orwell 114). This novel is filled with the absolute tyranny of a government that wants everything to be in their favor and they want it to seem like they are never in the wrong. Throughout the novel they constantly refer to their Newspeak dialect and the fact that their language will be dominant and no other dialect will be spoken in a few years, one way the novel supports this is that Ms. Symons implemented this by telling us which is a stifling, suffocating world to live in. It is a world in which every word and every contemplation is censored… Freedom of speech is unthinkable (“Nineteen Eighty-Four is about the misuse of this is supported in the text of the article “Nineteen Eighty-Four 60 Years Later”, the will to power is easy to understand, but the will to obey is the problem we have as humans and as a society. This can apply to today's society in many ways and also to many people in this world. Some of today's leaders want absolute power and today's generation have a rebellious mentality to not listen to whoever is in charge, eventually having this kind of mentality could be useful if another nation decides to attack, but today's society should be wise about who shouldn't and who should listen