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Totalitarianism Would you want to live in a society where you were watched every second, where you didn’t have the freedom to say or think freely, or where “if you wanted to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself”? In the novel 1984 the main theme is this horror of living in a totalitarianism society. The entire novel paints a horrifying picture of what a fanatical, state-controlled society can do to the individual. Broadly speaking, an authoritarian system is one in which society is governed by a dictator or oligarchy not constitutionally responsible to the people. Totalitarianism is something of a sub-category of authoritarianism where the ruling group has complete and total control over every aspect of life, whether personal or public, and the individual is expected to conform. Totalitarianism differs from dictatorship or tyranny in its mobilization of political participation, its quest for the complete restructuring of both the individual and society, and its aim for unlimited, not just political, control. There are many tools the government employs to create stability, and in the novel the author presents the tools to the reader. The main tools