1984 Political Spectrum
A political spectrum, is a x and y axis, that gives you an idea of a political party’s ideologies, where the x axis represents the left as “change” with government intervention, supplied services. the right wing represents maintaining, where there is free market, fewer services, and lower taxes. For the y axis, it represents the social scale, with the top being authoritarian where it is a lot of control of the government, and on the bottom where liberalism is, it represents personal freedom and liberty. The difference between right and left on the x axis, is that it mainly focuses on how the government is giving the citizens more financial and economic liberty as well as the contribution of government services, as the left of the spectrum represents supplied services and government intervention, while the right represents free market and lower taxes but fewer services supplied by the government. As for the differing variables when comparing the top and bottom of the y axis, it is simply the amount of how much freedom and liberty the government gives their citizens so that is all the difference in that field. In the novel, we can see that the INSOC government takes action in constantly having their citizens monitored and watched as well as them having a big issue with people disagreeing with the political parties “ideologies”, as we can see when Winston talks about the thought police and how people get vaporized. In regard to where I believe Big Brother and the INSOC government lays upon the political spectrum, I would say it would be on the authoritarian side, because we see that the government is usually very controlling over its citizens, and for the x axis, I would place it closer to the left wing, because from how we know how controlling the government is just over the freedom of its citizens, I would say that INGSOC wouldn’t be representing lower taxes and a free financial market.