1984, A Warning

What is the main message that you think that George Orwell is trying to communicate to you through 1984? Provide three quotes from the book to support your claim, and explain HOW those quotes support your claim.

I believe the main message George Orwell was trying to communicate through 1984 was a warning, a warning of the direction Western governments are heading. 

The first of the three quotes that support my claim is: 
"WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (Book 1, Chapter 1).

This quote supports my claim because it shows how controlling the government is of the minds of the people. This can be true in today's society.

The second quote, also in Book 1, Chapter 1, is:
"People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, and your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."

This quote supports my claim because it, again, emphasizes that the government has complete control of everything, even your life. Today, if the government hates you enough, you can disappear. 

Lastly, the third and final quote is:
"Already we are breaking down the habits of thought, which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother," (Book 3, Chapter 3).

This quote, the strongest of the three, is extremely powerful. O'Brien is clearly telling Winston that the government will control EVERYTHING. He even refers to the people as animals, to be treated with the same rights as a hen. He even goes to say that the Party can control what we love and what loves us, something we have always felt only belongs to us.

Obviously, George Orwell was trying to tell the world that if we do not watch out, we will end up with this situation. The scary part, is that he is not entirely wrong.