1984
Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idea of blind loyalty was formed in this symbol. It was the center of control. The Party has set its agenda of completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the complexity of human thought. They will try accomplish this through the elimination of speech to a form where humans can no longer think for themselves. These future citizens would not be able to commit any crimes against the Party. There is no possible way these humans would even think "criminal" thoughts to begin with since they had no knowledge of any crime from personal experience or history. The main character of this book is Winston Smith. Even though he is portrayed as a criminal, he is really a victim of a system that is criminal. Throughout the book Winston's actions lead us to believe that he is ethical and the Party is unjust but it is left up to the reade
My first set of examples as to the flaws in the Party government are how they pitted family members against each other, and how the true nature of the family was destroyed because of this. The controlling intentions of the Party were reflected in how children were used to spy on their parents. The toys given to the children such as ear horns were used to listen in on the conversations of their parents. Through groups and activities that were provided , the children were actually taught how to spy and were given justification for this act. They were given the title of "Child Hero" when they denounced their parents and reported them to the thought police. The children felt it was perfectly acceptable to tell on their parents to the authorities even though it meant punishment for their mothers and fathers. When Winston was in jail he met a colleague named Mr. Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. Husbands and wives were also affected. They would report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, improper actions, displayed a facial tick or any other abnormalities. It is important to mention that there were two classes of people, Party citizens and Proles. What rules apply to the Party citizens did not necessarily apply to the lower class Proles. They government did not care about the Proles who were not important to them. Although Proles were allowed to drink any alcohol and gamble, this was not acceptable for Party citizens. This was part of the denial of pleasure. In order for the people to believe the Party's perversions of the truth, the Party had to make their fiction reality. The Party slaughtered people , burned books, shredded and altered documents in order to control information. Winston Smith's job was to alter old government documents, birth certificates and m
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