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
Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. She called sex "our duty to the Party" or "making a baby". If you believe in social order at any expense as do fascists, then you will have to believe Winston Smith is a criminal. A common example of this is a teenagers choice of music, clothing etc to belong to the group. Although he had so called "criminal" thoughts before, the journal seemed to bring out the more daring ideas in him as to how to get free from the Party's reign. People become willing to accept the unacceptable until there conscience will no longer allow it. rs discretion to decide whether he is the criminal or just a victim of a tyrannical society. I believe that these and the other actions following his initial "criminal" offense are justified and that Winston Smith is not a "criminal". Because of his wife, he became as repulsed at the idea of sex with her as she was with him. His troubling conscience drove him to record his feelings in his illegal journal as part of his personal rebellion. The ultimate deception that the Party perpetrated on the people was the war the Party staged against it's own citizens using a created villain named Goldstein. The uncontrollable need to belong to a group sometimes drives people to compromise themselves. At the end of this novel the reader is left with the decision of where the crime lies. There is an account in the book where Winston is in a public cafeteria and longingly remembers a better time and how food was pleasurable then.
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