1984:Summary
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 idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the centre 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 theelimination 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, I believe that he is a victim of a system that is criminal. All through this book Winston's convictions lead us to believe that he is ethical and the Party is unjust
Winston was a willing part of this deception until his realization that what he was doing was immoral. 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. Parsons who's child turned him in for saying " down with big brother " in his sleep. Another example od pleasure deprivation is how they brought sex down to a level where the general public was repulsed by the thought via the anti-sex league. It is the same style of government which both the author and myself have experienced and it is the one which serves its people the most effectively. but it is left up to the readers discretion to decide whether he is the criminal or just a victim of a totalitarian society. Winston wasn't satisfied with the status quo regarding sex. People become willing to accept the unacceptable until there conscience will no longer allow it. He was a product of his humanity and it should not be a crime to be a human. This character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. They would report their spouses or children if they said anything improper, did anything improper, displayed a facial tick or any other abnormalities. One example of this is how the food was intentionally verybland and tasteless. This calculated deception lead to senseless suffering and death of numerous Party citizens and Proles. 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.
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