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1984 Analytical Essay

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“You're canceled!” Being canceled is a new judgment in our society that makes one feel condemned by their community. When you are faced with your own identity being boycotted, one’s trust in the world is lost. In 1984, by George Orwell, Winston faces the fact that he is not able to live his chosen life. He learns that the nation of Oceania under the Party’s command has done a “terrible thing the party had done was to persuade you that mere impulses, mere feelings, were of no account, while at the same time robbing you of all power over the material world.” (164) One of the main human qualities is to be your own person, to make your own decisions, to pursue your goals, to love another based on your own choosing. When those rights are taken from …show more content…

Orwell shows us how people can express loyalty to one another through the behavior of the proles, the poorest people in Oceania. Winston, who is not a prole, is resisting what is being asked of him. Throughout the book, Orwell writes a version of our present day theme of cancel culture. In 1984, George Orwell describes how the Party is controlling the minds of its citizens. CONTEXT All around the nation, there are displays of the three most important lies in Oceania, “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” (26) What Winston is describing is a society that does not let you have the right to feel what you want to feel. The Party uses language to reconstruct your thoughts and decide what your mind should think about. They lie through their slogans and describe opposite views through language, history, and hate. The Party’s goal is to reshape how one thinks by changing what people read and hear. Winston’s job in the Party is to rewrite history and change it to be just what the party wants it to be. In Winston’s individual mind, he paints his own ideas for the Party. He becomes aware that, “the birds sang, the proles sang, the Party did not sing.” (221) Winston often comes up …show more content…

My friends told me that I couldn’t like Taylor Swift, my favorite artist, because she attended a comedy show where all of the proceeds went to a humanitarian relief agency in Gaza. I was scared that if I listened to her I wouldn’t feel accepted by my friends, I was being threatened by my peer’s “rules” to the point where I would change how I acted. This is exactly what the Party in 1984 was trying to do, get people to believe in this “cancel culture" to the point where their minds are molded by the threat of being

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