What’s more important: freedom or privacy? Freedom allows you to have your own say in what you do but it does not allow you privacy. With freedom, you’d still be watched and monitored. Everything that you say and do with be tracked in order to make sure you are not harming others or yourself. The characters in the book are monitored by the the Party and the Thought Police. In the book, 1984, by George Orwell, freedom is highly limited.The characters in Orwell’s 1984 do not experience freedom as evidenced by rules, security, and the controlling power of the Party. Through controlling their mind and through physical abuse, the Party was able to control the people of Oceania into conforming to their rules and giving up their freedom. Most citizens have been feeling negatively to the Party. For example: “ he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed…” (Orwell 7). This was what …show more content…
In the book it states, “He is too intelligent. He sees too clearly and speaks too plainly. The Party does not like such people. One day he will disappear. It is written in his face.” (Orwell 30). In this quote, it is talking about Winston and how he is too clever so the Party did not like it. The Party then abducted Winston and brainwashed him because they had the power to do so; they have the power to do anything. Whatever the Party told you to believe, you would have to believe it, you had no choice. The book says, “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” (Orwell 46). Even though you know the facts, if the Party said it was wrong then you have to follow what they say. No one had a say in anything, the Party was too