1984 Good Vs Evil Essay

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The Big Brother controlled dystopia that Winston lives in is the representation of humanity’s evil side. Humanities evil side really is the worst parts of us that makes us human. Controlling, manipulative, spiteful, selfish, harmful, saddistic are characteristics of evil proccesses done by humans. Difference between an "evil" person and a "good" person is how much these traits persist and dominate over the good traits. Big Brother and the inner party members express what we would see as evil. The strong sense of control and manipulation in there ways relate to humanitys evil side. “Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” pg.279 This way of thinking in our society is seen as controlling and destructive, we would think of a person with these traits as evil. We live in a society that is a democracy and the people in the society all have …show more content…

The actions done by inner party members are for the benefit of the party not for the people much like other dictators have done. Now when you’re born it isn’t decided whether or not you’re good or evil. Your environment and upbringing really set you on how you interact with the world. This is when The Party can do its most damage, targeting the youth; the future. Big Brother manipulates the children as they are very impressionable, Big Brother wants its views to be upon the children. If the children are obssesed with Big Brother and follow in it's darker ways they have now made a new generation of loyal patriots. "Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendacy whatever to rebel agianst the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected to it." pg