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1984 Human Connection

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It is true, our world has issues. We do not live in a perfect world, but it is undoubtedly a beautiful one. A world full of joy and happiness, where everyday, people around the world love, laugh, and cry together. Friends and families are emotionally bonded together to a point of inseparability. People can empathize with other. They can feel compassion, care, and attachment. All these attributes that make our world incredible come from human connection. It may not seem like human connection is that important, but science has proven that our brains are hardwired to connect with others (Brown). Human connection is what allows for people to share their good times with others. It is what makes our world so unique. It is the sole factor that binds …show more content…

The world of today is much different than that of 1984 because in our world today we have the freedom to show our true emotions which leads to human connection, while the world of 1984 does not allow for the freedom of emotion, thus ending human …show more content…

In today 's world, the freedom to show emotions is what connects people. Brene Brown, a researcher at the University of Houston, studies human connection. She has come to conclusion that people who show their true feelings and broadcast their honest self, are better equipped to connect with others (Brown). By presenting one 's true, bona fide emotions, people are received as relatable and therefore connect with others. In order to have human connection, there must be the freedom to express emotion. This assertion is true because human connection is based upon the sharing of feelings. When people understand what their fellow citizens are honestly feeling, those citizens become their friends, and they are able to connect through the empathy that is built by those true feelings. However, in 1984, the Party eliminates all human connection. At the beginning of the novel, Winston explains that facecrime is the act of wearing an improper expression on one’s face, and it is punishable by death (Orwell 62). Throughout the entire novel, characters are not able to show their emotions, as they are scared of engaging in facecrime. Because of this, friends do not exist in 1984. People only refer to others as comrades (12). This is largely in part

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1984 is an iconic and influential novel about the future but it relates surprisingly to the past. The oppression of the proles in 1984 is similar to the oppression of blacks during the civil war period because the class system and the attitudes of the oppressed but they are different because the way the people were oppressed. The oppression of the proles in 1984 is similar to the oppression of blacks during the civil war period because the proles and blacks were separated by birth into a lower class. As slaves were separated and oppressed because they were born black, the proles were oppressed because they were born proles. In this quote form 1984 you can see the oppression and separation of the proles from the other higher classes and how

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The people in 1984 were ruled from fear from the moment they were born to the moment they died. They didn't know that they were being dictated because all their history books were rewritten and twisted around the party made sure to either kill off any one who thought differently or try and brainwash them into thinking so. People wanted to protect their families from the unknown and the only way they knew how was to put their trust in the party and Big Brother. People today aren’t ruled be that type of fear and need to protect their families from the unknown we know most of our enemies,and we know that our military will protect us. Our history hasn’t been rewritten we know when we are being used for power and not the good of our country.

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In the novel 1984, outward conformity is crucial to the survival of the citizens of Oceania. One character in particular who practices this extremely well is the main character, Winston Smith. He not only conforms outwardly, but also questions his society inwardly, due to the overhanging fear that Miniluv will find and torture him. Winston constantly questions Big Brother and all of the laws that the citizens of Oceania are required to obey while also inwardly questioning his forbidden romance with Julia. Without this rising tension throughout the novel, 1984 would lose its suspenseful tone and would easily lose the focus of readers.

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In 1984, there is an allowance for individuality, but not an allowance of personality. Everyone has different names and jobs, but no one is allowed to think for themselves or have a personality of their own. Everyone acts the same: eat, sleep, obey the government, stay out of trouble, and repeat the process. “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to nar- row the range of thought? In the end, we shall make thought- crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

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Democracy is the one of the oldest of the most important aspects of a free world. Democracy allows you to have a functioning society with privacy and laws that protect you, without democracy the world will not be able to function. The government will run uncontrollably and have control over what you say and do. Within “1984” By George Orwell and The Pedestrian By Ray Bradbury are both about a futuristic oppressive society in which the protagonist, who are formed to the society and eventfully deviate from the norm of their respected society and become labeled as an outcast by their society’s.

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O’Brien’s use of starvation, the electric chair, and mental bullying serves as a crucial motivator for intelligent, problem causing citizens such as Winston to confess and repent willingly eventually. Finally, the use of cruelty by Big Brother reveals the inner and destructive conscience of the party in order to ensure that society is orderly and continually worshipping Big Brother. The suffering and eventual destruction of citizens such as Winston reveals that a free-thinking society is still intact, however, any government’s use of torture could and did destroy the will of a majority of those that were so horribly imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps across Europe. Therefore, the cruelty used throughout the novel “1984” functions in the work as an effective scare tactic that is able to exterminate an entire society while simultaneously creating a new master race that is intellectually void and completely subservient to Big

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As the world watched World War II emerge as one of the biggest wars in the history of the universe, George Orwell wrote 1984 to criticize the totalitarian approach of the socialist leaders in countries like Germany and the U.S.S.R. The book was written in 1948 when the act of communism became a dangerously threatening type of government to the citizens all over the world. In 1984, Winston, the main character of the novel, reflects on London’s dystopian society by creating his own diary, which is an act that brings him immense threat to the quality of his life. Even today, many citizens face the same types of situations that Winston experiences throughout the book. There are obvious parallels between the novel and America in 2016 in concepts

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