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1984 Orwell Freedom Analysis

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“ WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (PG 4, Orwell). The three slogans of the Party in George Orwell's book 1984. Oceania claims to be free, with no written laws, sounds like freedom right? Freedom is just being allowed to do whatever you want, isn’t it? No! Freedom at it’s heart is having absolutely no conditions or expectations over one's thoughts, action, or beliefs/feelings. Oceania may not have written laws but what it does have is a whole lot of conditions and expectations. The Party strives for mind control, to control one’s thoughts, the one thing they can’t do. Winston, feeling hopeless due to the suppression of free thoughts, says, “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”(PDF 162, Orwell) The thought police would be on anyone’s tail that they expect had thoughts that they didn’t like. Winston is later arrested by the thought police and taken to the Ministry of Love, his encounter with his neighbor Parsons. Parsons was taken in …show more content…

O’Brien said to Winston after one of his torturing session, “We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us…We burn all evil and illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him ourselves before we kill him.” (PG 255, Orwell). Meaning anyone who doesn’t believe or feel the same way they do will be broken as a person and ultimately killed. People are not even free to believe or feel how they please, they have to conform to a certain criteria. Winston didn’t conform, they broke him down and beat him to a point he was a shell of a man. He went from hatred toward big brother to a conformed zombie who, “won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (PG 298

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Yash Patel Mrs. Choi AP Literature October 2015 1984 Dialectal Journals for Part 2 Text Response 1. “In front of him was an enemy who was trying to kill him; in front of him, also was a human creature… He had indistinctively started forward to help her,” (Orwell 106) This quote shows that even in this time where they live in a life where they are being manipulated, Winston is still living in a time where he is experiencing hatred, but still maintains what keeps him normal or humane, which keeps him separated from everyone else. This hate is showing that people still have hate for each other and still want to kill each other but it also shows the true human he is by helping her when she was threatened.

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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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When the narrator makes this statement, it is one of few times the reader doesn’t hear from Winston’s perspective, and it says that he “won the victory over himself” showing how the party broke Winston down to the point where he believes that he was the problem. This demonstrates a totalitarian power and ability to manipulate to the fullest extent because of how the party rebuilt Winston and others into party supporters. In the quote it states Winston, “loved”, by big brother therefore the party too, but not that he was loyal to the party or liked, that he loved the party, love is one of the strongest forms of admiration love is strong. The goal of the party is to love big brother no matter what, in order for this to work, it is to psychologically manipulate everyone. The placement of the quote that Winston says at the very end of the book is very crucial to give it more significance to the meaning of the book and the power behind the psychological manipulation, proving that in the end, under a totalitarian government, they will get what they want once in control.

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Again the mentality of compliance with the orthodoxy is established throughout; instead of Winston having the freedom to believe what he wants, it seems as though he is brainwashed to adhere to what is right as declared by the Party. Through diction and tone, the portrayal of the scenario causes Winston to instinctively conform to everyone’s actions thus leading to the conclusion that a uniformed ideology is spread throughout the

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The world of George Orwell’s Oceania is an authoritarian society where the cultural hierarchy includes the inner party, the outer party, and the proles. By definition, an authoritarian society has no governing body to protect the rights of citizens. The outer party members of Oceania have no rights except the right to love and obey Big Brother; the inner party members are compelled, on pain of death, to love Big Brother. The only “citizens” that have any rights are the proles, the lowest of the low in Oceania. They are considered to be free like weeds growing in a meadow.

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Throughout the novel, Winston constantly references the fact that ‘Today there were fear, hatred and pain’ and that in this society of Ingsoc ‘No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred’ and this is displayed in many, various ways. An example of this is when Winston writes about when he went to see a film stating that the ‘Audience were much amused by shots of a great huge fat man trying to swim away with a helicopter after him’ and that ‘there was a wonderful shot of a child’s arm going up up up right up into the air…and there was a lot of applause from the party seats’. This displays the extent to which

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Emma Breidenbach Prof. Weatherill English 1021 March 1, 2023 Constitution Essay First Amendment in Oceania Essay In George Orwell’s 1984, Oceania lacks so many freedoms from the Bill of Rights in the U.S. Constitution, that even on, such as Amendment One, the part about Freedom of Speech, would help the economy of Oceania so much. In Oceania, there are no freedoms to the Party members at all, however, the government believes that the Proles are not smart enough to be an issue to the wellness of the Party, that they allow the Proles to have most freedoms.

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He was shocked that those words had come out of his mouth. While he is frightened by this new environment, he explains to Winston, “I don’t bear her any grudge for it. In fact I’m proud of her. It shows I brought her up in the right spirit, anyway”(Orwell 233). This proves that the government has influenced people to enforce these beliefs as if they are a part of the “Thought Police.”

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Joseph Goebbels once said,”Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their freewill”. This statement is proven to be true in 1984. The author, George Orwell, creates a fictional dystopian society in which the population is manipulated into thinking they live in a great world, whereas the government has full control over them. In 1984, George Orwell’s prime message, supported by the article called Liberty in North Korea by Hae Re, was the lack of individualism gives power to the applicable leader, which is conveyed using the characters speech and symbolism. Orwell’s dystopian society showed the author 's message through what a character was saying and symbolism.

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Freedom is when you are able to do what you want, when you want, being worry and trouble free. In George Orwell 's book, 1984, some of the characters, like Winston, do not have freedom due to the fear instilled by the Thought Police. The Thought Police, which are affiliated with The Party, prevent the occurrence of Thoughtcrime, much like the law enforcement system system in the United States. The Party they choose for Winston a career that he might or might not be suited for. He is not even able to pursue a marriage partner that he wants to spend his life with, The Party chooses for him.

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In Oceania, individual freedom and autonomy are deemed dangerous and destabilizing to the Party's authority. By presenting freedom as a form of slavery, the Party discredits any notion of personal agency, convincing citizens that true freedom only exists within the confines of the Party's ideology. " Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." - George Orwell, "1984". This mental phenomenon is a powerful tool employed by the ruling Party to manipulate and control the minds of its citizens.

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Throughout the novel, the entirety of Oceania’s population lives under an umbrella built by the Party to shield its citizens from knowledge harmful to their reign. By removing unwanted information and placing the desired beliefs in front of their citizens, the Party correctly creates a delusion. In order to limit their creativity and freedom of thought, the Party continuously repeats the monotonous mantra, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (Orwell 4).

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During a daily exercise known as the Two Minutes Hate, all Party members view a video usually featuring a speech denouncing the Party’s ideals and advocating for freedom and democracy. Even though Winston secretly supports these principles, he feels compelled to and even cannot avoid joining the frenzy of the Hate, entering a blind but abstract rage. He mentions that, “And yet that rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp. Thus, at one moment Winston’s hatred was not not turned against Goldstein at all, but, on the contrary, against Big Brother, the Party, and the Thought Police….(Orwell 14). This is how Winston’s fear differs from that of other people’s.

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Winstons universe is filled with humans who act like and are treated like rats. when the time comes Outer Party members and Proles will become drones- inhuman cogs in the Partys machinery. Winston and his dear citizens are rats trapped in Big Brothers cage if forces such as those represented by Big Brother are allowed to rule then they are no better than senseless

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