Life, Liberty, And Property In 1984 By George Orwell

Life, Liberty, and Property are John Locke’s natural rights. According to Locke, these rights are what all men should expect to have, settling for less is unacceptable. In his mind, they are the fundamentals of freedom, without them we are slaves whether knowingly or not. In George Orwell’s 1984, we are shown a darker side of humanity where these rights are not given to everybody. In fact in the brilliantly terrifying society that Orwell portrays, those not of “the party” have almost no rights at all. Orwell’s masterful use of the characterization of those in the know and those not, his ability to create a character that relates to the common man, and the use of an overall allegorical reference to one of the cruelest dictators in history

What makes the main character, Winston, so unique? It’s very simple actually; he is the definition of average. He is a middle aged, slightly overweight, balding, man. He doesn’t possess a superior intellect, or an abundance of strength and speed. He is not an innovative genius or a courageous soul, the only thing that separates him and the any other guy walking down the street is that he is aware. He is aware that there is something wrong with the party, he is aware that there is more to the story then the party is telling him, and he wants to find the truth behind big brother’s lies.
“Bad news coming, thought Winston. And sure enough, following on a gory description of the annihilation of a Eurasian army, with stupendous figures of killed and prisoners came the announcement that, as from next week, the chocolate ration would be reduced from thirty grams to twenty.”(Orwell

Stalin. Orwell saw how Stalin ruled the USSR with an iron fist and wrote 1984 as a warning, the whole book is an allegorical reference to Stalin and his policies. The party in Oceania is very similar to the communist party in charge of the USSR. For instance one of the biggest fears of the citizens of Oceania is to be caught by the thought-police who infiltrate and collect information on criminals and traitors, these “thought-police” are very similar to the secret police Stalin used to scare the people of the USSR into following his rules. Traitors in Oceania as well as political rivals tend to be vaporized and all evidence of their existence is erased, much like how Stalin would throw his political enemies and anybody who spoke against him in labor camps in ice- covered Siberia where they would be worked to death. The Communist Party in the USSR was also quite fond of propaganda and not giving their citizens the full story, much like in Oceania where Big Brother is constantly trying to influence its citizens with Newspeak, its views on sex as a mere tool for reproduction and double speak, they are all ways to control the masses. The least subtle reference to Stalin is in the very description of the picture of Big