“The Censors”, written by Luisa Valenzuela, is a story about a Argentinian man who was trying to escape from the censors checking his letter, but later he was killed because of checking his own letter as a censor. In my opinion, this action is unfair. Throughout history, we can see that censorship has always tried to control people’s thoughts and rights; it has even resulted in more brutal outcomes.
Some countries like America have democracy, where citizens have more power than the government. They can even go against the government. But censorship is against this idea. It limits the way people think and feel. In this case, people cannot express themselves. A country that is against the ideal of democracy is a dead country, such as Argentina in the 1970’s. “......all letters pass from hand to hand and go through all sorts of tests in the huge censorship offices and that, in the end, very few continue on their way.” (Valenzuela, 411). This quote shows how serious censorship is. If there are bad slogans against the government, the people who write them will be punished badly; they may even be
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If people are under high pressure due to censorship, they will become stressed out, and this will result in a repressive society. “Media within North Korea-known officially as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea-are among the most tightly controlled in the world, and fall under the governance of the Korean Workers’ Party...... ” (bbc.com). Due to the above example, it is heard that North Korean people are afraid to talk about politics. They are also afraid to protest, and their living conditions are really poor. Because of censorship, they are never aware of the whole truth. Eventually, people will lose their trust in the government and each other. When they have no connection with the outside world, they will lose their self-confidence and won’t be optimistic in their