Nineteen Eighty-Four The Year Of 1984 By George Orwell

In the dictionary literature is defined as “bodies of writing that use artistic expression and form and are considered to have merit or be important.” Literature is an art present throughout history which reflects the writer and their world; authors such as George Orwell, Toni Morrison, and Han Kang advocate about issues that affect human rights through literature. A person is able to defend the human rights of all people by producing writing or supporting literature that discusses issues that may harm or help people. In the books, by using different genres, usage of language, characters, setting, and plot the author can display multiple perspectives for the audience to understand important issues or events.

Nineteen Eighty-Four the year of

George Orwell was a democratic socialist who was anti-totalitarianism and believed in an active government. During George Orwell’s time WWI had ended and WWII began later on. These time’s influenced George Orwell’s writing, producing the works that criticize political viewpoints which he believes hurt society and fundamental human rights. “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell is a science fiction novel set in a totalitarian state called Oceania in the year 1984. Oceania is governed by an all-controlling Party that brainwashes Oceania’s people to be obedient to their leader Big Brother through the use of language and propaganda to control thought/expression. George Orwell reflects the usage of propaganda and language from reality into the science fiction world of the story. One instance is the use of slogans by the Party. Cathy Lowne from Britannica Encyclopedia summarizes the use of propaganda slogans by writing,” The Party has created a propagandistic language known as Newspeak, which is designed to limit free thought and promote the Party’s doctrines. Its words include doublethink (belief in contradictory ideas simultaneously), which is reflected in the Party’s slogans: “War is peace,”

If one has a pair they will fit in and be loved, according to Pecola from the book “The Bluest Eye.” “The Bluest Eye” is a novel written by Toni Morrison published in 1970. Toni Morrison is an African-American author who is known to write about Black American experiences (mainly woman characters) in an unjust society. “The Bluest Eye '' is a novel that speaks about internalized racism and demonization of black people in America’s culture. Through the characters in the novel and narrator Toni Morrison is able to show different elusive forms of racism, specifically within one’s own community. In chapter four it is stated by the people of Lorain, “The birdlike gestures are worn away to a mere picking and plucking her way between the tire rims and the sunflowers, between Coke bottles and milkweed, among all the waste and beauty of the world – which is what she herself was. All of our waste which we dumped on her and which she absorbed. And all of our beauty, which was hers first and which she gave to us. This quote demonstrates how the community Pecola (the main character) lives in has a negative trajectory towards itself. The people in the town feel rage and dislike for their own race and social positions throughout the novel and they end up taking it out on Pecola and her family. In this quote we get to see a whole community affected by this view and not just one