“What must be shall be,” is a famous line from Shakespeare that I learned in grade 10 from reading “Romeo and Juliet” that really resonated with me. This line of Juliet’s was something that I then decided to live by. To give you an idea of me, I have always gone with the flow and never questioned what happened, so this line gave me a motto for life. But, after reading George Orwell’s dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” I realised my motto and way of life was wrong, and that by restricting my power and individuality, I was preventing myself from truly living. The novel challenged the belief of mine to conform and showed to me the danger I had opened myself to by allowing myself to be controlled by a power. Orwell revealed to me the importance of individuality to protect us from the dangers of power. Most importantly though, the novel showed me the need for individuality we have as humans today, so we can challenge, grow and have the truth, so we do not continue on the hamster …show more content…
As to reach the truth, or what is fundamentally right, we need to challenge, which can only be done if there is differentiation in thought. Without challenge, without differentiation in thought, we lose our ability as humans to distinguish between the right and wrong, the facts and falsehoods. We give others this power to make those decisions for us, which I think is dangerous. The people’s loss of individuality to this power meant the loss of truth. The loss of humanity. Without challenging power to find the truth, and without having individual thoughts we cease to be human. Otherwise to me, we would just be robots doing and thinking what we are programmed to do. On a human sized hamster wheel, with never ending repression, and continuous repetition of