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1984: Summary - College Essays

1984: Summary


Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which
independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society
who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common
good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to
justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of
the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in
this symbol. It was the centre of control. The Party has set its agenda of
completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the
complexity of human thought. They will try accomplish this through the
elimination of speech to a form where humans ...

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he is ethical and the Party is unjust but it is left up to the readers
discretion to decide whether he is the criminal or just a victim of a
totalitarian society. The first instance of Winstons "criminal" nature was
when he bought an illegal journal, quill and bottle of ink to record his
thoughts. Although he had so called "criminal" thoughts before, the journal
seemed to bring out the more daring ideas in him as to how to get free from
the Party's reign. This all indirectly led to his meeting with a woman
called Julia who shared his feelings and was either very brave or very
foolish because she was more open then he about her feelings. I believe
that these and the other actions following his initial "criminal" offence
are justified and that Winston Smith is not a "criminal".

My first set of examples as to the flaws in the Party government are how
they pitted family members against each other, and how the true nature of
the family was destroyed because of this. The controlling ...

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they
brought sex down to a level where the general public was repulsed by the
thought via the anti-sex league. The public continued having sex as it was
the will of the Party that people must reproduce. The degradation of sex
also kept the married and unmarried alike brimming with energy for hate
week, war marches and other fascist public activities which the people had
to attend. A specific example of the degradation of sex in Winston's life
was the account he made in his journal of his wife's attitude towards sex
and how she cringed at his touch. She called sex "our duty to the Party" or
"making a baby". Because of his wife, he became as repulsed at the idea of
sex with her as she ...

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