tool to reshape people within a society. This is a credible argument but the exact opposite can be said too; not censoring something can also reshape a society. By viewing censorship through the second argument, censoring George Orwell’s book, 1984, is beneficial to society. 1984 was created in 1949, and the book passes a harsh judgment on overreaching totalitarian societies, specifically Stalin’s totalitarian society at the time of the book’s creation. The leaders of this dystopian society abuse
autonomy. Freedom of speech represents a privilege of humanity, and the vast majority of citizens in such a society feel safe to at least communicate their concerns with the government. In George Orwell’s 1984, a dictatorial figure known as “Big Brother” and the power-hungry Inner Party create a world of utter paranoia, abolishing these paramount human virtues of love, sex, and freedom of speech in favor of a totalitarian form of socialism called “Ingsoc.” Naturally, the loss of such virtues and the Ingsoc
In 1984, George Orwell creates the protagonist Winston Smith to be an intellectual but rebellious guy who doesn’t just take your word for it, which ultimately leads to his own downfall. Winston’s life changes significantly when he realizes that he hates Big Brother and wants to resist the party. Instead of dismissing these ideas, he can’t help but to divulge in them even more. Knowing what the outcome of his actions might be, he still defies authority by buying, keeping, and writing in the diary
purpose, a value to every life, no matter what its location, age, gender or disability.” Sharron Angle One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nestby Ken Kesey is a story told from the perspective of Chief Bromden, a patient in a mental hospital who suffers from paranoia and hallucinations. He’s been in the hospital longer than any of the other patients, being in the institution for the last ten years. Bromden sees society as a thing he calls combine,and sees the hospital as a place where people who do not want
food chains and the American food production system. From George Orwell a new perspective is written in “1984”; a negative utopia is created when the tyrant government distorts history and truth to keep it’s citizens compliant. So will the truth set you free or will what you are told to be true control you? Reviewing these three sources can show a broader view on the manipulation and deliverance of “truth” and the results. 1984 by George Orwell