1984 George Orwell

Human beings, personal memory and personal experience are all history that exists. "1984," by George Orwell, tells the story of Winston Smith (the protagonist), the thirty-nine year old man who is part of the Outer Party and is living in the mystical place of Oceania ruled by a totalitarian Party that monitors every movement of every member in their society. In regard's to Gary Alan Fine's news article, "George Orwell and the N.C.A.A.", the problem of erasing all the wins of Penn State's football victories from 1998 to 2011 because of a crime not committed by the actual team but, by one person. That is like saying a whole class of students participating in a game tournament should be stripped off of all their achievements, because one person cheated. The N.C.A.A. is wrong in the sense of vacating all the wins that were made by the hardworking team, and this is similar to 1984 because, changing history is controlling the past and by controlling the past, the present is …show more content…
is wrong in vacating the wins when only one person is at fault, not the entire Penn State's football team. The best indication of the effect of changing history, according to Gary Alan Fine near the end of his news article is that, "Building a false history is the wrong way to recall the past" (Fine 2). The past is important and is the one thing that stays in records people's memory. By rewriting the past wins of the Penn State's football team, people of the present will view the false history as the truth, not the real unchanged history. Covering up what happened and bringing honor to the team who did not actually won is not the solution. By vacating the wins, Penn State's football team's achievements had all gone to waste, when history should reflect the things that had happened, not the things that should have happened according to the N.C.A.A's imagination. As a result, erasing all the wins made by the Penn State football team is