Ethical issues are a huge topic in our world. Ethical issues mainly go over morals, and whether doing a certain task can be considered okay. In 1984 the government does many things that can be considered unethical and morally wrong. Some of these ethical problems are when the government monitors the citizens without their knowledge or consent. The government also has laws that are unlawful. The police are only used to make sure the citizens are under control and are submissive to Big Brother. Many of these issues like privacy can relate to our own lives and how other governments of the world operate. In the totalitarian ruled Oceania, many ethical issues exist, one of which includes the invasion of privacy Big Brother creates. In this book,
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We see this happen in the real world all the time. For instance, in the Cold War era, America and The Soviet Union would use the media as an outlet to show how the opposing country was the true enemy. In 1984 the same thing happens year round, and ,more specifically, hate week. This problem seems like an ethical issue because does the government have the right to show the people what they think they should see? Do the people have a right to know what is actually happening in their own government? These are the ethical questions that arise when media is involved in a government. Media can pursue the opinions of the people, and if there is enough it can change their minds completely. Propaganda can change the minds of citizens for the personal benefit of the government. However in Oceania, the citizens do not know anything …show more content…
The point of the novel shows how totalitarian societies have no moral ethics when they rule. The government uses the tactics as they please, and like the end of the book shows, the tactics are effective. With morals out of the picture, ruling a society will be easier. Examples of this are evident all around the Globe; China, Russia, North Korea, and even America. In the end however, the citizens are more happy when they have less freedoms and once they are accustomed to the lifestyle they are living in. As they have been enslaved, the citizens of Oceania have also, in some strange way, been freed. Due to the fact that they do not argue with the government and except the policy that they must live in, the ignorance becomes an advantage to their lifestyle. As a reader, the lifestyle sounds horrendous and demonic. However ethical v.s. unethical does not seem to matter in the end. The only thing that does however, is the stability of the government, and the happiness of the people. Once everything falls into place in 1984 ethics do not
We see this happen in the real world all the time. For instance, in the Cold War era, America and The Soviet Union would use the media as an outlet to show how the opposing country was the true enemy. In 1984 the same thing happens year round, and ,more specifically, hate week. This problem seems like an ethical issue because does the government have the right to show the people what they think they should see? Do the people have a right to know what is actually happening in their own government? These are the ethical questions that arise when media is involved in a government. Media can pursue the opinions of the people, and if there is enough it can change their minds completely. Propaganda can change the minds of citizens for the personal benefit of the government. However in Oceania, the citizens do not know anything …show more content…
The point of the novel shows how totalitarian societies have no moral ethics when they rule. The government uses the tactics as they please, and like the end of the book shows, the tactics are effective. With morals out of the picture, ruling a society will be easier. Examples of this are evident all around the Globe; China, Russia, North Korea, and even America. In the end however, the citizens are more happy when they have less freedoms and once they are accustomed to the lifestyle they are living in. As they have been enslaved, the citizens of Oceania have also, in some strange way, been freed. Due to the fact that they do not argue with the government and except the policy that they must live in, the ignorance becomes an advantage to their lifestyle. As a reader, the lifestyle sounds horrendous and demonic. However ethical v.s. unethical does not seem to matter in the end. The only thing that does however, is the stability of the government, and the happiness of the people. Once everything falls into place in 1984 ethics do not