Freedom isn’t easily obtained, most of the time people risk their lives fighting for it. Freedom is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, as Americans we have those privileges granted to us by our constitution. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, he talks about the future of a society based on war and oppression, controlled by a corrupt government that strips those rights from its people. It's seen in the novel that the citizens of Oceania do not have freedom because they fear constant observation from the Thought police, persecution from the party, and punishment for unwritten crimes.
To begin with, how can they have freedom when they constantly live in fear of the Thought Police? The purpose of the Thought Police was to keep track of those that were being rebellious against the government. A perfect example of this is, in the novel 1984 it states,”How often, or on what system, the Thought Police …show more content…
It's the same for other countries you break the law you have to pay the price. As for in the novel 1984 the consequences are more brutal. To demonstrate, in the novel 1984 it says,”The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed”( Orwell 26). Therefore what this was able to show the punishment for committing these thoughtless crimes was to be killed. The citizens weren't given a fair trial or weren't given the choice to serve time for their crime. Another example would talk about the punishment for it,”Thoughts and actions which when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations”(Orwell 124). In that event this was able to show that punishment was so cruel to the people of Oceania. Not only that but this showed suffering to the people as well as what they had to go
To begin with, how can they have freedom when they constantly live in fear of the Thought Police? The purpose of the Thought Police was to keep track of those that were being rebellious against the government. A perfect example of this is, in the novel 1984 it states,”How often, or on what system, the Thought Police …show more content…
It's the same for other countries you break the law you have to pay the price. As for in the novel 1984 the consequences are more brutal. To demonstrate, in the novel 1984 it says,”The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed”( Orwell 26). Therefore what this was able to show the punishment for committing these thoughtless crimes was to be killed. The citizens weren't given a fair trial or weren't given the choice to serve time for their crime. Another example would talk about the punishment for it,”Thoughts and actions which when detected, mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations”(Orwell 124). In that event this was able to show that punishment was so cruel to the people of Oceania. Not only that but this showed suffering to the people as well as what they had to go