Oceania In Our Society Today
In our world, our society thrives off of the freedom to do whatever they want. It is, most of the time, taken for granted that we don’t even know what it’s like without it. In 1984, where all of their freedom is taken away, anyone alive today would not survive. In Oceania, Party members are forbidden to have any type of relationship, any kind of thought that is their own, and they are only allowed to say what is appropriate to the Party. They are also placed into jobs and all conversations are seen and heard. In the present-day United States, we are allowed to love and marry whoever we want, we can say whatever we want with the protection of our rights, and our thoughts mould us into the person we become. We are …show more content…
In the world of 1984, the citizens are forbidden to be free in anything. The Party is so against freedom that part of their slogan is “Freedom is Slavery” to ensure into the people's minds that their lives would be worse if they were independent. The people in Oceania grew up with this slogan and are used to the restrictions in their expressions. With these restrictions comes Newspeak, a language used in Oceania to eliminate thoughtcrime and to restrain anyone from any type of judgement about the Party. "‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?' ... "'Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word'" ... "'Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.'" (Orwell 67) A character named Syme was how discussing how great the Newspeak dictionary is to Winston. However, what he does realize is that the Party is trying to ultimately extract any free speech. It is the people’s right to say and think whatever they feeling and this oppressive government called Big Brother is taking that away. In the U.S. today, freedom of speech is taken very seriously by a majority of the population. This country, too, has some restrictions to speech, categorizing into “politically correct” and “non racist” but that doesn’t mean one cannot say anything they please. There may be subjects that are considered “frowned upon”
In our world, our society thrives off of the freedom to do whatever they want. It is, most of the time, taken for granted that we don’t even know what it’s like without it. In 1984, where all of their freedom is taken away, anyone alive today would not survive. In Oceania, Party members are forbidden to have any type of relationship, any kind of thought that is their own, and they are only allowed to say what is appropriate to the Party. They are also placed into jobs and all conversations are seen and heard. In the present-day United States, we are allowed to love and marry whoever we want, we can say whatever we want with the protection of our rights, and our thoughts mould us into the person we become. We are …show more content…
In the world of 1984, the citizens are forbidden to be free in anything. The Party is so against freedom that part of their slogan is “Freedom is Slavery” to ensure into the people's minds that their lives would be worse if they were independent. The people in Oceania grew up with this slogan and are used to the restrictions in their expressions. With these restrictions comes Newspeak, a language used in Oceania to eliminate thoughtcrime and to restrain anyone from any type of judgement about the Party. "‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?' ... "'Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word'" ... "'Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.'" (Orwell 67) A character named Syme was how discussing how great the Newspeak dictionary is to Winston. However, what he does realize is that the Party is trying to ultimately extract any free speech. It is the people’s right to say and think whatever they feeling and this oppressive government called Big Brother is taking that away. In the U.S. today, freedom of speech is taken very seriously by a majority of the population. This country, too, has some restrictions to speech, categorizing into “politically correct” and “non racist” but that doesn’t mean one cannot say anything they please. There may be subjects that are considered “frowned upon”