The Giver Tyranny Essay

People have usually mistaken between tyranny and democracy and have chosen them to be synonyms whereas in the society which had been depicted by lowry Lois in the book The Giver these two words don’t look like synonyms and only one aspect is shown to the citizens of the society.

Tyranny had adopted for the community and it had limited most of the truth behind the back of the few leaders,moreover, tyranny leads to faster decisions and usually in tyranny points are not heard, however, in context to the Giver, the society was molded in such a way that neither could this happen nor could anyone know the secrets hidden behind the back of all leaders . Tyranny like in the giver has laid down a huge set of laws and had put down too many limits to avoid problems,conflicts, and war,as Charles Peguy once said ”tyranny is always better organized than freedom” which comes into action in here and the leaders chose tyranny to eradicate problems from the community and had been successful in doing so. In a tyranny, only one leader is there and has several other people leading sections under him this leads to fluctuation in the society.

In a democracy, we do have limits but also the right to be wrong which wasn't available while speaking in context to the Giver. The community had developed techniques to give …show more content…
Both aspects are crucial but in this case tyranny seems to be more dominating as having a nonfunctioning government is useless in front of a tyranny. “democracy and majority rule confer as an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical” the book well defines and shows a form of tyranny which had been modified to give the citizens whatever they needed to sustain and had close boundaries which would make one feel like sitting in a cardboard