George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

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A perfect world can be defined as a world with no conflict, pristine streets, no pollution, to say there has to be nothing wrong with the world. Should a perfect world exist in our country, the United States? Well with a perfect world, it’ll mean we’ll have no pollution, our streets pristine, no crime, and government controls all. Wait government controlling us? Don't we have rights or individual freedom? Well in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the story depicts a utopian society in which government, or Big Brother, controls the history of Oceania and the thoughts of the citizens, often intruding in their private lives. This utopian society wants everyone the same, and keep their citizens in check about their government. The utopian society, …show more content…

Once born here, our government gives us the rights since. In the novel 1984 all the citizens of Oceania got their rights taken away by Big Brother, their government, dictator, or leader. No one had rights to begin with in Oceania, everyone had their rights taken away by Big Brother. Everyone had to obey the laws of Oceania and couldn’t speak or hear their voices out because Big Brother took it all away. The laws of Oceania did not even give the citizens the right to vote, the laws used in 1984 didn’t have votes of the people, Big Brother made the laws without the suffrage of the citizens of Oceania or the approval of the citizens. To put this as in a real life situation, Russia can be an example of Oceania. When Joseph Stalin held power in Russia, no one had their rights, all their rights had gone to the dictator. Russia’s violated many of the citizens privacy, by wiretapping phones and listening to conversations. Oceania had the same thing except wiretapping phones, they used telescreens. For example, page 33 of the novel, a telescreen appears and makes the citizens have a workout session to exercise. To say the telescreens eyeball and listen to the citizens. So how can this tie up with the United States? Don’t we have individual

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