Zeitoun In George Orwell's 1984

In human societies, real or imagined, we find it critical and in some cases detrimental to preserve sacred ideas and values in human culture. Since birth, humans create goals with intentions that reflect these principles they create and hold dearly. In George Orwell’s 1984 the protagonist, Winston, is a citizen in a society in which individual thought is shunned but somehow a sliver of independency remains in Winston. Dave Eggers’ Zeitoun displays the title character’s determination to keep the morals and goals he possesses that are held close; Eggers, and the past, puts multiple obstacles in the path of Zeitoun to reevaluate his virtues. Since Zeitoun is mostly fact and 1984 fiction, it is easy to separate the works into different categories

Government in the novel has a control over it’s citizens dictating what they think and do on the surface, but Orwell shows what’s beyond the physical, but the mental. Orwell displays the morals of Winston sometimes taking over his being and choices, he states, “For a moment he was seized by a kind of hysteria. He began writing in a hurried untidy scrawl: theyll shoot me i dont care theyll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother - He sat back in his chair, slightly ashamed of himself, and laid down his pen.” (Orwell 20). This journal entry of Smith’s shows his uncontrollable hatred towards the Party, articulating something he could never orally speak of or would lead to his own destruction. Feeling ashamed of his natural thought shows the constriction of Winston’s wants and needs. Smith wants to object with hierarchy but also wants to remain living, revealing one question of the novel, how far should or can he go? Within the way this governmental system is set up, the citizens are isolated in thought, if they have any, rendering it nearly impossible to oppose. Orwell

Orwell later on states,

“His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the truth had got to be defended” (Orwell 83).

Principles within Smith are not palpable but somehow remain inherently, showing the natural human need to think and act independently. Even though this need may be strong, Orwell clearly states humanity, especially one individual, cannot triumph wholly over a higher being. Winston knows this, that the Party is stronger and will defeat the natural human being, but is blinded by his ethics. Orwell teaches in 1984 the lesson of equality and balance of power, but somehow states there is a hopeless way the world will be always divided into ranking classes. He sort of displays how the world will never be able to change towards the progressive. Maybe the main lesson Orwell wants to teach is that the world is and always will be corrupt and that human beings are organisms in the world