Freedom In 1984 Research Paper

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What is freedom? The right and the power to speak freely of what’s in the mind? To be comfortable with showing yourself without feeling the need to hide who you really are? To show love? Or as Winston said in 1984, to be able to say two plus two makes four? (Huxley, 81) To me, freedom is being able to define freedom itself and expressing it to others, without facing consequences, freedom is being able to express your own thoughts and true feelings without restraint. Since the party’s goal is to obtain absolute power, they need people to have no individual thoughts or feelings, so they will follow them blindly. Ingsoc, the political party of Oceania in 1984, also known as the Party, forbids freedom and basically does everything in order to do so to reach their goal. …show more content…
They brainwash the people by saying if there is freedom, they will become slaves of their thoughts, which are developed from freedom, and will focus on achieving their ideas instead of focusing on achieving for the Party. When freedom is taken away, that means they don’t develop their own ideas, which means they have nothing else to focus on but to believe and follow whatever the Party says because the only information that the people of Oceania can find is filtered and controlled, and they have no reason to question them because they were never exposed to any other knowledge. This is made easy because of various reasons which will be explained later on. Therefore, with only the knowledge of the how great the country is, the Party can twist the reality and the people will still follow and do what they say. Saying ‘Freedom is Slavery’, is evidence of oppression at its extreme. The freedom that the Party restricted can be classified into two categories, freedom of thought and speech, and freedom of