George Orwell's 1984-The Things That We Fear Ruin Us

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1984 - The Things That We Fear Ruin Us "You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized” (Orwell 6-7). In the novel 1984, author George Orwell develops the point: the people or objects we fear will, in the end, enslave us. However, countless evidence from today’s world, and even from Orwell’s novel, demonstrates that the things we love ruin us, not the things we fear. The fact that, in today’s world, the things we love have a greater impact on us than the things we hate or fear, disproves the view that the things that we fear ruin us. Technology, for instance, greatly impacts everyone’s daily life. It connects us to our friends, it allows us to create businesses, it provides us with entertainment, and it has already started to control us. An example of this is if someone loses their cell phone. They drop what they are doing and scour the earth until …show more content…
In 1984, Winston Smith talks to a woman by the name of Julia; together they form a plan to meet up in the woods near the train station (Orwell 95). Julia then begins to influence Winston’s thoughts by swearing and cursing the party, thus corrupting Winston’s thoughts, and endangering his life (Orwell 101-107). There was one point in the novel, where Winston realized he had rebelled against the party, thus showing that the things we fear cannot ruin us, "No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act" (Orwell 105). This disproves the theory that the things people fear the most ruin them, seeing as if that were so, then this scene would’ve never happened, as Winston would’ve been too afraid to act on his feelings do to the overwhelming fear brought on him by the
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