Democracy is a model of government which I have chosen to compare. It is the same style of government which both the author and myself have experienced and it is the one which serves its people the most effectively. If you believe in social order at any expense as do fascists, then you will have to believe Winston Smith is a criminal. If one takes a more humane approach, you will have to look at the numbers of people that were hurt or killed by this "Party Government's" actions. Humans are a social beings and they need interaction and contact with other humans to thrive. The uncontrollable need to belong to a group sometimes drives people to compromise themselves. A common example of this is a teenagers choice of music, clothing etc to belong to the group. A more extreme example are religious cult members such as David Koresh's Branch Dividians who even voluntarily excepted the order to kill themselves. People become willing to accept the unacceptable until there conscience will no longer allow it. This is what happened to Winston Smith. He was a product of his humanity and it should not be a crime to be a human.

It is important to mention that there were two classes of people, Party citizens and Proles. What rules apply to the Party citizens did not necessarily apply to the lower class Proles. They government did not care about the Proles who were not important to them. Although Proles were allowed to drink any alcohol and gamble, this was not acceptable for Party citizens. This was part of the denial of pleasure. In order for the people to believe the Party's perversions of the truth, the Party had to make their fiction reality. The Party slaughtered people , burned books, shredded and altered documents in order to control information. Winston Smith's job was to alter old government documents, birth certificates and many other

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