Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of blind loyalty was embodied in this symbol. It was the centre of control. The Party has set its agenda of completely controlling every single human mind by narrowing down the complexity of human thought. They will try accomplish this through theelimination of speech to a form where humans can no longer think for themselves. These future citizens would not be able to commit any crimes against the Party. There is no possible way these humans would even think "criminal" thoughts to begin with since they had no knowledge of any crime from personal experience or history.
The main character of this book is Winston Smith. Even though he is portrayed as a criminal, I believe that he is a victim of a system that is criminal. All through this book Winston's convictions lead us to believe that he is ethical and the Party is unjust
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 things. Winston was a willing part of this deception until his realization that what he was doing was immoral. His troubling conscience drove him to record his feelings in his illegal journal as part of his personal rebellion.
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.
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