Living in a society where the government takes all the power over its people and with limited freedom of expression is detestable. A totalitarian society in George Orwell's novel 1984 touches many disturbing aspects on the denial of a person's rights. People's lives, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are all controlled by the Inner Party, which governs the people of a province called Oceania in order to keep them from rebelling. 1984 is a compelling novel; for it represents an important guide to life for all human beings. It also teaches us that living in a totalitarian government is dangerous because it's like living in a world of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons. Futhermore, it gives us the warning to the government systems and individuals regarding how society should not be controlled by any single supreme power. .
In the beginning of the story the main character, Winston Smith, everywhere he goes he is watched by the telescreens, and everywhere he looks he sees the face of the Party's omniscient leader, the figure is known as Big Brother. The Party controls everything, even the people's history and language. The Party is currently forcing the implementation of an invented language called Newspeak, which prevents the possibility for political rebellion by eliminating all words related to it. To me, a person's right should never be defied; therefore it frightens me that a government could ever control the people in such a way. Perhaps the method "Doublethink- that Big Brother designs has brainwashed people, Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. Therefore, privacy does not exist in this society because all the thoughts and actions are recorded by telescreens at all times. .
Winston is a man who works in the Ministry of Truth, the department of the State concerning itself with the rewriting of history so that all historical facts agree with the present state of Oceania.
I walk with society and against it, and I have the freedom to do this. I would not be able to write such an essay if I didn't have my freedom. ... Light liberates darkness the same as freedom liberates slaves. ... No one knows the truth concerning God, religion, or existence, but the freedom to seek the truth like I have has made me whole. ... Freedom is there for anyone even slaves. ...
"Remain under control of our own decisions", Gods will is for us to have free will and the freedom to do good and avoid evil. ... God gave humans a soul, a spiritual existence that distinguishes us from plants, animals, and other created elements. ... Human existence may be characterized as freedom. Freedom is the essence of being human, seen in actions of self- consciousness, thinking, understanding, weighing options, deciding, acting this way and not that. ...
The Baggage of Freedom From what I understand reading Jean-Paul Sartre's work Existentialism is philosophy that places emphasis on individual existence, subjectivism, and freedom. ... Freedom does not come alone. Along with freedom come responsibilities. ... Existence suggests freedom where mankind is open to a future that is determined by choice and action. Choice is inescapable and essential to human existence. ...
With that in mind, it is easy to determine that freedom is the steel of America today. ... Today, many nations are jealous of the freedom that we enjoy as Americans. Although no country offers its people the same liberties found in America, those that experience freedom of sorts long for the freedoms expressly given to us by the Constitution. Freedom is the foundation of American society. ... Just as guns, germ, and steel enabled the growth of America, military, morality, and freedom make its continued existence possible. ...
Is the freedom of the citizen promoted or threatened by the institutions of the social contract? ... Rousseau observes that, "the force and liberty of each man are the chief instruments of his self preservation"(on the social contract, Bk. 1, chapter VI, p8) and asks how might man pledge these things "without harming his own interests and neglecting the care he owes to himself"(On the Social Contract Bk.1, chapter VI, p8) that is, how might a man give up some or all of his natural liberty to a group, in the hope of gaining greater freedom, without alienating or enslaving himself or, how m...
But I feel that in order for me to live freely I need to place my life and existence in the hand of a higher being. ... I can experience only my own freedom. ... The problem of "freedom as such" has no meaning. ... To face with the insignificance of existence, what keeps us from suicide? ... Otherwise we would be forced to conform to the mode of inferior existence. ...
Among the teachings discussed include; the concepts of justice, equality, community, the universe, freedom, brotherhood and the place of women in the society. ... God gave man the power and ability to help him realize the goal of existence in accordance to his will. The concept of freedom in Islam, applied to social context would create a better world than what we have today. Freedom is a concept that denotes a situation where there is no limitation. ...
"The sub-man feels only the facticity of his existence"(44 Ethics). ... "Fundamentally as a man's fear in the face of existence may be, though he has chosen from his earliest years to deny his presence in the world, he can not keep himself from existing, he cannot efface the agonizing evidence of his freedom... He rejects his own existence, and therefore he is inconsistent. ... He asserts it in relationship to other existences (other people)" (60 Ethics). ... He is indifferent and hides from his existence and all reality. ...
Freedom has ultimately been stripped of citizens in Huxley's society, due to extreme conditioning. ... Freedom has ultimately been stripped of citizens in Huxley's society, due to extreme conditioning. ... Freedom is ultimately sacrificed for what leader Mustapha Mond calls satisfaction. ... Due to the conditioning that has taken their freedom away, they are practically emotionless beings. ... Everyone now looks up to a God which has not done anything to benefit their existence, merely just the existence they life in. ...
The existentialist Jean Paul Sartre's framework of freedom is describes the "confined woman"" conveyed by Iris Marion Young as being radically free. ... Jean Paul Sartre's thesis that humans are radically free starts of by his argument that existence precedes essence. ... Sartre synthesizes his points with by describing a duality of existence in the world which distills down to two types of qualifications: objects or beings-in-itself and conscious beings or beings-for-itself. ... Humans, according to Sartre, are beings-for-itself since Sartre argues that our only non-freedom is chanc...
