The Partys Denial Of A Persons Natural Rights :: essays research papers

The novel 1984 touches on many disturbing aspects about the denial of a mortals natural refines. In todays society people are granted sealed rights which the government or anyone else gage not take away. These rights are the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. In the novel 1984 the government which the people of Oceania live on a lower floor has taken away all of the rights of people, including natural rights. The right to life has been taken away in the sense that a persons life is the fellowship. A person is born for the party, works for the party, and dies for the party. Liberty is taken away by not allowing the privacy of thought or action. To coin the phrase "Big companion is watching you". The right of a person pursuing happiness is unquestionably taken away because all forms of pleasure (games, sex, laughter) are illegal. The government promotes nauseate and unhappiness.     The life of a person living in Oceania is stri ctly assureled. A person does not choose what they do for a living, or who they concord with. The party is the center of everybodys life. The only reason anyone marries or has children is so that the children can live for the party. The children grow up learning how to defy and betray everyone for the party. Children pull up stakes tell on anybody, even their parents if they see them acting in a unorthodox or peculiar way. When Winston was in the Ministry of Love he discovers that a co-worker of his, a man by the name of Parsons, who had been turned in for thoughtcrime by his own daughter. This is a quite disturbing incident because Parsons was grand of his child and happy that he had been sent to the Ministry of love before he had committed any other thoughtcrime. He is a prime pillow slip of a person whose entire life was for the party and for Big Brother. yet though Winston and Julia were enemies of the party their lives were still spent doing work for the party. They would still introduce in the two minute hates and would still do their jobs, which both helped the party brainwash more and more people. No one ever outwardly betrayed the party. Liberty can be defined as exemption from control of another, freedom from external restraint, and the power of choice. All of these definitions defy the very hindquarters of the party.