CAP: Draft By analyzing Anthem,1984, and the North Korean Documentary, we can see that when society puts in rules and regulations that takes away the individuality from a person living in that constructive society, the person will eventually grow out and not allow the society to sway them in a path of life that the person does not want to go towards. In the novel Anthem, the main character, labeled "Equality 7-2521" by the State, chooses to challenge conventional authority as he learns that he has a joy of experimentation and discovery, an over powered feeling of human love. Which also challenges the fairness of liberty and also the happiness of his self-interest. “And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not …show more content…
Winston’s first rebellion act is the diary where he writes over and over again “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER.” But he goes further by having an affair with Julia, another party member, renting a room over Mr. Carrington’s antique shop where Winston conducts this affair with Julia, “They were both breathing fast. But the smile had reappeared round the corners of her mouth. She stood looking at him for an instant, then felt at the zipper of her overalls. And, yes! It was almost as in his dream. Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated.” Winston was later on arrested and tortured until his thoughts of Individualism and rebellion were gone. He still had thoughts of rebellion but he obeyed big brother. “He obeyed the Party, but he still hated the Party. In the old days he had hidden a heretical mind beneath an appearance of conformity.” Even though, big brother tortured Winston almost to a harmful death, he did not allow them to control his
Returning to his diary, Winston then expresses his emotions against the Party, the Thought Police and Big Brother himself; he questions the unnecessary acts by the Party and continuously asserts rebellion. Winston soon realized he had committed the crime of having an individual thought, “thoughtcrime.” The chapter ends with a knock on Winston’s door. Significant Quotes “From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (Orwell 7). “But there was a fraction of a second when their eyes met, and for as long as it took to happen Winston knew— yes, he knew!
1. "My happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to an end. It is the end."
In both 1984 and Anthem we have two major plotlines that mirror each other: a man and a
Every part of life is regimented and controlled, but the only crime is ‘thought crime’: independent thinking and individualism. Big Brother is the figurehead of the Inner Party, and throughout the book, it is heavily implied that he may not really exist. The people are divided into Inner Party members, who control the government, Outer Party members, who make up the middle class, and Proletarians, or Proles, who make up the uneducated lower class. He utilizes strong but vague descriptions of the world around Winston to hint at the state of the world without directly saying it. He describes a bright cold day, which seems to perfectly depict the world's bleak state in a sort of indirect way (Orwell, 1948).
with the criminal and decided to go on a personal crusade to restore individualism to his world.
Have you ever read a book or seen a movie set in a dystopian society? Well the book “Anthem” written by Ayn Rand is about the main character Equality 7-2521 breaking away from the teachings of his dystopian society and finding his true identity. Ayn Rand is a brilliant writer. Equality realizes that collectivism is a way to strip him, Liberty, and all their brothers of their individuality, happiness, joy, love and freedom. Equality comes to this realization from internal conflicts he has with himself.
One example of rebelling against the party is that of Julia’s sexual escapades. She plots and plans to have sex with many of the different party members in order to find release in her otherwise boring lifestyle and by doing so she increases the amount of mass personal rebellion within the party’s regiment. After Winston and Julia are done having sex in the woods for the first time, he asks her how many other men has she done this with. She told him that she had done it with “scores” of other men and Winston is delighted to hear the good news. He feels that the more men she has had sexual encounters with makes the party weaker because those men don’t really feel committed to their party. Julia does not dream of rebellion against their oppressors as Winston does. However, she accepts her role in society and goes about life enjoying herself when she can.
From the beginning of the novel, it was inevitable that Big brother would eventually win, and Winston would be caught by the thought police. He could never have an immediate affect on the Party. His long and pointless struggle achieved no result in the end, and finally was brainwashed and lost any freedom of thought he once had.
It is a rare conception where a human being is completely and utterly alone. One problem we tend to overlook due to our primitive ideals of staying as a group, is the fact of us becoming solely to that group. In the book Anthem ,by Ayn Rand, a man named Equality 7-2521 sees this problem evolve and how it becomes a nuisance to his society. The book has made me open my mind up to the ideals of doing things for yourself and not always for those around you. The feeling of the story showing a world where many are brought down for being unique and talented hurts me as I imagine a time where all are mere specs of the world. The book hits the hard points of what can easily go wrong with our society if we decide to go over the line. I can see a life
Firstly, O’Brien, a member of the inner party, uses technology to accomplish complete control over the public through the means of telescreens, hidden microphones and torture machines, ‘Any sound that Winston made… could be picked up by [the telescreen]. [Winston] could be seen as well as heard’. This emphasises to the reader the extent of control that the party can exercise over the public, enabling them to eliminate any potential rebels. Furthermore, this loss of freedom and individuality exterminates any real friendship, family or love forcing the public to turn to Big Brother for companionship. This in turn minimises the chance of rebellion as everyone views Big Brother as a figure of comfort and security, ‘As he seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector…’ O’Brien also uses a torture machine on Winston, ‘[He] had never loved [O’Brien] so deeply as at this moment’. This machine enables O’Brien to manipulate Winston’s views, personal opinions and even feelings. O’Brien is able to make Winston view the world as he wants him to, even to the extent of making Winston love him, his tormentor, the person inflicting the pain. ...
Because of the torture he undergoes, Winston loses his humanity and his rebellious spirit. Instead, he begins to praise the Party just as he is supposed to. He becomes a supporter of the Party and Big Brother and forgets about his support of the brotherhood, if it even
Everywhere he looks he sees the Party’s leader’s face, known as Big Brother. This Party even controls the people’s history and language. A total dictatorship. Thinking rebellious things is illegal, and in fact is the worst crime you could possibly do. To escape Big Brother's tyranny, Winston starts a diary, which is an act punishable by death.
Winston had been born in 1945, a time when Big Brother ceased to exist. Because he did not grow up under Big Brother’s extreme, totalitarian control, Winston was able to spend his childhood experiencing freedom, which led to his development of a strong sense of humanity and worth within the world. As years passed by and Big Brother quickly gained control over Oceania, Winston dreadfully watched as the government dehumanized society and took away the personal freedoms as if the public was a bunch of wild animals. Although the rest of society had been easily tricked and corrupted by the government, Winston never once lost sight of his humanity, ultimately fueling his desire for rebellion and chance at maintaining his humanity. Winston’s first act of rebellion against the government was his decision to buy a diary, in which he wrote extreme anti-government sayings.
Winston felt like sex was a rebellion. He is drawn to his lover Julia because
Winston writes, five times in all capital letters, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER,” (Orwell, ###). Winston triumphed over the fear of committing one of the most heinous crimes that a citizen of Oceania can commit. By setting pen to paper, Orwell