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 the elimination 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 but it
is left up to the readers discretion to decide whether he is the criminal or just a victim
of a totalitarian society. The first instance of Winstons 'criminal' nature was when he
bought an illegal journal, quill and bottle of ink to record his thoughts. Although he
had so called 'criminal' thoughts before, the journal seemed to bring out the more
daring ideas in him as to how to get free from the Party's reign. This...