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

The fable 1984 touches on many disturbing aspects about the denial of a psyches inhering rights. In todays society people are granted certain rights which the governance or anyone else can not take away(predicate). These rights are the right to breeding, liberty, and the hunting of happiness. In the novel 1984 the government which the people of Oceania have sex under has interpreted away all of the rights of people, including natural rights. The right to life has been interpreted away in the sense that a persons life is the company. A person is natural for the party, works for the party, and dies for the party. self-direction is taken away by not allowing the retirement of thought or action. To coin the phrase "Big Brother is watch 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 hate and unhappiness.     The life of a person li ving in Oceania is strictly controlled. A person does not choose what they do for a living, or who they associate with. The party is the center of everybodys life. The only reason anyone marries or has tykeren 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 will come apart on anybody, even their parents if they see them acting in a irregular or peculiar way. When Winston was in the Ministry of Love he discovers that a fellow 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 proud of his child and happy that he had been sent to the Ministry of love before he had act any other thoughtcrime. He is a prime example of a person whose entire life was for the party and for Big Brother. Even though Winston and Julia were enemies of the party their lives were still spent doing work for the party. The y would still participate 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, liberty from external restraint, and the power of choice. All of these definitions defy the very basis of the party.