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Essay On 1984 And The Maze Runner

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The terrifying nature of freedom causes individuals to assimilate into society out of fear. Societies thus take advantage of this by oppressing individuals to maintain stability. In George Orwell’s 1984, which is based on a rundown city called Oceania, the proles always accept everything that the party tells them without any questions. They let the government completely control their lives without hesitation. The Maze Runner by James Dashner also exhibits oppressive environments and individuals who accept these societies. In the Maze Runner, the people in the maze are all trapped in a maze, limiting where they can go and what they can do. Both 1984 and The Maze Runner exhibit the oppressive nature of society and how accepting to be controlled …show more content…

This brings about the idea of having no control whatsoever, thus losing individual freedom. Whether it is by the telescreens, which record voices and images even in people’s homes, or the thought police, everyone in Oceania is being constantly watched. Even the higher branch of government, the Inner Party, has very little privileges when it comes to control. As Winston stated, “it was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within a range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away” (Orwell 62). Likewise, in The Maze Runner, The Creators let loose hundreds of things called beetle blades, which are small robotic beetles that, similar to the telescreens in 1984, keep everyone under heavy surveillance using cameras and microphones. The beetle blades gather information and brings it back to The Creators, who like the party, control everything and use that information to change life in the maze (Dashner 65). As Thomas had said, “the beetles were how the creators watched them” (Dashner 125). Both societies cannot do anything without the superior people knowing, limiting their room for individuality, and both provide dire consequences based upon their

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