Human Rights Violations By John Wyndham

As with the fear of the unknown, the fear of differences has influenced the decisions made by many leaders, especially extremists. It has led to prejudice, bias, bigotry, and discrimination. In the book specifically, discriminations are faced by Blasphemies such as Sophie and Joseph’s older brother Gordon (colloquially known as the Spider Man) and Offences which is deviance in animal. according to Jacob and old farmer “They should be burnt like they used to. But what happened? The sentimentalists in Rigo who never have to deal with them themselves said: Even though they aren’t human, they look nearly human, therefore extermination looks like murder, or execution and that troubles people’s minds” (88), his views are shared throughout Waknuk and it is hard not to believe it if you are normal because Waknuk is isolated and there is hardly any outside influence. This leads to the recurring theme of True Image and purification in the form of slaughtering deviant animals, burning entire crops of deviant plants, and banishing Blasphemies to the Fringes. When David first learns of Sophie’s extra toes he starts iterating in his head the quote “And God created man in his own image. And God decreed that man should have one body, one head, two arms, and two legs: that each arm should be jointed in two places and end in one hand: that each hand should have four fingers and one thumb: that each finger should bear a flat fingernail…” (10-11) he tells us that he knows the quote word for word proving that the community goes by the Bible word for word is obsessed with everything being perfect. The new information of telepaths cause further discrimination, as mentioned above, for it shows that mutations are no longer just physical. Just as it is in the real world, discrimination that is faced by the people with lesser power causes isolation, anger and

Being different is okay. But do our societies accept these differences? Not only does the rejection of differences happen today, but has for the past many years. As we all know, in Waknuk, people are devoted to the True Image of Man, which isolates David from not just his community but also his family. The Waknukians consider mutants a threat, as they represent the devil in humans. As the Inspector had stated, “The Devil sends Deviations among us to weaken us and tempt us away from Purity. Sometimes he is clever enough to make a near-perfect imitation, so we have to always be on the look-out for the mistake he has made” (55). Furthermore, David has to hide his true self and he must live in fear, first for himself and Sophie, and then for Petra and the rest of the group. Besides his mutation being a challenge of his it also becomes dangerous

Our fear-driven society is mirrored in both Fahrenheit 451 and Things Fall Apart. In Things Fall Apart, their society is so drastically driven by fear that there is a justice system in place, not for the means of actual justice, but because the citizens of Umofia are afraid of the Earth god, and the demise of their town. This is apparent in their use of the “evil forest” which is where twin babies are left to die, in fear of the babies bringing evil with them. The fear of the citizens of Umofia is also seen in the punishment Okwonko is forced to carry out as a result of his gun accidentally going off and killing a boy. For this crime, Okwonko is forced to flee Umofia for seven years and his obi is burned to the ground. It is important to note, that the punishment given to Okwonko was out of the fear that the whole town would have to pay for Okwonko’s actions. This is shown in the quote, “As the elders said, if one finger brought oil it soiled the others.” P.106. This quote shows the mentality that the people of Umofia had. They lived in fear of offending the Great goddess. So much so, that they would go to exorbitant lengths to please her. They made sure to exile anyone who offended the Great goddess, because they feared the weakening of their town. Fahrenheit 451

Kwaymullina uses the concept of dystopia in her novel to express how people in contemporary Australia are afraid of being different. This can be seen through the existence of detention centers in the novel. Ashala and her tribe are treated unequally in society, through their ostracism to Firstwood we can see that the society is afraid of difference amongst the civilization. The society, in particular people such as Neville Rose, are afraid of what they do not know. The Tribe have been branded as ‘Illegals,’ this shows that they are made out to be villains in society and are isolated from the world, although they are doing no harm, they are vilified and are suppressed by society. Kwaymullina uses a nuanced approach to convey to the readers of Ashala Wolf

Being threatened and killed due to one 's belief is unjust and heartless. It shows somethings in a person. It shows that they are below human beings. It shows that they have no care for others besides those closest to them. It is evil, cruel and all in all just not right at all no matter what scenario people find themselves in. This is something called social injustice, or unfair treatment. An example of this is a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored or violated in many ways. One big example of social injustice is the holocaust lead by nazi Germany 's. The nazis were a group against Jewish people and killed them in massive death camps like Auschwitz . People of many ages were brought there. From retired grandpas and grandma to children not even in preschool. The treatment was the same for all. The perspective on the other hand was different. The little kids may not have realized how bad it was compared to the older folk who saw and understood what went on in these type of camps and situations. This type of traumatic experience can change a person and is a terrible thing that history definitely doesn 't want to repeat. In the nonfiction New York bestseller Night by Elie Wiesel, the realistic-fiction novel The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne, and the true and inspiring story Run, Boy, Run by Uri Orlev, it is evident that being brought up during times of social injustice can cause

Ever heard of the saying “don’t judge a book by the cover”? Well there is a lot of human cruelty in the name of righteousness and power going on between the Salem witch trials and the modern day racial profiling in America.

In this society, everyone was deemed equal to each other so no one could find out new things or talk about the past. No one was allowed to think as an individual. They had to use the word "we" instead of "I". Everyone always had to be in a group and male and female worked apart from each other. In the novel, the government chose who went with whom and whom they had to mate with. They couldn't choose because than they would be punished and be sent to a corrective center (jail/prison). No one rebelled because of this. In our society, we are allowed to choose who we want to be with and with who we want to start a family with. In the novel, the government is bad because no one is allowed to speak out. They didn't have a democratic environment. In our world, we have a democratic government and the right to freedom of speech, without getting punished. On the contrary, we have to speak out to make our community better and safer to live.

Human rights were an achievement that we humans have been working for years. Therefore it came to effect for at least some of us around the world in the form of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is a declaration of 30 human rights that the United Nation adopted in December 10 of 1948. However, we face challenges along the way that oppose this belief of human rights. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at it, a novel called Night which is about a man’s experience of the Holocaust (written by Elie Wiesel who actually experienced the event) provide events that violated the human rights of two, three, and five.

Last similarity between the book’s society and our society back then is the killing. Long-time back in our society, blacks were discriminated and some were even killed just because of their skin colour. The KKK was the biggest discriminator and killer of minorities, they were bad people. In the book, people of Waknuk were similar to the KKK because they basically killed mutants who were minorities just because they were different. The KKK had their own reasons for killing the minorities and so did the people of Waknuk. The Waknuk’s reason is that “The devil is the father of deviations (also known as mutants)” (p.18) and so that was a good enough reason to kill the mutants.

Discrimination in the novel is mostly obvious from Joseph Strorm, who is ironically the father of a deviant, David Strorm. He is the strictest devout of his religion in Waknuk and being the heir of Waknuk, he bears the responsibility to keep the society deviation-free. He does so by discriminating against deviants, like the society, and punishing them for being born ‘wrong’. His devotion to God and the ‘Definition of Man’ can be seen when he hit his son, David for wishing he had a third hand by mistake. He is sensitive to any form of deviation and punishes them harshly but he does admit that God is merciful, as seen from ‘God, in His mercy, may yet grant you (forgiveness)’. This is ironic as Joseph, being a devout, should be following God’s footsteps and be merciful in his actions too but he is willing to kill and punish people instead, contradicting his religion. His intolerance of deviations led him to discriminate against them, as can be seen from how he refused to help Aunt Harriet and humiliated her instead when she came begging for help to save her innocent deviant child. Joseph had also discriminated against the great horses unsuccessfully as the government had approved of them and there

The society of Waknuk cannot come to terms of peace with the Fringes people, allowing them to live amongst the society; hence it forces the “blasphemies” to raid the society of Waknuk causing damage which worries the norms. Waknuk is constantly running into problems, due to the fact they will not accept deviations and blasphemies as norms. Some deviations are beneficial, but the authorities do not realize, their work goes down the drain because of deviational resources and they are frequently fighting off raiders from the Fringes which are harmful to the norms.

based on the superior figure’s decisions, and evidently displays racism;showing a similarity to how our world makes some decisions. During the hunt for David and the others, Michael warns them that they...“\are non-human and therefore not entitled to any of the rights or protections of human society. Anyone who assists you in any way is committing a criminal act; and concealing knowledge of your whereabouts is also liable to punishment.” (131) This illustrates how David, Rosalind, and Petra are named deviant and are stripped from any rights of a human being due to their differences. As in our world, people were treated as nothing, and brutally punished for something they could not control. Unfortunately, this is happening with many cultures of the past and present in our world today. While Uncle Axel is warning David about keeping Petra safe, he states, “This isn't a nice cosy world for anyone- especially not for anyone that’s different.” (96) This demonstrates how society only treats the majority of humans correctly. The abuse of people who are not normal to the standard of everybody else is painful and horrific. Racism is a major topic distributed in both societies hugely; nevertheless, in decision making there is a lot of ignorance.

From the time we are children and throughout the duration of our lives, we are told to abide by certain sets of rules. In most situations this is a perfectly acceptable expectation; speed limits, remaining quiet in libraries, and waiting until the age of twenty-one to drink are all reasonable things to ask of people. After all, these rules and laws are put in place to ensure a peaceful and safe society. However, when these rules begin to infringe upon the rights of certain groups, some citizens turn to civil disobedience as a form of protest. While some may argue that civil disobedience is nothing more than a violation of the law, it has also proven to have a positive impact on society, in more ways than one. Used by Mahatma Gandhi and Martin

Similarly, Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a government in total control doing all that it can to keep power over the people. From childhood, citizens in this society are conditioned to be perfect tools of the government. On page 22 of Brave New World, the Controller explains how babies are conditioned to hate and fear books and flowers, so as to destroy curiousity and promote work (Huxley 22). If people are formed in such a way where work and lesiure is all they know and love, deviance cannot occur. Also, ever before birth, citizens are forced into predetermined castes through chemical alterations. Early on in the novel, Henery tells Lenina, “And if you were an Epsilon, your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha” (Huxley 74). Regardless of their caste, members of this world are okay with their situation because they are taught to love their position, no matter how degrading it can be. Much like The Party, Brave New World’s government takes special care to remove those who defy set rules and expectations. When explaining the islands to Hemholtz, the Controller says they are for “All of the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community life” (Huxley 227). In order to preserve perfect obedient, society, the government eliminates the deviant by shipping them far away. The

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”