Personal Narrative: War Is Peace

I think in a way freedom can turn into a form of slavery. In our country we pride ourselves with being the land of the free, but we have so many regulations now. Our freedom is restricted so that everyone is equal and nobody gets hurt. These restrictions and regulations are to maintain the freedom of our country. I think we have gotten to the point where we are so protected, that we are enslaved with the very things that are suppose to grant us freedom. Also I think that sometimes we can want to be free so bad, that we can be enslaved with our own thoughts and

When “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”(16) is flashed on the screen it is kind of an irony. The Party is technically telling the people they have strength due to the fact that the citizens of Oceania are ignorant to the lies told by the party. The more ignorant the more power the Party has. The quote “WAR IS STRENGTH”(16) is describing the people wanting The Party to win the war they are in turning them against their “enemy” to gain more respect and power above the people. This was a tactic to get the people to fight for The Party who has been manipulating them into believing the lies they tell them every day. The last quote the Party uses is “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.” This quote is basically stating that a man who is on his own is doomed to fail.

According to google, the definition of freedom is the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint. The Freedom from imprisonment or enslavement from those who holds a person against their power or will. However, when freedom is expressed by an ex-slaved, their views are completely different. Ex-slaves found it difficult to adjust to the liberal freedom because they have to deal with relocating families, no political rights to vote, and the ability to establish land.

Everyone has ignorance and it will always be present. It is a matter of how knowledge intervenes that judges the outcome. James Madison describes a similar aspect. He mentions knowledge as the power that relieves ignorance and allows people to be their own governors. In Fahrenheit 451, the character of Montag is a great example. He is once an ideal, ignorant citizen, but it all changes once he meets Clarisse, who unlocks a vault full of knowledge to him. Moreover, the crave for knowledge grows and Montag meets Faber who helps reveal the meaning of knowledge, allowing Montag to

The three slogans of the party are “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”, (Orwell, 7). At first glance, these slogans would appear absurd but after further investigation they ironically couldn’t be more true. War is Peace means that while the country is at war the people’s attention is diverted from seeing the corruption of the government. Nobody rebels against the government because they have a bigger issue to handle, the war. Ignorance is strength meaning that the people’s ignorance causes them to not question the Party which is the party’s idea of making the country strong. Freedom is slavery means that if people are given the freedom to do what they wish and show ideas that are not for the party, everybody becomes weak. They are imprisoned by the thoughts they conjure which means they cannot stand up against even one idea from the party.

She lays helplessly, hopelessly tranced. What will remain of her in the coming hours is unknown, but one thing is for certain, I will remain by her side until she is an empty house, cold and unseeing. Though sorrow may fill my bones, all that I let show through is a sense of tranquil energy in lieu of the recent events. She mumbles and murmurs longing for the life long past. Embarrassment occupies her brain as she contemplates why and how her life has come to this. She reeks of stupidity and frailness when her life was nothing close to that. She fears that what we leave behind is more important that what we were. Is it though? Regardless of what she was or what she has become, I am here and I will always be here.

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I you were to ask a slave what freedom meant to them it would differ from what it means to a Patriot or a Loyalist. A Patriot or a Loyalist would say freedom is not paying taxes or having a different government then the British, but that’s not exactly veritable. While this is mostly what a Patriot thinks, Loyalist have no problem being ruled by the British, but just don’t wwant to pay taxes, or have their own Parliamentary. Slaves on the other hand see freedom as more of not being treated as property or being able to do things for themselves. So while the Patriots and Loyalist think of it as a community, while slaves see it as a person stand

“Slavery is Freedom” according to Fitzpatrick, we are “subservient” to the government through handouts and bailouts. On on hand it is true, because handouts and bailouts are “our duty to the government” which could be defined as slavery, but at the same time, government issued handouts and bailouts are widely protested by many people. “Strength is ignorance” Strength to those who don’t know, to those who mind their own business; they get to live out their lives happy and don’t get tortured/ assassinated by the

When we think back to the freedom of slaves today, many people only define it as freedom from shackles, hard labor, and suffering that were definitive of slavery. Although slavery itself was gone some say it’s hard to say that the newly liberated slaves were really free. They faced enormous difficulty with issues such as poverty, education, and political power.

explains, "Just as "war" is not necessarily bad, so "peace" is not necessarily good. The

“The most effective form of slavery is a system that allows just enough autonomy to give the illusion of freedom, while keeping the public in a perpetual state of indentured servitude.”-Unknown. In simpler terms, what this quote is saying that the most potent form of slavery is when a system just lets enough “self-rule” to give the false idea of being free to individuals while keeping them in an ongoing state of being an indentured servant for the government. The definition of freedom is “the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint” and “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved.” If those definitions are true then why are individuals enslaved in a society where the basic ideas of this “so-called

In Comparison of the three slogans the number one thing they all have in common is they are all false and are all contradictions of each other; “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is strength.” Each slogan has it 's own purpose and reason to help the inner circle to control everybody to make sure they do not rise up against the inner party. If someone does go against the inner party the inner party sends their “task force” in to take that person and to have them do manually labor for the rest of their life. Which having the Thought Police a.k.a “task force” in the mix of everything adds even more anxiety and fear into the people of this society. In truth the inner circle uses fear and repeats the slogans to get people brainwashed into believing everything the inner circle is telling them.

“What do you think about sending in peacekeeper team two, they have proven themselves capable in every simulation we have provided sir.” I looked over the profiles on my holoscreen and responded “ We could do that but I think we need a more subtle plan as team two is very…loud and rash in operations such as this. If you could come up with several more options within the next rotation, I would appreciate deeply” “Of course, is there anything else Mr. Adams” “No that will be all.” My assistant bowed in response then swiftly walked out. Now that I was alone as I could be I needed to plan what need to happen if I planned to move up from just district head. If I brought in Alice my chances of success

Or are we slaves? If we assess our lives, the control over our movements, our schooling, our earnings, we might become aware that what we call freedom is actually, liberties. We have liberties. To me this means we are allowed to do things, within limits - we have limitations placed upon us by documentation, credentials, licenses, etc. We are, in all respects, not free.