War: Human Inequality In The United States

“War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength” (Orwell 7). These expressions are unusual in a sense, but for Winston in George Orwell’s 1984 they were reality, statements that were constantly being preached to the people and posted everywhere. 1984 follows Winston as he slowly undergoes his own personal growth of edging away from the Party and Big Brother as he finds certain evidence of the past and of a corrupt government. As Winston continues to grow as a person he begins to become more human as he slowly regains his human instincts and begins to have a better understanding of the world or of how the world should be. This doesn't last long though, as Winston is soon taken in to confess for his crimes, and is slowly rewritten to believe what the party says and to love Big Brother. 1984 is related to American culture today because we can find that in our society there are many examples of doublethink, such as war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength.

In George Orwell’s novel, “1984”,is about a main character Winston, who is an ordinary citizen of Oceania. The totalitarian society is led by Big Brother. Television screens are strategically placed everywhere watching citizens’ every move. Leaving them in constant fear and paranoia. The corrupt society lead to some citizens wanting to rebel. If they were ever caught, they would be severely punished. This kept wearing citizens down. The dehumanization of citizens of Oceania was due to propaganda, mind control, and the lack of privacy.

George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, examines a society in which the overwhelming domination of Oceania’s leading party of the totalitarian government, Ingsoc, causes its citizens to become automatons—except for one citizen: the protagonist, Winston Smith. Like the masses, Winston is subjected to the regime’s use of constant surveillance, alteration of historical records and memories, psychological and ideological manipulation, and torture. Although Winston is subjected to the regime’s various manipulations, which have the final goal of eliminating all individualism, Winston stands out from the masses. Throughout the novel, Winston actively rebels against the regime primarily by having independent thought and by forming a meaningful relationship with another citizen, a relationship that is restricted by the regime. As Orwell depicts Winston’s strong desire for individuality, he compels readers to pay attention to the totalitarian regime’s deliberate restraint of distinctiveness. By using Winston’s role to demonstrate the importance of individual thought and meaningful relationships in the identity of a human being, Orwell suggests that a totalitarian regime demands the loss of individuality in order to have and preserve total control.

Within the context of the United States, wars, atrocities, and widespread violence has plagued our nation’s history. Although we go through periods of revolution and pride, a more critical and overarching perspective of American history reveals a common theme of war. Since the American Revolution of 1776, major wars like the Civil War and the Vietnam War have broadly changed the American landscape. In particular, the Vietnam War solidified widespread distrust in the American government because of the drastic disparities between political rhetoric and reality. The pervasive propaganda in the rhetoric of American politicians created an inaccurate portrayal of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, influencing the imaginations of the American public. In

Similarly, Orwell’s work and North Korea people in the fictional Oceania and the people of North Korea both are subject to government oppression and denied free will. ‘"Tune in to North Korea. " Ditto for forced labour camps, human right abuses, avoidable starvation, and all sorts of mind-numbing terror campaigns to engender "enthusiasm" in the masses—a cowed and brutalized population ignored by a world that can't do much about their lot except call their regime "evil." (Fraser). Displaying behavior that demonstrates obedience to the “dictator” is the only way people can avoid execution.

War is a reality many people must face every day. War can bring out the best in people, and unfortunately the worst. This pit of war can render people inescapable and powerless. This pit of war affects the decisions people make, and this horrid pit torture and blind the mind to see life in the true colors of black and white.

Unfortunately, our modern society has been marred with war and strife over its eventful lifespan. A civil disagreement, when accompanied by mass offenses, often ends with deadly war. Throughout history, many nations have been unable to solve their personal grievances with one another in a diplomatic manner. In many instances are solves through protest, boycotts and other contentious means. However, in some instances, society elects the worst possible alternative, which is often war. In retrospect, wars have been fought for many worthwhile causes, even by today's standards. Wars have been fought over liberty, injustice, the potential threat to national security and more. However, no war is more damaging than those that are civil. Brother against brother, father against father, neighbor against neighbor. These are often the most bitter of wars simply because they are so personal and contentious. As is the case with the American Civil War of 1861-1865, the varying degrees of hatred and disagreement resulting in massive deaths. Due primarily to the civil nature of the war, many lives were lost in an unnecessary and often brutal manner.

In the dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell warns the future generations of the threat of totalitarian rule by dramatizing the problem through elements of metaphors and imagery. In the passage on pages 205 and 206, Winston reads a book Oligarchical Collectivism, which perfectly depicts the harms of a totalitarian rule. Orwell paints a clear picture in which “every citizen...could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of police and in the sound of official propaganda, with other channels of communication closed” (Orwell 206). After reading words such as “twenty-four hours” and “eyes of police”, a reader imagines a situation that resembles jail, where he or she experiences the threat of a totalitarian government in his or her head.

War is not a necessary evil humans must endure. Although, war is not necessary, humans go to war to try to gain power, fortune, and to spread their particular group’s religions and beliefs. By definition civilization is an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. The chaos of war is reflected in the semantic history of the word war. War can be traced back to the Indo-European root *wers-, “to confuse, mix up.” In the Germanic family of the Indo-European languages, this root gave rise to several words having to do with

When thinking about everything our country has been through it all starts with a disagreement. It started with us fighting Native Americans, and then us moving on to fight England. Funny how some things never change. Over the years we have been in many wars, and battles. Some more memorable than others, but none the less just as scarring. Some led to great things and others didn’t, but in the end, there was always loss whether or not you won the war or lost it. So, how does war impact our country? In many ways war impacts different aspects of the economy, from social aspects to psychological impacts.

A variety of people feel that war only allows for growth, peace, and benefits. One of the ways found to represent a country and fight for beliefs is through war. In the article “War, What Is It Good For? These Four Things, Actually” written by Ian Morris, the author is clearly toward war and feels “while war is the worst imaginable way to create larger, more peaceful societies, it is pretty much the only way humans have found” (Morris 4). People are raised in a society where they have been taught war is the key solution to solving issues and creating peace.

War is defined as a conflict going on between different people or countries. Through-out our history, America has been involved in many different wars. Two of the biggest wars that they fought were World War I and World War II. They left millions of people dead or injured. World War I and World War II caused a lot of devastation and money for many countries in the world.

Throughout the history of the United States, nothing has served as a catalyst of societal restructuring and reform as war. Following the internal conflict of the civil war, the country experienced a state of peace with a focus on reconstruction and betterment of the overall public. These years of peace came to a close with the eruption of the extremely controversial Spanish American war, the first bloodshed America administered on foreign soil. Following the quelling of the controversial feelings the American public had towards external intervention, global conflicts have served as a necessary element of societal growth. From the beginning of the Spanish American war, through the end of disheartening engagement in Vietnam, war has

War has long been a part of the human experience. In earlier dates of history, it was used as a means to gain power and land. Romans expanded their empire by constantly going to war with surrounding areas. Many countries we have today are a result of one war or another. There have been protests and rallies across the globe giving their take on war. Even philosophers such as Sun Tzu give their take in books such as The Art of War. Although wars can be juvenile at times, and result in a horrid number of deaths: they are necessary. In today’s day in age, wars are not fought to gain more power, nor more land, but instead to protect those who need help protecting themselves and to combat those who would attempt to wreak havoc among civilians.

War is a topic that politically gets thrown into our life and even formed the United States of America. Remember that American colonists fought the British for independence resulting in the revolutionary war. War had to seriously be planned and considered then because without any money or weaponry, soldiers were left hopeless compared to the British army when Britain didn’t want to reason with the America at the time in terms of independence from the king at the time. Depending on who is asked they may say war is justified or war is not justified. The view I am looking at is war is not justified. There are other solutions to solving conflict and war should be seriously thought over. Much of our reasoning behind war strings back to a simple fight between two humans physically, but going to war is a physical fight on a much greater level.