August 15, 2012

1984 by George Orwell

Isolation: Conditions and Behavior
and Rights
Rights
Rights are moral principles defining a mans freedom of action in a social context. Rights
are essential to civilization, they are the pillars of society. There are two types of rights, natural and
legal rights. Natural rights or moral rights are rights that you are born with, they are not ''man-made''.
They are universal; that is, they apply to all people. An example of a natural right is the right to live.
The other type of right, the legal rights are the opposite to natural rights, they are ''man-made'' and
created by the government. An example of a legal right is the right to vote. They are also known has
civil rights.
Since the start of the novel we see that people are physically controlled, their rights are
all taken away from them, people cannot even express how they feel. They can't even move without
being monitored. Natural and legal rights in the novel are limited and controlled by The Party, in other
words we can say that rights are nonexistent in the novel.
Isolation: Conditions and Behavior
Isolation is an act of physically or mentally separating one or many individuals from a
certain group. It can be isolation from society, a group of friends, one's family, and so on. The
conditions and behaviors may vary depending on what type of situation. The isolated individual will
always think differently of the people that are isolating him and/or caused his isolation. Some time
developing a sense of paranoia.
In Gorge Orwell's "1984" isolation plays a very important role in the main character's
ability to think differently from what the Party is telling him. Because Winston lives alone and doesn't
have anyone close to him, he was able to develop his doubts against the Party's true identity and
intentions. Other people that had doubts were killed because of the people that were near them the
most. The only way possible of opposing the Party without it noticing was by isolating yourself from it,
and it's people.

Another isolation is the isolation of the society of London from the rest of the world.
The only presence of outside was from war criminals and the stories that the Party sold you from the

outside, which you had no other one to buy. Because of this the Party had control over the minds of
society of London. The Party's view became the only eyes of London to the outside world.
MLA

"Rights (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Web. 14

Aug. 2012. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/.

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