Freedom

In my opinion, everyone is born free and not everyone is born into safety, some people are born into suffering, starvation, poverty, etc.  This is the result of an imperfect world, and this is what the government of 1984 is striving to destroy, the imperfections, but the only problem with this is that it can’t be done. In 1984, the government is modeling totalitarianism and there are faults in the government that people like O’Brian and Mr. Charrington can’t see or refuse to believe. In the process of creating perfection they have destroyed the qualities of human society and more importantly taken away their freedom. This is not perfect. In comparison to 1984, The Giver, by author Lois Lowry, took away freedoms and gave people a certain job in life that would stay with them forever unless they chose to be released, which meant death. They went so far as to take away color from this perfect world and change reality. If I were to predict what the people of the government from both societies were like, I would say that they were scared and were consumed with the fears of the world like suffering, death, famine, and other bad things. According to Rosseau, a philosopher and author of the Social Contract, he expressed how mankind is born free, but everywhere he is in chains, meaning man can become corrupt due to human society and influences.