Montag v. Beatty

The main protagonist, Montag, after realizing that his life was basically meaningless the commanding fireman, Beatty came to speak to him and try to convince him that his life meant something and for him not to defect from his life. Beatty tires to tell Montag that ignorance is just fine and conforming to their society's norms but Montag is resistant to his argument and takes the side of knowledge. This conflict is seen throughout the book because in many occasions the reader sees how people have the choice to be knowledgeable or ignorant.

Rotten Fun

The people of Montag's time are very dumb, not to say that its their fault. Many people we see today have the required tools to learn and expand their minds yet they choose not to, this is to truly asinine but the people in Montag's day are deprived of these tools. Instead of an education to satisfy the people's mind cravings, they are given amusement parks that are consisted of drag races and gun fights. The people here are the epitome of intelligence deprivation because the government run shows are very predictable but thats why its appealing to these people, the shows are usually violent and help people relieve their anger through television.

Fahrenheit 451

In this world of Fahrenheit 451 the people are oppressed not only by the threat of violence but by may forms of mind deteriorating entertainment to prevent any free thought or expression. Guy Montag, is a fireman by every sense of the word. He deals with fire, he uses it to burn all books and banned forms of literature. Instead of books, people use wall sized televisions and drive dangerously fast to keep them from thinking too much. They listen to the government run radio and are constantly barraged by oppressive propaganda, they push the idea that people are happy and they are content with their existence yet Guy Montag realizes that he and everyone else is living a lie. Everyone is living a lie and the workings of the government has left countless as shells of what used to be a human being, all of them devoid of intelligence, feelings and creativity. Guy, not wanting to end up as emotionally and mentally dead, has to find a way to survive his oppressive existence and through his story the reader is exposed as to how freedom can be smothered out of existence.

Freedom? lol

Freedom is the enemy. The worst nightmare to the Party is freedom, the very essence of it is to be squashed at any given opportunity. The Party knows all too well what freedom is; one must know their enemy to defeat it and they lie to keep it down. They tell the people of Oceania that they are free, they have the highest quality of life and the best the world has to offer but its all a lie. The Party lives off lies because if the people knew freedom then there would be no Party, the very taste of freedom would give the masses an insatiable craving for it. This is the worst case scenario for the Party, when the common man knows he's been cheated out of life and its riches; he and his brethren will bring down the evil empire. The Party would rather have anything than freedom, it would sustain poverty, plagues, famine, they would withstand the worst God could throw at them and they would still fear freedom as the worst case scenario.

To Speak A New

The Party has taken extreme measures to set themselves up to be the rulers of everything; even language. Like many other institutions and laws, the Party has made sure that English is to be eradicated and have it replace with Newspeak. This new language is being slowly introduced into Oceania's people and will be adopted as its official language in the year 2050 and its main use is to make sure that there is no room for rebellious thought in this new language. This new language gets rid of many words and has no negative words and if there needs a negative word then it would be “ungood” rather than bad. This language is made so there is no complex or profound thought, this language is very frank and no room for nuances. The Party already have the foundation of Newspeak and its introduced it to the people with constant encouragement to begin use it and plant the seeds of destruction for “old” english.

No More Heroes

The Party is very cunning when comes to executing their prisoners. They usually torture anyone who has anti-Party thoughts or intentions, but where most totalitarian states would just kill the outright, The Party breaks them down. The Party's philosophy on execution is that it wants to spare all martyrs, they want no heroes for the cause to die. That's why they torture all non-believers, they want to completely turn them over to Big Brother and the longer they resist, the longer the torture will take place. They will only allow people who love Big Brother to be killed, the Party usually holds fake courts and publicly shows them on every telescreen and show everyone that their cause for freedom and justice was wrong and that the offenders must admit they are wrong. The offenders usually admit their wrong doing and the Party lets them go, then they're executed just to show the people the fallen hero and tear away any chances of them dying a martyr.

Winston's Stockholm

When Winston is captured by the Party, he undergoes a long period of torture by the man that was supposedly going to help him bring the Part down. The Party viciously beats him on a daily basis, he is deprived of food and they use all different types of torture to break him down. But what seems peculiar is that throughout the torture Winston still sees O'Brien, the man who is usually implementing the torture, as a friend. Winston's connection to O'Brien may seem delusional but its a form of coping with the horrible reality of his situation, many people who have been kidnapped tend to grow a connection to their kidnappers and will even defend them. This behavior is a survival mechanism that allows the victim grow a bond between someone else and Winston is no different.