Nineteen eighty four is a tale of future society, a society in which independent thinking is a crime punishable by death. This is also a society who's leaders are self serving and don't set their goals for the common good by which all of the society will benefit. The party doesn't need to justify its selfish ways because it holds all of the power. The symbol of the party was Big Brother. The idealism of …
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…a teenagers choice of music, clothing etc to belong to the group. A more extreme example are religious cult members such as David Koresh's Branch Dividians who even voluntarily excepted the order to kill themselves. People become willing to accept the unacceptable until there conscience will no longer allow it. This is what happened to Winston Smith. He was a product of his humanity and it should not be a crime to be a human.