Samuel Becker
English – Period 2
Nov. 4, 2013
Time to Unite
Hello
friends, my name is Winston Smith. I am a thirty-nine year old man with medical
problems and a harmful drinking habit, and today I have an urgent message for
you. Big Brother does not represent you and does not care about you. I, being a
loyal party member for many years, know that they don’t. I work in the Ministry
of Truth, and on a daily basis I distort, censor, and erase that truth. Big
Brother doesn’t want you Proles to know that you are being used as mere serfs
in a plan to gain complete power over all of Oceania. They view you as
inferior, and only let you have the freedom that you have because they see you
as benign and unable to rise up. They control all the economic resources and
create all the laws, and they leave no way for another party to democratically
win over the power.
The
common man controls the numbers; they simply do not yet possess the awareness
that they are being treated as a commodity nor realize that they don’t have to
be used in such a manner. If you unite as one conscious body of protesters you could
overthrow the dictatorship that overshadows your every move. You could live
free from the bondage of oppression and illusion.
We
work day in and day out, but to what end? We get nowhere, we gain nothing, and
we learn nothing. We make no difference; we have no say in the bigger picture. We aren't allow to marry for love only for procreation to add members to The Party. We aren't allow to think thoughts that go outside the tight constrictions place by Big Brother, to strengthen our faith in IngSoc. Why can’t we give ourselves a voice in society? If we gather as force, I
believe we can.
Why
should the 1% possess 99% of the wealth and power? Even though they act like
they distribute fairly, they only distribute evenly among you all. They keep
most of the money and the control for themselves. They make laws that allow
them to get away with their malevolence and prevent people from speaking out
against it. Why should we tolerate this?
They
treat us as sub-human, unworthy of attention or care. They constrict our
growth, our independence and our individuality. This is simply intolerable. We
must wake up and see that our minds are chained, and they have programmed us
for complacency. We do not have to accept these conditions, and we owe it to
our descendants to create a better society before it is too late, and we have
passed the point of no return, where our thoughts are not even our own.
I
fervently plead with you, Proles, to take a stand against Big Brother. If we
march against them, they can’t stop us. Only we can stop us, and by not taking
action we are stopping ourselves. If they provoke, we provoke, if they fight,
we fight, if they call for peace, we call for peace. But no more of the fantasy
and illusion of peace. The Proles deserve much better, and it is in your grasp.
