1984 Argument Essay

Startled, you get woken up by the police officers barging into your room, you notice the door has been kicked down and you are being yanked by the limbs. Unaware of why this is happening you start to scream and kick at the officers. Next thing you know you get hit in the side of the head and you black out. What feels like days later, you awaken in a dark and empty room. At least that's what you believe. Out of thin air you hear a chuckle come from the corner of the room. Yelling hello you hope for a voice that can answer all the questions you've collected in your head. This mysterious chuckle begins stepping forward, starting to become a dark shadow now in the middle of the room. You begin asking him what's happening and why you are here.
On multiple occasions, Orwell repeats, “War is Peace” (Orwell 104). This slogan is believed to be the most important paradox due to the effect it casts over the reader. The slogan represents how the people of Oceania are having a war against the government, but finds a need to discover peace because they aren’t allowed to react to it. Without this paradox, the citizens would be able to revolt and have the freedom to express their emotions. With this new freedom, there would still be mysterious deaths occurring and laws still wouldn’t exist. Yet if it was the paradox, of unknown laws not existing there would be less deaths and less punishments. The people would understand the wrong actions and the reasoning for punishment.
Nevertheless, the paradox, laws not being set yet if one is broken Oceania’s citizens will be punished is the most important paradox in 1984. The citizens of Oceania wouldn’t have to worry about doing something ‘wrong’ and become punished for it if this paradox wasn’t present and the state would be a perfect union without as many problems. Ultimately 1984 wouldn’t even have a purpose without these unknown