iety where everyone believes the same principles. Rather than killing those who do not follow, the Party manipulates them: “He realized that the party was not going to kill him, because if they did, freedom would have triumphed, because Winston Smith would have died a free man with his beliefs intact” (Teck). Through these ideas, Orwell creates a “negative utopia” to satire Stalin’s ideal society and what he thinks it will cause: the complete loss of freedom, individual thought, and privacy. He uses Winston as the “last person alive capable of free thought against The Party” (Williams), and shows the dangers of Stalin’s movement by contrasting Winston with his society. The disadvantages of Orwell’s society can be seen by its motto: “WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (1984 7). Clearly, Orwell depicts that it is dangerous to eliminate the individual from the community.In much of his life, George Orwell documented his experiences as well as his thoughts in non-fiction essays, many of which show the community pressing down on the individual too violently. In one such essay, “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell gives an account of one of his experiences as a policeman in Burma. A tame elephant escapes from its master and creates havoc in the city. After its rampage is over, Orwell spotted the elephant: “I had halted on the road. As soon as I saw the elephant I knew with perfect certainty that I ought not to shoot him…. At that distance, peacefully eating, the elephant looked no more dangerous than a cow” (“Shooting an Elephant” 7). He then looks back to see a crowd of people waiting in excitement for the elephant to be shot. With the pressure of this crowd, Orwell feels a need to shoot the elephant: “They were watching me as they would watch a conjurer about to perform a trick. They did not like me,...
