The Individual and the Power

Is Big Brother still watching us?Orwell's well-known sentence is one of the briefest-and most sinister-literary expressions of the relationship between the individual and the power. Just like a Zen koan, it makes us think longer: the power is not only continuously watching us but it is permanently influencing our way of thinking, our prejudices, actually our whole worldview. This struggle can be found in a dictatorship and a democracy as well. An individual has only one device to fight with it: to develop real inward autonomy. The two fundamental pillars of the personal autonomy are freedom and love.The study represents this enormous fight through two famous literary works: Orwell's 1984 and Arthur Miller's drama The Crucible. At the end of the study there is a brief subjective analysis about the present position of this "war". Its consequence is quite pessimistic: the human being is about to lose the fight; the development of the real individual autonomy has never been harder than nowadays.

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Is Big Brother still watching us? Orwell's well-known phrase is one of the briefest expressions of the relationship between the individual and the power. People are permanently influenced by the power in all systems. The only device to fight with it is to develop real autonomy and love. The study represents this "war" by two famous literary works.

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Is Big Brother still watching us? Orwell's well-known sentence is one of the briefest-and most sinister-literary expressions of the relationship between the individual and the power. Just like a Zen koan, it makes us think longer: the power is not only continuously watching us but it is permanently influencing our way of thinking, our prejudices, actually our whole worldview. This struggle can be found in a dictatorship and a democracy as well. An individual has only one device to fight with it: to develop real inward autonomy. The two fundamental pillars of the personal autonomy are freedom and love. The study represents this enormous fight through two famous literary works: Orwell's 1984 and Arthur Miller's drama The Crucible. At the end of the study there is a brief subjective analysis about the present position of this "war". Its consequence is quite pessimistic: the human being is about to lose the fight; the development of the real individual autonomy has never been harder than nowadays.