Authority' Manipulation Erasing Individuality
...Numerous authors have been interested in whether personal individuality and its development are influenced or even damaged by social order, norms and government. George Orwell and Harold Pinter are among these active defenders of human liberty, who express their protest against the oppressing power of governmental structures through their literally pieces. Both authors are interested in the degradation of human personality due to the destructive force of government and society. Orwell's novel "Nineteen-Eighty Four" and Pinter's play "The Birthday Party" illustrate how society or any directed organization run on its own pace different from that of man (Gillen 86).Consequentially, there comes a moment, when denial or sacrifice of some or even all personal characteristics is necessary in order to continue living (Gillen 86). Both works emphasize on the matter in which individuality is overshadowed by social institutions and denied complexity as the price of existing within the given society (Gillen 86). The authors imply this idea by general themes and motifs. They use the image of the rebellious individual and his idealized past, the image of the grinding authority and the means it uses to control the reality like language, physical power and mental manipulation. In the end of the two literary pieces, further supporting their point, Orwell and Pinter emphasize on the downfall of the protagonist.
Orwell and Pinter use the image of the rebellious personage, who refuses to fit in his society by following the socially accepted norms, in order to illustrate that there is no place for personal individuality. In both works the protagonists are analogues characters with fairly similar problems and ideas. They themselves have their own understanding about the world and living in an overcontroled reality that does not accept difference, makes them feel like outcasts who are...
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