Significance Of The Fifth Amendment Of 1984 By George Orwell

The world of George Orwell’s Oceania is an authoritarian society where the cultural hierarchy includes the inner party, the outer party, and the proles. By definition, an authoritarian society has no governing body to protect the rights of citizens. The outer party members of Oceania have no rights except the right to love and obey Big Brother; the inner party members are compelled, on pain of death, to love Big Brother. The only “citizens” that have any rights are the proles, the lowest of the low in Oceania. They are considered to be free like weeds growing in a meadow. “As the Party slogan put it: ‘Proles and animals are free’” (Orwell 72). As Americans we have a basic constitutional right to a jury of our peers. This type of criminal trial, including the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination. The most important amendment of the United States Constitution that would improve the life for the Oceanian outer party members in 1984 by George Orwell is the Fifth

This is especially important in Oceania because more of then not when someone has been convicted of thought crime and they have shown remorse, it is often revealed later that they are released back into society and then despite their interrogation they are vaporized. “He was back in the Ministry of Love, with everything forgiven, his soul white as snow. He was in the public dock, confessing everything, implicating everybody. He was walking down the white-tiled corridor, with the feeling of walking in sunlight, and an armed guard at his back. The long-hoped for bullet was entering his brain” (Orwell 297). Winston may have been dreaming, but no one can know for sure. This suggests that even though “criminals” have been released into society, they still can be rearrested, taken to the Ministry of Love and