Freedom Vs. Enslavement

In reviewing the book American Slavery, American Freedom, historian and author Edmund S. Morgan provides a chronological approach to the growth of slavery in North America. Morgan starts his journey with the first settlements in Virginia and continues until the start of the American Revolution. Morgan gives explanation of how ideals of freedom and English sense of superiority came to be a major stepping stone for independence and racism. Morgan’s question of how a country that proclaims liberty, equality and religious virtue can at the same time foster the opposing ideals of slavery and subjugation is the underlying question throughout the book. Morgan puts the critical issue on display, broken down into four areas or books, to guide our understanding of colonial Virginia, the development of slavery, and the link between racism and equality.

Rules have been around since the beginning of time for the purpose of safety and control in a population. But, what happens when there are more rules in place for the sake of control as opposed to safety? The novel Anthem shows that when there are more rules for control of individuals’ minds, they will be broken because the individuals realize there is more to be discovered than what they are being told. This can be seen through the plot and climax, as well as in the characterization of the protagonist and antagonist, and through Equality 7-2521’s first person point of view.

They cannot be whom they want to be, or act for themselves. All forms of individualism are repressed. These people are simply like tools in the dictator’s hands. These dictators can end the lives of others, choose who they will be and what they will do for the rest of their lives, and even what they will look like! The characters are forced or molded into what the dictators see as perfection. There is no such thing as a perfect society. Not everyone can be pleased, but at least there is a way the people could have the rights they

Tyranny or Freedom which would you pick, the American colonists were justified in fighting and seperating from britain. The colonists were justified to separate due to heavy taxes without representation and the unjust actions of great britain.

People are made to love their jobs and abide by the caste system. They are encouraged to take Soma in order to prevent negative feelings and stress. The citizens are compliant with their government because of the moral conditioning. Conditioning makes them effective at their job and makes them content with the rules set forth for them. Children start taking “Elementary Class Consciousness” and “Elementary Sex” classes starting from a very young age. Children are conditioned based on their caste. The lower caste babies are subjected to “Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning”, which conditions them to fear flowers and books. If the lower classes were to want these things, they would soon want everything that the Alphas and Betas have. The Director of the Hatcheries says “ Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child’s mind” (29). The citizens are basically robots being controlled by the world state. They are not allowed to question the ideology that is forced upon them. The magnitude of power the world controllers possess reinforced my attitude regarding the dangerous outcome it can lead to. I believe that there should be a limit to one’s power or otherwise, it can lead to instability. The definition of beauty is unique to every individual. The attempt to force everyone follow one definition of a utopian society is highly problematic

Our nation had to undergo rebellion, war and government reform, to finally bring an end to slavery. Howard Zinn provides a grim look at this experience in Chapter 9 of History is a Weapon. In the chapter entitled, “Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom”, the experiences of this time period are relived.

What is freedom? Have you ever wondered why the patriots wanted independence from the British government? For the colonist, freedom was a country without parliament and their taxes. When the king didn’t allowed them to be in the congress and then put taxes on them, the colonists got angry. To avoid this helplessness on their part, the colonists fought with the British because they wanted to establish a new government where they could make their own rules and laws.

Slave resistance began for many enslaved Africans before they reach the Americas. Karenga explained the many arrangements in which Africans resisted to enslavement, while in Africa, during the middle passage, and in the Americas. Employing the Karenga text one can evaluate the different resistances that transpired in Antigua as Cultural, Resistance, Day-to-Day Resistance, Abolitionism, Armed Resistance, Revolts, Ship Mutinies, and Afro-Native Alliance. One can conclude that enslaved Africans had an unrelenting resistance to enslavement (Karenga).

The way the Americans gained independence may not be as valiant as it seems. The war lacked just war criteria despite many arguments. The idea was foolish and unnecessary and proved the lack of development amongst this young territory. Many factors lead to this premature uprising and the French and Indian War is a great reason for most of those factors. The decision by the American colonists to revolt against British rule was premature and overly aggressive.

Flags burning under raining bombs, gunshots echoing through a field of raining terror, while hiding underground for the day where humanity can roam free again; situations as so aren’t exactly what people imagine when thinking about one’s future. Every death was honored by those who lived; lives lost during wars of any kind are unlike lives lost in our country today, not for the value of those once living are greater than another, but from how much those lives mean to this day. Establishment and preservation of freedom wasn’t easy and will never be easy; many people served until their last breath, for the freedoms of our lives today. That is why we must continue to grasp for freedom, and to establish and preserve our freedom most effectively we must have the heart to be free, and have united dedication to freedom itself.

Similarly, Huxley’s Brave New World depicts a government in total control doing all that it can to keep power over the people. From childhood, citizens in this society are conditioned to be perfect tools of the government. On page 22 of Brave New World, the Controller explains how babies are conditioned to hate and fear books and flowers, so as to destroy curiousity and promote work (Huxley 22). If people are formed in such a way where work and lesiure is all they know and love, deviance cannot occur. Also, ever before birth, citizens are forced into predetermined castes through chemical alterations. Early on in the novel, Henery tells Lenina, “And if you were an Epsilon, your conditioning would have made you no less thankful that you weren’t a Beta or an Alpha” (Huxley 74). Regardless of their caste, members of this world are okay with their situation because they are taught to love their position, no matter how degrading it can be. Much like The Party, Brave New World’s government takes special care to remove those who defy set rules and expectations. When explaining the islands to Hemholtz, the Controller says they are for “All of the people who, for one reason or another, have got too self-consciously individual to fit into community life” (Huxley 227). In order to preserve perfect obedient, society, the government eliminates the deviant by shipping them far away. The

The practices of a collective society such as the one in this book disregard all belief in the individual. By doing this, the society and its leaders brainwash the people into having no personal priority or authority. Everything is done with the betterment of the entire group in mind, no sense of self involvement. Their life is fated in almost every

My father once told me in life there are subjects and objects. He went on to describe objects as someone who is utilized as a tool and a does not have a drive force on its own. On the other hand, subjects are able to make decisions on their own. Just like modern society some people leads, and others will follow. Subjects will conditionally generate their own ideas and realize these ideas rather than just be assigned tasks that question their beliefs. The author Ralph Ellison illustrates it best. Ellison’s realistic fiction Invisible Man perpetuates the manifestation of manipulation over the minorities in this society. As the narrator embraces every identity he has been given, he starts to become more independent, and a leader in his

Many ideas are important within the American culture, but to the American sense of patriotism, freedom is most fundamental. The idea of freedom is central to the American politics – which is at times referred to as liberty. Since the birth of the nation, freedom has been the vocabulary of the American language and its importance cannot be underestimated. The Declaration of Independence, for instance, ranks liberty as an inalienable right. On the other hand, the Constitution reckons that it purposes to protect civilians’ liberty. The importance of freedom has even stretched further than the political arena and has prompted the birth of civil rights movements and other activist protests. The Cold War and the Civil War were all for the cause of freedom. The importance that Americans attach to freedom can also be demonstrated from the erection of statues, banishment of slavery, use of liberty poles and a right to vote for adults. For many years, women and the African Americans have for a long time fought against denial and infringement of their freedom . However, given the importance that Americans affiliate to freedom in the conceptualization of their country, it has been the subject of modifications over the course of years especially before the Revolutionary War.

of us fail to cherish and value our granted freedom. Many of us do not