THE FREEDOM WHICH IS NOT TO CARRY IS NOT TO KEEP

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 57 - 63, 29.12.2019

Hamdi Jarada

Abstract

Freedom is a desire for people who live under the ruling of dictatorship or totalitarian regimes which has stirred revolutions throughout history and continue to do so in the 21st century. However, the idea of freedom is sometimes not fathomed by the majority of people in those demeaned revolutionary masses. The corruption that ensues after revolts is the result of misinformation and misunderstanding of their basic human rights in a country. Moreover, it is the blind belief and naïve nature of the masses as well as their weakness of making decisions are what makes a whole country fall into the lies of colonization under the concept of liberation and freedom. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the animals start craving a change in their life status and begin themselves to revolt after the death of Major. Similar to the aforementioned colonized people, the propaganda that is widely spread by the character Napoleon keep them worrying as well as working for the sake of the greater good of the farm, under the illusion of freedom. As much as they suffer before the death of Major, it seems the animals of the farm never learn from their mistakes and get lost in the same whirlpool of lies and fake promises made by the ruler of the farm which denotes the colonization of the minds of the animals in which the concept of freedom is still vague and alien to them. The spiral of colonization in George Orwell’s Animal Farm reflects the animals’ failure to maintain their sovereignty, and as a result, the fall into second slavery effortlessly, which suggests that the real colonization lies in the mind.

Keywords

Hegemony, Sovereignty, Domination, Slavery, mind decolonization failure

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