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Well-educated
and trained people like doctors, professors, and engineers are often admired
and honored by a host of people for possessing a great amount of knowledge. Being
brilliant like philosophers, people believed that knowing many things would
always help others. However, knowledge often can damage himself or put him into
a dangerous situation. The person can be blamed for knowing too much information,
or can be punished by specific organizations as Galileo Galilei was persecuted
by the Church for asserting the theory of heliocentric.
Winston
Smith, the protagonist in the book ‘Nineteen-eighty four’ written by George
Orwell, can be one of the occasions which people suffered due to their
understandings. Winston was one of the middle-class executive under ‘Big
Brother’; the government with absolute power. One day, was curious about this government watching
each every citizen through ‘telescreen.’ Therefore, he got to know a furtive
organization name ‘Brotherhood’; struggle against ‘Big Brother’ to re-establish
the corrupted government. In spite of being a royal executive of the government,
Winston betrayed and abandoned his identity of middle supervisor. However, he
and Julia, who was engaged in the ‘secret society’ with Winston, were arrested
by ‘thought police.’ Day and night, they were crammed of the true royalty toward
the government.
If
Winston had not shown any weird actions but followed ‘the law of nature,’
established by ‘Big Brother,’ he would not have to risk his precious life for
the rebellion. Besides, if he had not questioned about both Big Brother and
Brotherhood, he did not have to be tortured by the thought police. Likewise,
obtaining knowledge is not always beneficial but often harmful. Sometimes,
being innocent and not knowing many things secure our lives. |