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1984 Quote Analysis

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The quote “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past” appears twice in the novel 1984 (Orwell 32). It is a slogan used by the Party. In book one it emerges as Winston is thinking about how the Party claims to have never been in alliance with Eurasia but in reality they once had been. The lie had been written into history and accepted into fact. In book three, while O’Brien and Winston are talking during one of their torture sessions, O’Brien makes Winston repeat this slogan. This quote ties in with the theme of the manipulation of history throughout the book. The power of the Party allows them to not only alter the past but control the present and shape the future. The Party creates a past for the
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