In his book 1984 George Orwell displays how a government controls and manipulates its citizens so that a small number of people remain in power, which is important because it shows the dangers of a totalitarian regime. Orwell uses plenty of examples in his book to show just how easy it is for a government to control a population. George Orwell shows how through the control of history the government - or “Party” as called in the book - controls what people know or think they know. History is a powerful tool that future generations can learn from. However, if history is controlled and rewritten like it was in 1984, then it prevents people from learning from it and allows for the Party to have more control over the people. By controlling history the Party …show more content…
By saying this, Orwell shows us that because the Party controls everything, they control history and are in turn able to control what people are able to look back and reflect on. By being able to control what they look back on, the Party is able to stop the general public from using history as a rallying cry against the Party. The general population falls for the rewritten history because “if all records [tell] the same tale - then the lie [passes] into history and [becomes] truth” (Orwell 35), the general population can not tell what is true or false because there are no historical facts. Control is a big part of the Party’s rewriting of history; by “rewriting past records to fit the Party's current narrative demonstrates how controlling the past ensures dominance over the present and future” (Abdushukurova 225). The dominance over the present and future is formed because the general population can not think back to a time that was better which results in them always thinking the the Party was the best thing which stops them from having any rebellious thoughts because the general population would not want to rebel against the best thing that happened to them in their