In a fictional world named Oceania exists a manipulative government, Big Brother, that seeks to control the mindset of every civilian. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the government uses various tactics to have better control of each individual, but the most effective one is Doublethink. Doublethink is the ability to maintaining two views that oppose each other. This government tactic is used to detect those who are unloyal to the Party, Big Brother. With the use of Media Censorship: Freedom Versus Responsibility by Irum Saeed Abbasi and Laila Al-Sharqi, the reader can unveil the constant similarities with this fictional world to the real world. Doublethink is the best government tactic compared to the other methods due to its efficiency and effectiveness. Doublethink in the novel essentially means the ability to maintain two different views that contradict one another and to truly believe that both views are true. In this world usually the Party, Big Brother, has the ability to control the mindset of the public, in order to …show more content…
In order to enforce their laws, the government creates devious methods of punishment. In the novel it is mentioned that one form of punishment is vaporization. Vaporization was a way of punishing people who were caught by the Thought Police. Once being caught, the civilians would vanish in the middle of the night, “It was always at night—the arrests invariably happened at night….the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest.” ( Orwell, 24). After disappearing all of the information of the individual is then wipe out as if they never existed, “Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out” ( Orwell, 24). To avoid vaporization the public must learn how to master Doublethink in order to thrive and survive in a corrupt