Examples Of Slogans In 1984 By George Orwell

Have you ever been watched every second of the day, even doing little things like going to the bathroom? Does someone constantly tell you what to do and how to do it? In the book 1984 this is how most of the people of Oceania lived. They are controlled by the “Big Brother” that nobody knows who are what it really is. In this society they go by three slogans and which says in the book, “FREEDOME IS SALVERY, WAR IS PEACE and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”. (Orwell 4). In this paper it will talk in detail about how these slogans relate to the story.

Freedom is a big part in life because if you didn’t have it then you wouldn’t really be living your life, someone else would. Freedom is to do anything and to think anything you want or believe. In the United States of

The world in 1984 is divided into 3 states: Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia. Oceania is always at war with one of the country’s and allies with the other. In the book Winston says, “Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war, but it was evident that there had been a fairly long interval of peace during his childhood, because one of his early memories was of an air raid, which appeared to take everyone by surprise.”. The book starts out that Oceania is at war with Eurasia and that Eastasia was their allies. Towards the end of the book it changes where Oceania is at war with Eastasia and Eurasia is their allies. The Party thinks that if they are constantly at war with a different country then there will be peace in Oceania because there will be nothing to fight about. There is also people that work for Big Brother and The Party that changes history and Winston is one of those people. He is constantly changing the past so no one can relate things to the past or think about how it was in the past. The Party does this because they want to maintain peace in Oceania and have total control over the