George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

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As the people living in Oceania, the government was so bad for citizens because the people in Oceania suffered through their government because the government had complete control for its people. As well the government just wanted to get power, and rather did not care for their people. In addition, the government lied to the citizens in order to pursuit their interest. Firstly, the government had complete control for its people. Every citizens would be monitored by the government, and they did not have any privacy in any real sense, especially members of the Outer Party. Ubiquitous pictures and telescreens reminded citizens that the government would know whether people had any actions and ideas to might compromise the Party’s regime. Winston …show more content…

As well every apartments were put forcibly a telescreen, which did not only babble any informations that the government spread for citizens, but also be monitored by Thought Police all the time. Nothing for the citizens was their own except the few cubic centimeters inside skull. Ubiquitous information reminded every citizens that their life was always watched by the government. It would arrest or kill any people, if they had any ideas and actions which were different spreading information of the government. In addition, the government created Newspeak, which was official language of Oceania, in order to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. The government tired that Newspeak would have finally superseded Oldspeak. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc, but to make all other modes of thought impossible. A heretical thought—a thought diverging from the principles of Ingsoc—should be literally unthinkable. Winston worked at the Ministry of Truth, as an …show more content…

In the book, the government admire that Emmanuel Goldstein, who was the symbolic enemy of the state, had written a book “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”. There was a Two Minutes Hate and other fearmongering. However, Winston eventually understood that the book and O’Brien was made from Inner Party committee. Whether Goldstein or his Brotherhood are real or fabrications of Party propaganda is something that neither Winston nor the reader are permitted to know. In addition, Winston always rewrote a paragraph of Big Brother’s speech, in such a way as to make him predicted the thing that had actually happened. For example, Big Brother predicted falsely that Eurasian would defeat North Indian, the sentence from Big Brother should be changed. Even though some articles were changed, always the reference was to errors, misprints or misquotations. “Comrade Ogilvy, unimagined an hour ago, was now a fact.”(pg. 50) The government