Patriotism In 1984

In addition to using language to control the beliefs of the citizens, the governments in both novels control the information available to the citizens for the same reason. The Party in 1984 manipulates historical records to instill patriotism into the citizens and also to prevent the citizens from learning of anything that may cause rebellious ideas. In chapter three of the book by Emmanuel Goldstein that Winston receives from O'Brien, the reasons for the falsification of the past is discussed:
The alteration of the past is necessary for two reasons . . . The subsidiary reason is that the Party member, like the proletarian, tolerates present-day conditions partly because he has no standards of comparison . . . But by far the more important

It is also that no change in doctrine or in political alignment can ever be admitted (Orwell 221-222).
As a result of the Party’s manipulation, all records show “no change in doctrine or in political alignment” (Orwell 222), which leaves the citizens with nothing to compare their current society to and prevents them from questioning the Party’s ways since they do not know of any alternatives. Similarly, the Party must “safeguard the infallibility of the Party” (Orwell 221) because if it is discovered that the Party is erroneous, the citizens’ loyalty and trust in the Party would decrease greatly and rebellious thoughts could arise among the general populace. Similarly, the World State in Brave New World uses Neo-Pavlovian conditioning in order to instill values beneficial to society into the citizens. When the Director gives a group of new students a tour of the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre, he describes Bokanovsky's Process and the various forms of conditioning that the State uses to show the children what their job in the future will be like. The Director takes the students to watch hypnopaedic lessons, a form of conditioning, and he explains that the lessons are repeated to the children “till at last the child’s mind

In 1984, the Party manipulates emotions to make them beneficial to society. Everyday, the citizens of Oceania participate in the Two Minutes Hate where they must express their hatred for the Party's enemies. While the Two Minutes Hate was taking place, Winston reflects on the effects that the Hate has on him. Winston notes that at one point, he feels hatred toward Big Brother and the Party but right after, “his secret loathing of Big Brother changed into adoration, and Big Brother seemed to tower up, an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein, in spite of his isolation, his helplessness, and the doubt that hung about his very existence, seemed like some sinister enchanter, capable by the mere power of his voice of wrecking the structure of civilization” (Orwell 16). Like Winston, the other citizens are greatly affected by the Hate and their emotions shift from “a desire to kill, to torture” (Orwell 16) early on to an adoration for Big Brother, expressed through chanting the initials of Big Brother which acts as “a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother” (Orwell 18). When the Party shows the Party’s enemies, the citizens become fearful and hateful. The Party then placates the citizens using Big Brother which causes the