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War Is Peace By George Orwell Rhetorical Analysis

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The Price of Peace “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -Orwell,1984. The slogan of the Utopian world created by George Orwell in his infamous novel, 1984, may seem surreal but simultaneously real. Orwell purposefully constructed the Party’s slogan of this three paradoxes to make his intention intelligible. A paradox by definition means,“self-contradictory statement that when closely investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true,” (Paradox). Anyone from the Democratic society can see the conspicuous contradictions between the paradoxes in the slogan stated above. At first glance, the slogan,“Freedom is slavery”, automatically seems like an absurd statement because having freedom keeps individuals from …show more content…

When first thinking of war one can only picture chaos, death and disaster. No one can possibly associate war with peace because they contradict each other. Nevertheless, there may be instances when war can create peace within a society. The citizens of Oceania all demonstrate great loyalty to the Party and execute all their activities demanded, which ultimately brings peace within their society. As opposed to rebelling against the Party and initiating more conflicts. All party members are blinded by their patriotism so when Oceania changes sides from fighting with Eurasia to Eastasia and vise versa, the changes go unnoticeable as if nothing ever changed. Winston, the main character, recalls this, “Officially, the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia”(34). No one but Winston realizes the Party has switched sides, because the Party continuously “is weakening strength and independence of public minds” with propaganda intentionally created to induce terror.(Device) As a result, everyone believes every inane invention the Party says, no matter how ludicrous their statements may be because of the immense devotion they have towards the Party. This can also be seen in wars taken place in real life, one of them WWI. For instance, the use of propaganda was essential for getting people to be pro-war and being nationalists to the point where they would “do their part” and buy war bonds or join the military. Propaganda plays a prominent role during wartime because the intentions behind propaganda were to influence an individual's point of view. If an individual involuntarily and continuously is told peace will come after war, they are prone to believe the fatuous lie. The famous Uncle Sam, was created to persuade the average American man to join the army.(Cooke) Altogether,

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