Manipulation In 1984

George Orwell, 1984, represents a totalitarian ruler that tries to seek power beyond its citizens. To maintain this high power, Big Brother has established different manipulations on the citizens of Oceania. All these manipulations including language, technology, and altering past historical events. By manipulating Oceania, it can continue to provide change. In addition to these manipulations, there was additional ministries: Ministry of Truth, Love and War. The Ministry of truth, love and war represent its significance of the Party. In certain countries with a government similar to Big Brother, yes it can control the minds of the people.
Communication and language has been manipulated. With the alteration of language from English to “Newspeak”
Telescreens act just like our modern day electronic devices since they “control our lives.” The use of telescreens in 1984 has been used to control the society in what they can say and do. To Winston, telescreens represent misery because he isn’t able to get the freedom that he wants and has always wanted. He is waken up by the telescreen. He would always be tracked down wherever he went. Telescreens have been used as an alternative form of communication in Oceania. On the other hand, televisions used in modern day have been used to show the true reality with news happening in different nations. We can take the example of the United States of America. Through different uses of propaganda to achieve different goals including joining the army and raising awareness of social media, it is proven that they are trying to manipulate its citizens. On the other hand, Hitler has represented a man who claimed that Jews did not have the right to exist causing further more kiosk. From looking at this point of view, people started hating him. By sending haters to death camps and using them as slaves, this was how he tried to kill
Something that makes the Party unique is the fact that citizens aren’t able to keep past records. If they are kept, they would be destroyed. During the process of manipulating the history of the present and destroying the past, the Ministry of Truth claims “When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or when one saw a scrap of paper lying around, it was an automatic action to life to flag off the nearest memory hole and drop it.” (Orwell 40). This means that all the memory lost during the destruction would be dropped in the memory hole and therefore be lost. Memory means nothing to the Party. The only truth comes from the Party and what it tells its citizens. Past events, “have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories… And since the party is in full control of all records and in equally full control in the mind of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it... “ (Orwell, 222). This goes to show why there is manipulations being done in the past to control what is going to happen in the future. In addition to the party manipulating the past, Winston Smith has also worked for the Ministry of Truth for a short period of time. Part of his job was to manipulate the history of Oceania to make it sound more pleasant. He had to make past documents incorrect to make sure that it correlates with the