George Orwell Use Of Control In 1984

What if we lived in a world where the thoughts within our very own minds were not safe from the outside world; where your feelings were so dangerous you were better off not having any at all? This world exists in George Orwell’s 1984, a novel about a man named Winston Smith who lives in the completely controlled superstate of Oceania, also known as the Party. Winston goes along with the crowd loving and depending on it; not doing so would be fatal. But he finds ways throughout the novel to secretly rebel and enjoy the little that he can. Winston thinks he is careful and safe, but eventually gets caught and discovers he was being watched the entire time. The Superstate has no flaws; there is no escape, not even for someone like Winston who

A huge part of their government is a daily period called the 2 minutes hate, where everyone watches a film that strikes rage against the Party’s enemies. The people scream and yell in anger, hatred, and fear. This develops hate towards the government’s enemies, fear of what might happen if they were to rebel, and love towards big brother. In the novel, Winston describes what he sees during the hate: “In its second minute the Hate rose to a frenzy. People were leaping up and down in their places and shouting at the tops of their voices in an effort to drown the maddening bleating voice that came from the screen” (Orwell 14). The Two Minute Hate is the primary public gathering the superstate uses; however, there are other events that motivate the people as well. The people of Oceania go to public hangings and gather to watch videos of enemies being hurt and destroyed. This has the same effects as the 2 minute hate does and is beneficial for the Party in terms of the new generation being loyal, because the children are especially excited by these cruel events. Even if the public isn’t at the hate or a hanging, they are constantly seeing the Big Brother slogan in every corner of Oceania. Big brother is the symbolic figure in which the Party uses to represent their power and beliefs. As Winston looks outside, Orwell illustrates what he

In fact, part of the Party’s slogan, ignorance is strength, is how they can manipulate the public. The ignorance of the people is how the party has strength, and the strength of the party causes the people to have ignorance. They dehumanize them by stripping away the minds of the people, sometimes by changing language altogether. In Oceania, they have their own language called newspeak, which makes words more simple and condensed. This minimizes ideas and creativity, on behalf of their being no words to do so. When Winston is speaking to a friend who works in newspeak, he tells Winston the purpose of it. He explains, “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it’” (Orwell 52). Not only does the Party create things to limit the power of people, they take away things as well. To destroy knowledge and development of the mind, they must destroy evidence of the past. This is done in the Ministry of Truth where Winston works. His job is to literally rewrite the past by completely destroying and rewriting articles, or even adding an entire story that never existed. The Party can create the past in ways that benefit them, giving the people a feeling of vulnerability towards big brother. While Winston is talking about the Party dealing