Piggish Nature Of The Government In George Orwell's Dystopian Novel 1984

The ability to control someone’s thoughts has has been the goal of the party since its inception. The party being the fictitious government created by George Orwell, the author of Dystopian Novel 1984. Orwell designed the government to illustrate the piggish nature of dictatorial regime. The story follows protagonist Winston Smith. Smith attempts to join an underground society helping to overthrow the communist leadership. The party puts forth the idea that “War is Peace” which can be explained by what looks like a simple cycle at face value. Orwell created in his book a parallel universe that took Earth’s Geopolitical setting in a not-so-different way. Orwell when writing the book in the ‘forties, saw the possibility of the world splitting

The slogan is easily seen as an Ironic statement, but it can actually be explained in a simple cycle. Three superstates of Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia all extend across the globe except for the disputed territory. The center of the world is disputed between the world powers and within are resources and slave labor which produce goods. The powers are constantly at war so the people of each nation state are content with giving power to the government, the entire goal of this cycle. The public produces good so the army fight small battles to get slaves to produce more goods which continue the war. So essentially, the slaves of the disputed territory produce goods which in turn make them produce more goods. The government achieves absolute power because the public is frightened, the use of goods in the war keeps living standards low so the public doesn’t become educated enough to question the government. The ability to have eternal power is achieved through this cycle. We can see this in our own world because the war complex in America keeps the economy strong, and the strongest and most stable the economy ever is, is when there is war. The human machine needs war to survive, and George Orwell just brings this abstract to an exaggerated