1984 Propaganda Analysis

First and for most, technology within “1984” was used as a great means of propaganda. In the book, the means of propaganda was not some child throwing newspapers on their front porch, solely because they didn’t have paper. They used an item called a telescreen. This telescreen was in every building and home, for those of the Outer Party, the Proles were not bothered with having one. The Outer Party citizens were the basically the middle class, whereas the Proles were the lowest of the low. Propaganda would be demonstrated on these telescreens, easily and accessible for any Outer Party citizen. For example, one type of propaganda they enforced through there telescreen was the Two Minute Hate, the Party would show a video to get everyone riled up on hate about the conflicts against …show more content…
For any Outer Party citizen there had to be a telescreen in every building and home, an example of this is when Winston went up stares in Mr. Charrington’s shop he realized there was no telescreen, he was shocked to find this out. The telescreen kept tabs on every Outer Party citizen, by hearing what they say, and watching what they do. Because of the telescreen, the thought police were easily able to accuse those of thought crime. Sometimes, if there was no room for a telescreen, they would put microphones to eavesdrop on citizens, in the text it stated “’ I didn’t want to say anything in the lane, ‘she went on, ‘in case there’s a mike hidden there. I don’t suppose there is, but there could be. There’s always the chance of one of those swines recognizing your voice. We’re all right here’” (Orwell 119). This quote accurately explains that just because there was no room for a telescreens, did not mean they wouldn’t use other means of technology for surveillance. Hence, there was so much technology, surveillance was something that could easily be attained within their