The term loyalty has extensive connotations. It is faithful adherence to a leader, cause, country, etc. It is devoted, steadfast, and oftentimes senseless. It motivates high-ranking officials, average working adults, children, and everyone in between. The Party under Big Brother desires this unthinking obedience, which prompts their governmental regulation of words. On page 193 of 1984, Orwell dictates, “The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought.” These goals that are outlined in The Book are the driving force behind all actions of the Party and Big Brother, especially the dissolution of language. George Orwell’s oppressive Oceania strictly
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From the beginning of the book, his command is made evident; a poster by Winston’s apartment bears the slogan, “Big Brother is Watching You” (2). A huge force that is respected and feared, Big Brother’s power is unquestioned. Big Brother is constantly observing, or so says the propaganda, and this incites fear and obedience in the people. Telescreens and the like help actually execute this constant watching, but simply the words expressing the concept cause people to check themselves and every little action, even those seemingly imperceptible. This idea of what the Party says is reality is also present in the wars with Eastasia and Eurasia. On page 154, it declares, “It’s always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyways”. The wars are purely meant to encourage patriotism in the people, to force them to pledge allegiance to the force that is Big …show more content…
The main Party slogan is doublethink, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (26). This motto redefines what are peace, freedom, and true strength in order to successfully lure citizens into a loyalty to their supreme fact giving. This statement made by the Party urges those who hear it to adhere to everything Big Brother demands. Additionally, the Party in Oceania had redefined love, and therefore effectively brainwashed its people into following Big Brother, and Big Brother alone. At the end of the book, it is revealed about Winston, “He loved Big Brother” (298). Relationships with people are destroyed because of this propaganda and because the citizens are taught that complete loyalty to Big Brother is the equivalent of love, they blindly follow the path set for them. Even Winston, who held out against the Party’s control, succumbs to the powerful word manipulation that exists in Oceania when he admits to loving Big
From the beginning of the book, his command is made evident; a poster by Winston’s apartment bears the slogan, “Big Brother is Watching You” (2). A huge force that is respected and feared, Big Brother’s power is unquestioned. Big Brother is constantly observing, or so says the propaganda, and this incites fear and obedience in the people. Telescreens and the like help actually execute this constant watching, but simply the words expressing the concept cause people to check themselves and every little action, even those seemingly imperceptible. This idea of what the Party says is reality is also present in the wars with Eastasia and Eurasia. On page 154, it declares, “It’s always one bloody war after another, and one knows the news is all lies anyways”. The wars are purely meant to encourage patriotism in the people, to force them to pledge allegiance to the force that is Big …show more content…
The main Party slogan is doublethink, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” (26). This motto redefines what are peace, freedom, and true strength in order to successfully lure citizens into a loyalty to their supreme fact giving. This statement made by the Party urges those who hear it to adhere to everything Big Brother demands. Additionally, the Party in Oceania had redefined love, and therefore effectively brainwashed its people into following Big Brother, and Big Brother alone. At the end of the book, it is revealed about Winston, “He loved Big Brother” (298). Relationships with people are destroyed because of this propaganda and because the citizens are taught that complete loyalty to Big Brother is the equivalent of love, they blindly follow the path set for them. Even Winston, who held out against the Party’s control, succumbs to the powerful word manipulation that exists in Oceania when he admits to loving Big