1984 Who Controls The Past

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the preset controls the past.” The quote is a representation of what the party believes in. In the novel 1984, this quote is used to illustrate to the audience that the party controls its citizens and how this quote is also used as the Party’s slogan and what the Part represents. This is quote establishes a tone for the novel, which is darkness and illustrates to the audience that the party was falsifying the records and changing the past. The party has full control of the present, which gives them the full ability to alter the past. When the party controls and changes the past this ensures the future because the past can be treated as conditions that justify any future goals of the Party. This quote is also significant to this story because it emphasizes how gullible the citizens of Oceania are. The citizens of Oceania have a short term memory and believe every and anything the Party will tell them and they bow down to the party and O’Brien. O’Brien also argues that changing the past is essentially the only past that the citizens will believe. The citizens are taught what to believe and are not allowed to have their own thoughts as citizens of the great Oceania. …show more content…
It also expresses the symbol of the novel 1984, the telescreens. The first quote I stated demonstrated and expressed how the party controls what the citizens of Oceania think. The Party has full control of the past and has the ability to alter what happened in the past. This line in 1984 introduces how intrusive Big Brother is to members of the