Political issues are something that never gets old, that's why a book written in the late 50s still carrie truth over 60 years later. In Orwell’s 1984, the people are living in a world where they are oppressed and the real issues is that they don’t think they are. Additional, the people who could actually overthrow the government are satisfied with their life, but they are just as blind to the reality they live in. With all this in state, the Party is in a perfect place to stay in control, as long as people are not awaken to their trickery. Therefore Orwell, explores oppression by the government in 1984, by showing how the government manipulates literary devices such as paradoxes, irony and symbolism in order to keep people oppressed.
