“A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face” (Orwell 74). In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the world has been overtaken by Big Brother, and has become a totalitarian society. To create this “lifestyle” the government has many methods of control to enforce conformity. Years later the government is still using the corrupt ways to manipulate the citizens. They use methods such as inducing copious amounts of fear, rationing necessities and controlling the hatred the population emits to enforce the law and keep everything under their control. In the
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Starting with the two minutes of hate, it is mandatory that you take part in it. If you were to not take part, then you would be arrested by the thought police immediately. Then there is the person who the two minutes of hate is directed towards; Goldstein. Emmanuel Goldstein is the face of the revolution against Big Brother and his allies, and if you ever want to live as close to a normal life as you can get in Oceania, then you must hate him. Another thing to aim the hatred towards him was the last minute change in who Oceania was fighting against in the war. It increased the hatred towards Goldstein because it was assumed that he was the one who was trying to sabotage them by making them disagree with who Oceania was allied with. Not to mention that a child’s only purpose in 1984 was to become a proper party member. So if you were to have children in the 1984 society, there were no actual family ties and the children were vicious. One example of this was with the Parsons children, “You’re a thought-criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you, I’ll vaporize you, I’ll send you to the salt mines!” (Orwell 23), is what the nine year old child had said to Winston when he went to borrow something from their mother. Then later on in the book when Parsons says, “It was my little daughter, she listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day.” (Orwell 233), it was found out that Parsons daughter of only seven sold him out to the thought police because there was no such thing as being there for your family. Especially if they were thought
Starting with the two minutes of hate, it is mandatory that you take part in it. If you were to not take part, then you would be arrested by the thought police immediately. Then there is the person who the two minutes of hate is directed towards; Goldstein. Emmanuel Goldstein is the face of the revolution against Big Brother and his allies, and if you ever want to live as close to a normal life as you can get in Oceania, then you must hate him. Another thing to aim the hatred towards him was the last minute change in who Oceania was fighting against in the war. It increased the hatred towards Goldstein because it was assumed that he was the one who was trying to sabotage them by making them disagree with who Oceania was allied with. Not to mention that a child’s only purpose in 1984 was to become a proper party member. So if you were to have children in the 1984 society, there were no actual family ties and the children were vicious. One example of this was with the Parsons children, “You’re a thought-criminal! You’re a Eurasian spy! I’ll shoot you, I’ll vaporize you, I’ll send you to the salt mines!” (Orwell 23), is what the nine year old child had said to Winston when he went to borrow something from their mother. Then later on in the book when Parsons says, “It was my little daughter, she listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day.” (Orwell 233), it was found out that Parsons daughter of only seven sold him out to the thought police because there was no such thing as being there for your family. Especially if they were thought