The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, is setting in a negative utopian and the author is going to illustrate a fictional, worst human society, telling his audience how the totalitarianism governments work, penetrating analysis of the psychology of power and the ways that manipulations of language and history can be the very useful and strong tools to control the people, in an effort to warnings readers notice the dangers of a totalitarian society.
Throughout the story, there is a large amount of contradiction in Oceania and the Party’s governance. Among them, I think the biggest contradiction is the three slogans of the party: “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” These three slogans must be the most times show …show more content…
And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it…For when it has been recreated in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version IS the past, and no different past can ever have existed.”(Chapter III, The Theory And Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism, Emmanuel Goldstein)
Moreover, in order to strongly control the past, the Party also requires every people to master the ability of “DOUBLETHINK”. According to the definition, DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. So now we are not hard to imagine why the people of Oceania can widely accept all the contradictions even though they are seeming paradox.
In conclusion, though there are so many contradictions in Oceania, the dominating Party of Oceania still successfully making his people widely accepted those fallacies by various strategies. Among those ways, falsifying the history, warring with other countries and doublethinking are the most helpful tools for rulers to control their people’s mind. And more importantly, Orwell vividly describes a totalitarian society and reveals the danger of totalitarianism to readers, warning people to avoid any path that might lead toward rising up such form of
Throughout the story, there is a large amount of contradiction in Oceania and the Party’s governance. Among them, I think the biggest contradiction is the three slogans of the party: “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, AND IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.” These three slogans must be the most times show …show more content…
And since the Party is in full control of all records and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it…For when it has been recreated in whatever shape is needed at the moment, then this new version IS the past, and no different past can ever have existed.”(Chapter III, The Theory And Practice Of Oligarchical Collectivism, Emmanuel Goldstein)
Moreover, in order to strongly control the past, the Party also requires every people to master the ability of “DOUBLETHINK”. According to the definition, DOUBLETHINK means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. So now we are not hard to imagine why the people of Oceania can widely accept all the contradictions even though they are seeming paradox.
In conclusion, though there are so many contradictions in Oceania, the dominating Party of Oceania still successfully making his people widely accepted those fallacies by various strategies. Among those ways, falsifying the history, warring with other countries and doublethinking are the most helpful tools for rulers to control their people’s mind. And more importantly, Orwell vividly describes a totalitarian society and reveals the danger of totalitarianism to readers, warning people to avoid any path that might lead toward rising up such form of