Examples Of Hitler's Deception In 1984

In 1984, by George Orwell, the party got into power by killing the part of Oceana’s population that didn’t approve of the party. This is not a special strategy in itself, it has been attempted in places like World War 2 in Germany. However, Hitler’s deception is nothing compared to the tricks the party uses to make sure that nobody fights them to get their freedom back. The party is able to get away with killing so many people to stay in power because of a few different reasons. The first is that they reward citizens who report other citizens for doubting the party. The next is that they encourage loving the party, and encourage hating people who don’t love the party. They also change the past, and play tricks on people in the present to get them to believe ridiculous things like two plus two equals five. They torture unloyal people, and they do all of …show more content…
They use Big Brother as a father- figure and as a leader the people can look up to, so that they are too busy supporting Big Brother to think about anything else. When the people are distracted, this lets people like Winston do their jobs. People like Winston trick people into believing everything the Party tells them by changing the history books. This is unfortunate because even though Winston wishes he could remember his memories more clearly, “But it was no use, he could not remember: nothing remained of his childhood” (1.1.3), he works for the party by changing the truth to lies.
Even if tricking the people and distracting them isn’t enough, the party still can keep its citizens controlled by hurting them. They are very good at torturing them. They have a very specific way that they torture their people so that they always get what they want. They don’t just want to hurt the people so much that they’re scared to fight back. They want to scar their