Ministry Of Truth In George Orwell's 1984

Orwell’s 1984 follows the protagonist Winston Smith calling into question the rule of totalitarian leader Big Brother of the superstate Oceania. The author utilizes Winston’s occupation at the Ministry of Truth to showcase the constant manipulation of truth enforced by Big Brother. By changing and creating new documents, the inhabitants of Oceania are unable to differentiate between the original and revised versions. Kim Jong Un, ruler of North Korea controls and limits the amount of information released to the general public in order to establish a uniform society. North Korea and the world of Oceania consistently manipulate the truth and spread propaganda to ensure the inhabitants of the territories only know one way of life, contradicting …show more content…
Newspeak is “the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs on Ingsoc” (299). The purpose of Newspeak is to restrict the vocabulary of the inhabitants of Oceania in order to reduce the formation of rebellious thoughts. Parallel to North Korea, when Lisa Ling from National Geographic’s Inside North Korea asked: “Can the great leader do anything wrong?”, the man seemed genuinely confused because “it seemed there wasn’t vocabulary to question the leader” (National Geographic). Each year, the dictionary of Newspeak decreases in size as there is an increase in the elimination of words. Syme, an associate of Winston’s, describes the process as a wonderful concept: “we’re destroying words-scores of them...we’re cutting the language down to the bone” (51). By establishing a limitation on one’s vocabulary, it restricts the freedom to say what one wants, a restraint on the kind of freedom advocated for by Emmanuel Goldstein. In both Oceania and North Korea,“There is no freedom; it is a country run on tyranny and dictatorship” (National