Oppression In 1984

Hello, listeners. Welcome to the CCTV radio station. I am your announcer Shaun Chen, our topic of this week is oppression. As one of the issues that exists for thousands of years, oppression represents prolonged cruel and unjust treatment, and it is still one of the major issues of our contemporary society. In order to stop oppression, it is a basic requirement to have knowledge about it. So literature is a significant role because writers use their unique language to express oppression in a variety of texts and assistance readers to know what oppression is. It’s also relies on a particular set of cultural assumption, values, attitude and beliefs from the readers.
Before we start, let us have an outline about what is oppression. Oppression …show more content…
In the story in order to let the citizens more rely on governments’ protect the government creates a tense atmosphere to make citizens feel they are in war time period. The government also uses even more extreme methods of control. They changed big brothers predictions and destroyed all the evidences such as newspaper, they lying about production data’s and they might not even produce any. The quote “who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” (pg.35) it is evident that Oceania is a totalitarianism state and through this it shows us the pervasive control of political power to …show more content…
As mentioned in the book “on coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters and on the wrappings of a cigarette packet everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed no escape.” (pg.271) this demonstrates the whole society is under big brothers control, everything in life indicates big brother is watching over the citizens, people afraid to talk to each other and afraid to think, because thought crime is represented