What Are The Effects Of Being Told In The Book 1984 By George Orwell

In the novel 1984, the Party and government located in Oceania also deceives its own people. The regime modifies history to deceive and trick the people living in Oceania into believing their lives are flawless and marvelous. Additionally, the Party doesn't only control history and its existence, it also controls people's minds and thoughts. Winston, the main character in the book finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He works at the Ministry of Truth, a place that helps alter history. After all, “continuous alterations are applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodical, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, soundtracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold and political or ideological significance… In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor war any item of news, or any …show more content…
They have no choice but to believe it because they cant tell if it's a lie. The civilians are effectively blind in the aspect of knowing what is going on in the world around them. The net effect is the people are living in two worlds while only knowing they are in one. The community thinks everything is going well, and they have no reason to go against it because it's all they know. The Party has fully achieved its abundant desire to deceive the people and attain absolute control. The people in Oceania act as robots. This is because they live through the brains of the Party and what it wants. The people can’t ever think for themselves because the Party limits what they know and how they think. The civilians are essentially programmed into thinking in certain ways that benefit and protect the Party. Near the end of the book, Winston and O’Brien were about the scape this “alternate universe.” As they were about to escape, O’Brien let Winston in on a secret he was a spy for the