Oceania's False History

In order for the “Big Brother” to maintain this ideology, the ruler needs to have highly organized system and individuals to follow each and every task. In the novel, Oceania’s society has reached the level of brainwashing. In order for anyone to conquer such a vast and complicated system, the individual will need a highly-organized plan and a sophisticated mind to carry through. Winston possesses neither of these traits; therefore he was doomed to fail.

In the novel there are many instances where it is evident that Winston shows he does not believe in Big Brother and the party. One instance is when Winston explains he works in the Ministry of Truth, and says how he changes the history to agree with Big Brother. This shows how he knows the government is manipulating the other citizens minds because he is the one changing the history. Another instance is when Winston is writing down with big brother into his journal. During this time, Winston is starting to feel a rebellious

In the beginning of the book we see that Big Brother is in charge of Oceania and at the end of the novel, Big Brother is still in charge. The beginning of the novel is important as the end, however, nothing seems to change Winston loved big brother then later he questions himself why he loves Big brother. After being torture he no longer has questions of Big Brother or where his loyalty is he loves and respect Big Brother. “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Book 3 Chapter 6). During the novel, Winston wanted to join a rebellion and fight against Big Brother but after being torture Winston hopes faded and ended up if nothing has happened. The only thing Winston change is some words that went against the Party but after losing his job and being torture he went along with whatever Big Bother said. Which made no difference to Oceania since they have still had to follow and obey the Party and their awful

This is shown in part 3 of the novel where Winston feels the full extent of the brutal power of the Party when he is taken to the Ministry of Love where he is tortured and brainwashed so he can’t remember things that have happened, he is made to be like everyone else in Oceania. This is shown when O’Brien tries to persuade him:

Winston goes through emotional change throughout 1984 that changes his perspective and personality. At the beginning of the book, Winston is filled with hatred towards the Party. “They’ll shoot me in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother they always shoot you in the back of the neck i dont care down with big brother-” (Orwell, 19). Winston’s fury towards the Party and Big Brother is evident. Through his diary entries, you can definitely tell that he harbors an intense anger towards them. So, it may seem that this trait will never change and make him always fight for it. The reader may at first think that he will never change views. But then, Winston completely changes perspective at the end of the book when he states, “He loved Big Brother.” (Orwell, 298). This keeps Winston from becoming another boring character who refuses to change his opinion which makes for an interesting book and a more complex character.

Granted the Party can warp laws and control knowledge, its greatest tool for taking away freedoms and controlling the public is its ability to revise history. This idea is displayed throughout the novel, and is fundamental to our understanding of how perfect the Party is. A prime example occurs when Winston is at his job at the Ministry of Truth, the manipulators of history and truth. He contemplates how he simply substitutes one lie for another in his daily work rewriting history, and explains, “And so it was with every class of recorded fact, great or small. Everything faded away into a shadow-world in which, finally, even the date of the year had become uncertain" (Orwell 36). This highlights the genius of the Party’s control; there is no history. As mentioned earlier, the Party controls all publications, and destroys all facts that are not helpful. Much of it is simply fake information that bolsters the Party. Thus, when Winston changes

Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, ironically where the past is erased. History defines the human race: books, art, and ever-progressing science help the next generation to achieve greater or create new and different works of entertainment and literature.

Winston’s job within the novel is replacing history of what actually happened with a “revised version”. However, he becomes concern in rewriting the history, even though he enjoys his work, because he want to know what actually did happen to the specific period,

In George Orwell's "1984" society is manipulated and guided by an organization called the Party and an anonymous figure named Big Brother, who is used as God. One of the main aspects the Party controls is truth or tries to control is truths in the society and the truth in the minds of the individual themselves. The Party creates what they want to be true to make the individuals ignorant so they can manipulate them easier. This twist of the truth by the Party makes it seem like truth doesn't actually exist, but for Winston it does exist or it once did. Truth does exist if the individual is rebellious to the extent to where it will not get them vaporized and Winston is one of those rebels. He and others are able to experience

Chan notes that,”Narcissists will often tell stories about themselves — sometimes repeating the same story over and over again — and many times, the story will be about an instance of personal heroism or an exploit.”(Chan) Narcissist will tell tales about events in their that will most likely be fabricated with lies or invent the whole tale to get people’s attention and gain trust. This is shown throughout certain events in the novel that readers identify. For example, the Two Minutes Hate program that plays on a daily basis, has various messages about who the society’s primal traitors are, stating crimes against the Party, and all of the accomplishments of Oceania.(1.1.12) Through the messages, the Party along with Big Brother use their authority to make the people submit to their statements and believe they are true. Winston, who works at the Ministry of Truth, knows that some of the information provided in the Hate messages and newspaper are false. Winston’s job is to rewrite the history between to make it seem as is if Oceania is the one rising from the wars as the glorious winner when in reality, they are not. Winston realizes that if the Proles and anyone else thought about why the Party was doing and what their initial plan was, there could be unions of people waiting to start a civil war. Unfortunately, the Thought Police

In Winston’s world the Big Brother always makes sure that he is right, the newspaper is always being changed to make his words true. Today we had a lot of things like these happen, they just show us what they want to see. Sometimes they just show us one side of to history, the side they want so the information is totally controlled by the midia. In American movies, for example, most

For the Party, the past not fixed and permanent; its reality is evident only in records,” (Becnel 11). Throughout the novel, it was often mentioned that the Party hired workers such as the main protagonist, Winston, to alter history the way they wanted it. If the Party has control over what was written down in history, they can easily manipulate their citizens to believe anything that they claim is true. This ability of control over history has also opened up the opportunity to alter the memories of the citizens of Oceania. Being able to control the memories of the people and causing them to believe one thing and another is an example of doublethink. The Party used doublethink in order to increase and strengthen their power over the citizens.

Despite Winston's passionate hatred for the Party and his desire to test the limits of the Party's power, his capacity to carry out action against the Party is burdened (i.e. lacking positive freedom) by his intense paranoia and overriding belief that he will ultimately suffer scrutiny and brutal torture for the crimes he

Winston does acknowledge the why. Winston has always asked himself why go through all the trouble of manipulating the past. “The immediate advantages of falsifying the past were obvious , but the ultimate motive was mysterious”(Orwell 83). Winston figures out that the party manipulates the past in order for them to gain more control. If they have control of the past, then they have control of the present and the future. Winston had a photo of Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford and was thinking of exposing it, but then when he told Julia about the photo, she responded, “‘And what good was that’”(Orwell 162). A bit of a newspaper is not going to denounce the party, and if Winston were to show the public, then he would be vanished just as the others

It is very understandable to argue with the point of view that fact does not matter, in fact, this is perhaps the single policy of Oceania that Winston is most against. At one point Winston muses that “if [Oceania] could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death” (35). And he is right, that is a terrifying thought. “Truisms are true, hold onto that!” is the rallying call of logic, it says that “two plus two make four” (93). That is what most ordinary people will hold onto, the belief that a true statement deserves recognition as such no matter if most people claim as such. At various points in the book Winston wonders that “perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one” (82). He flip-flops between the two sides but at one point, the point that people most agree with him, he decides that “if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad” (223).