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War Is Power In George Orwell's 1984

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“War is Peace/ Freedom is Slavery/ Ignorance is Strength” (pg. 4). These words were plastered on every building long the sidewalk within the pages of 1984. 1984, a novel by George Orwell in 1949, shows what their future might hold. The people of 1949 could have thought their world was going to be horrible, and very controlled future; but we all know now that it was never true. 1984 starts out by introducing Winston Smith and tells of Big Brother. As the novel progresses the reader learns that Big Brother is a front for the Party or government. There is also an uncovering of Winston, he works for the corrupt Party but for some unexplained reason opposes the face. So the question is, how could a corrupt government of a town survive by hate? There are many factors to a hate-filled society trimmed by the Party survival. Within the sentences and paragraphs of the novel, there is love, hate, and rebellion from the characters residing in the novels pages. …show more content…

With changing one small word, it could corrupt the mind of millions. With the insight of the Party, it shows how a group of people could corrupt each other and the hundreds of others following them. Erasing the past is just one thing the government does within the story, there is so many other risks they do to ruin someone. In the novel Orwell writes “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” (pg. 37). It confuses people who know the truth of the forgotten and in return they oppose Big Brother. Winston is one of the few on the inside who knows and understands why he opposes the thought and words of the face of the Party. He witnesses firsthand how the government runs the society he lives in. It is proof a government can always be worse than it may seem

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