1984 George Orwell Language Analysis

People are too intimidated by the Party’s control to take any action against this overwhelming power. The telescreens and Thought Police assist the government in their force and intimidation to control. No one dares to make a subtle facial expression that may trigger the Thought Police. The telescreens could be watching and listening at any moment to catch one in an act of defiance. The Party’s cheapening of sexual pleasure is another point discussed where the threat of abuse keeps the inhabitants of Oceania in line. Even the idea of sexual pleasure was punishable by forced labor camps or abuse in Room 101. Sex to most people in Oceania has just become a chore that has to be taken care of periodically. People have sex just to provide children for the future of the government. The Party controls everything with this looming threat of abuse. Control over truth versus fact makes the strongest case for this constant threat. The Party mentally abuses one to influence them to accept everything the Party says as fact. If a person disagrees with the Party, the government can make the person’s life miserable both mentally and physically. This power and imminent menace of abuse keeps every citizen in line, whether they are rebellious or not. The warnings have been given to society, whether they take these warnings into account is left to the people. If they do not, Big Brother may be looming

With the power hungry Party and the most acknowledged face of Big Brother watching and monitoring everybody, the story of “1984” by George Orwell expresses the utmost control over their people and have the absolute power with their country Oceania. The Party believes that Big Brother will live on forever, because of the constant removal of those who are unfaithful and the rewriting of history. However, with the example of the main character showing disobedience against the Party, there is a chance for this type of ruling to fail and be destroyed by the people. The main possible cause of the fall of Big Brother is most likely the underestimation of the power of the people.

Psychological manipulation is one of the most prominent themes present in this novel. Not only are the citizens of Oceania manipulated by their government, but they are also physically controlled as well. The Party controls what the people do as well as think. There are signs posted all around the city Declaring “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 1).

Within the dystopian society of Oceania, the Party, also known as the leaders, convince their citizens that they are well cared for by the government. With their overruling power, they “watch” their citizens on a daily basis. Big Brother’s

Winston Churchill once said, “History is written by the victors.” This means that victors ultimately document history and have jurisdiction over it. They control the past, present, and the future, establishing their accounts of “history”. In 1984 by George Orwell, Oceania and the Party is the victor and have absolute power over history. The totalitarian government authorizes practically everything and manipulates the citizens to the most extreme level. From psychological manipulation to Newspeak to altering historical records by the Ministry of Truth, the Party is the victor, and will use its maximum power to transform even the most rebellious citizens into loyal ones in seek of attaining complete control of the past, present, and future. They attempt to suppress language and communication, sexual desires, rebellion, and memory both physically and mentally by the means of utilizing technology, Party members, propaganda (Big Brother), and altering history. Doing so grants them power and jurisdiction over the people and brings them closer to their perspective of a “perfect” society.

The proles were subjected to do a mandatory exercise in the morning in front of a party member on a telescreen. The living conditions of the people were controlled and there were hidden microphones that assisted in psychological manipulation. In Oceania the people were brainwashed, the party controlled their language, historical records , and thought. The proles worked in cubicles changing the words in the newspaper so it would be in favor of big brother. The party also commands that all loyalty must be given to big brother. The people are not even allowed to believe in god, if they do so they will be placed in jail to be be tortured or they will be killed. The party also killed people for any type of betrayal towards big brother even thoughts

In the society of Oceania there are 4 slogans that the Party uses to manipulate their citizens. These slogans are: “Big Brother is watching you”, “war is peace”, “freedom is slavery”, and “ignorance is strength”. However, the most important slogan here is “ignorance is strength”, which represents that the Party have its power through the ignorance of its citizens. The Party wants to keep their citizens ignorant because if the citizens had knowledge of how they have been manipulated and deceived, they will rebel against it, and therefore the party would lose its power. In fact, the Party does not worry about the proles, which are the working class of Oceania due that they are ignorant and they have no idea how the Party is controlling them. However, they are happy because they are not subjects of the same control as the members of the Party itself. In the other hand, the members of the party are subjected to sever oppression. The Party worries about the members of its own party because they are not as ignorant as the proles. Therefore, Party members suffer more oppression that the proles. As a matter of fact, Winston envies them because they are “free” and “happy”. In or society, most Americans live in ignorance thinking that the government is doing a great job. For this reason, the citizens do not question the decisions that their government takes. As Oceania, the main problem

They have the ability “to give you everything you want and to take away everything you have,” (Orwell, 184). Other than hope and security, the Party gives their people something of the highest importance and that is “bread and circuses,” (Orwell, 5) or in other words they give them food and entertainment. This appeases the people of Oceania, even enough to make them blindly obey the Party. Bread and circuses are essential to any modern society, since they provide us with purpose. They allow us to relax and stop thinking about the world we live in and instead think about nothing but bread and circuses.

The Party looks to control everything – past, present, and future. Its first exertion toward achieving that objective is to control and manipulate each source of information, reworking and altering the content of all historical records and other evidence from the documents for its own particular purpose. The Party disallows its members to keep composed records of their lives, and commands that any photos or reports be wrecked through "memory openings" set all through Oceania. Since memory is inconsistent, after some time, reality gets to be fuzzy, and citizens are soon eager to trust whatever the Party educates them. In this manner, the Party controls the past keeping in mind the end goal to control the present.

Power can be achieved through many different means in order to be successful. Living under the control of a manipulating party is not the ideal way to live. Control that is obtained and not earned will never lead to conditions worth living under. If a party obtains the influence over all states of being, then their power will be quite difficult to destroy for good. People under this supervision can never fully understand what needs to be done to stop the abuse for power for the reason that they have not lived independent lives. This sense of powerful influence is what the Party has over the citizens of Oceania. The Party is able to keep the society in check to its own beliefs through manipulation and the deception of its own citizens. Winston,

Throughout Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell goes into great detail of the gruesome physical and emotional tortures that the brutal Big Brother Party commonly practices. However, Orwell maintains that because it can be imposed onto the mass majority without causing immense suspicion or fear, the psychological manipulation of language is the Party's greatest strength. By emphasizing the manipulative connotations and restrictions of Newspeak, Orwell demonstrates the deep influence that language has on the public’s minds and memories. Orwell creates the totalitarian government of Oceania along with the omniscient Big Brother Party that watches over everybody at all times. In this society, the Party controls everyone and everything with the

George Orwell’s political parable, 1984, portrays an oppressive and dictatorial government, which thereby presents to the reader a palpable sense of danger and malevolence born out of the creation of a counter utopic totalitarian regime. Orwell’s nihilistic creation of Oceania, presents a world wherein every aspect of private and public life is abhorrently regimented and regulated by the autocratic ‘Big Brother’. The whole population at large is forced to conform to the ideals and beliefs of the tyrannical ‘party’ as a means of not only survival but also a means of being able to live an unabated existence. The party opposes all forms of individuality and

In this society, the Inner and Outer Party members are constantly being reminded of the Party’s power and are essentially brainwashed into thinking what the Party wants them to think and do at all times. Things like propaganda, two-minutes hate (rallies where Party members must watch a video of the Party’s enemies and express hatred towards them), telescreens which watch the people’s every move, and most importantly fear of being vaporized from their very world are what drives the citizens towards obedience and towards support for the Party. Orwell even says, “Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing” (Orwell 3). These examples show the many ways that the Party exercises its control. With all these things surrounding these people’s lives, it is no wonder they live in fear and are brainwashed. All they know and will ever know is of the Party. As Marx predicted, the Party controls the means of production in Oceania, so therefore they control Oceania itself (“Marxist Theory”

Dictators rule with absolute power, through many means unknown to the majority they manipulate and sculpt the people to their own desire. The totalitarian regime of Oceania is no different, except they have almost complete control over their citizens. The techniques they use to control the civilians are both hidden and openly used. The "inner party" has almost completely forced the outer party (the majority of the party) into utter submission, to follow their rules and regulations to the exact. Using these amazing techniques they rule over the citizens of Oceania with and iron fist. In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, the Government of Oceania controls the citizens by using fear and propaganda.

           In George Orwell’s 1984, the Party’s slogan “Ignorance is strength” is the foundation of the security of Oceania’s society. The proles’ ignorance to repression increases the strength of the Party and Big Brother, allowing them to have complete control and diminish humanity.  The most gifted citizens are assassinated, whereas the less intelligent, perish.  In Oceania, the non-ignorant  and independent citizens who risk their lives and chose to rebel, are the weak and therefor collapse.