Propaganda And Historical Revisionism In George Orwell's '1984'

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“Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come. You were the dead; theirs was the future. But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.” pg 110 | The only way to live is to become one of the proles. Become unconscious to the surrounding politics and live. As Winston is, he'll eventually die. | “But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink.” pg107 | The totalitarian government wants the people to actually believe what they tell them without question. | “When once you…show more content…
| “The Ministry of Peace wages war” pg3 | I can only assume that proles are the ones fighting in these endless wars. They're the only ones that believe and love their corrupt government. | “The Ministry of Truth conducts propaganda and historical revisionism” pg3 | Working in the Ministry of Truth has to be the worst because they force their employees to lie both to themselves and to the rest of the people. | “The Ministry of Love is the center of the Party's operations of torture and punishment." | To the proles, it's like any other jail/prison but, for the people between the Party & proles, it become a transformation center to turn them all into brainwashed zombies. | "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" | The signs are everywhere and Winston assumes the telescreens are actually watching him but, it took the party too long to catch him. The screens feel more like a bluff.

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