iately recognized themselves. Having just emerged from WWII, Londoners would have intimately related to the deprivation and destruction portrayed in 1984.

Control of History is another important theme in 1984; The Party controls every source of information, managing and rewriting the content of all newspapers and histories for its own ends. In many ways, Orwell’s novel reads like a history book; 1984 warns readers that the Oceania universe will be the future, if people fail to learn the lessons revealed by major historical events and figures such as WWI, WWII, Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. The Party understood the power of history for citizens to understand history; it would not allow the Party to survive. Thus, the Party eliminated nearly everyone who remembered the past before Big Brother. They created a new, post-Big Brother history, and then manipulated history through the Ministry of Truth so much that it was impossible to ever know what was happening or what had really happened. By controlling the present, the Party is able to manipulate the past, and in controlling the past, the Party can justify all of its actions in the present.

These are three of the major themes not excluding many other themes that also presented in the novel. The danger of totalitarianism was the main them

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