The ability of the party to control the people's thought was primarily because the people were extremely ignorant. Another slogan of the Party was "Ignorance is Strength." The stupider the citizens were, the stronger the Party was. The main way the Party kept the people ignorant was through the use of Newspeak. Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and its main goal was to limit the range of individual thought. Newspeak got rid of any words that encouraged political opposition and any form of independent thought. Syme, the editor of teh latest Newspeak dictionary, said, "‘Newspeak will make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no words in which to express it."' When the Party abolishes thoughtcrime, they abolish any opposition to their power and gain absolute control. Since Newspeak decreases the range of thought, it also decreases the people's knowledge and therefore makes them more ignorant. The more ignorant they are, the easier it is for the Party to manipulate them.

Every record of their existence was destroyed and Oceania was cleansed of the threat to the Party. The reason the government had absolute power and acceptance from every citizen was because those who did not accept the control of the Party were vaporized.

The Party had control over human thought by altering the past and the memories of the people. People did not have the ability to remember incidents of the past. In the Ministry of Truth the past was altered. Everything from the past had been changed at one time or another.

"Every record had been destroyed or falsified, every book had been rewritten, every picture had been repainted, every statue and street and building had been renamed, every date had been altered." The Party had complete control of the past, present, and future. Everything the party claimed was true, was accepted by the people as true. The thought process of every citizen in Oceania was based on what the Party claimed to be true. The Party had such an extreme control of the people's thought that if the said 2+2=5, the people believed it, and the people believed the war they were fighting had always been against the same enemy, even if the enemy had changed two minutes ago.

The citizens of Oceania live in constant fear. They fear the war that is constantly being waged between the three superpowers, Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia. One of the Party's slogans is "War is Peace." As long as Oceania is at war, the Party will always be in control. War is used to scare the citizens into submission. They fear that the superpower they are at war with will win a victory over Oceania. The citizens are led to believe that the battle moves closer to Airstrip One each day. The Party accomplishes this belief by dropping rocket bombs on the

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