The Party flood its subjects with psychological stimuli designed to overwhelm the mind’s ability for independent thought. The telescreen in every resident’s room blasts a steady flow of propaganda designed to make the past and present failures of the Party appear to be triumphant successes. The telescreens also monitor behavior everywhere the people go. Citizens are constantly reminded, especially by means of the ever present signs reading “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,” that the authorities are studying them. The Party challenges family structure by introducing children into an organization called the Junior Spies, which brainwashes and encourages them to spy on their parents and report any example of disloyalty to the Party. The Party also forces individuals to hold back their sexual desires, treating sex as simply

In conclusion, 1984 is similar to our government today. Because we have our freedoms, or what we believe to be freedoms, we are able to be set apart from the Totalitarian society of 1984. Like the Romans said, “We are slaves of laws so that we may be set free”.

The party controls the past by not allowing individuals to keep records of their past, such as photographs or writings of any sort. As a result, memories become fuzzy and unreliable, and citizens become perfectly willing to believe whatever the Party tells them. 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.

In essence, 1984 is similar to today’s government. We have false freedoms. We have to freedom to say what we think and to petition what we think is bad; but yet, when we do, we are the ones getting arrested and fined, not the ones who we petitioned about. We have no say over our freedoms just like we have no say over what our country does. In 1984, Oceania was either at war with Eurasia or Eastasia, but whomever they were at war with, they had always been at war with. Today, we are at war with Iraq, and had been at war with them for over a year. But, if we look further back in time to after September 11th, we would see that we were at war with Afghanistan, although the government says that we were never at war with Afghanistan. Of course, the government also says that we are not at war with Iraq, we are “liberating them”, helping them out. We are at war though, a war on Terrorism which allows our government to go in and destroy other countries because they feel there is a fear of terrorists in those countries. To us, “Goldstein” is

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