Journal #1
In the novel the stranger the Government governs all. The people do not question the authority or the power of the Government because it is always right and they are forced to agree with the Government because of all the secretive societies telling them to and to think against the Thought Police. Like the Propaganda with all of the posters, and all of the Ministries. In the first chapter it shows that Winston is the only one to remember a time before the Totalitarian state in the Government, this is due to the fact that all the others are being brainwashed and cannot remember a time before their state of being. They have always been taught to follow whatever the Government says. I chose this next passage because it depicts how much of a higher power the government is than the “normal” people in society. This shows how they are all to have to upmost respect for the Ministries and how the people are physically more small than the Government itself.
“The Ministry of Truth – Minitrue, in Newspeak* - was startlingly different from any other object in sight. It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on it’s white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”
(Orwell 4).
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