This is the question posed through out 1984, and it demonstrates that power creates reality and truth by controlling mans minds, the only existing place of reality. ... The government takes advantage of the new mood of hopelessness displayed, and takes hold of the consciousness of the people. 1984 takes place in a dictorial society, in which power creates reality and truth. ... The government created an endless present with a "flawless" falsified past. ... The people of Oceania are at fault for their own allowance of domination. ... The reeducation in Winston and the rest of populatio...

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These are a few of the reactions that crossed my mind as I read this , "1984" written by Orwell. ... It was even conceivable that they watched all the time" There is no doubt that through both "Big Brother is Watching ", what do you feel when you read these Newspeak and Thought Police, the system of government in Oceania has adequately prevented the people from thinking against it. ... For example, Syme, a middle-class worker in Oceania reveals the concept of this surveillance is placed on the people, they learn to comply with their society and eventually begin to value it automatically. In ...

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