War conveys a conflicting situation between opposing forces leading to hostility and antagonism. Furthermore, warfare is about demolishing a society's own wealth to not, "make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent," (191). George Orwell's novel, "1984," elucidates or explains a totalitarian civilization in Oceania where an individual, Winston Smith, ventures to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia, which is prohibited by the Party's principles. Orwell applies the use of syntax and literary devices to express the rhetorical argument of war affecting human labor.
Affecting the lives of humanity and labor works, war influences the thought-process and consciousness of the masses. Moreover, Emmanuel Goldstein, author of The Theory of Practice Oligarchical Collectivism, believes that, "the essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor," annihilating any possibility of the manufacturing of weapons, (191). Using simile to compare the strict structure of the Party to reduce any excess production, Goldstein states that, "in principle the war effort is always so planned as to eat up any surplus that might exist after meeting the bare needs of the population," (191). Additionally, personification is portrayed by the action, "eat up," of a nonhuman matter, "effort," to state the lack of control the society possesses, (191). Continuously, Winston Smith analyzes that, "ultimately it is scrapped as obsolete, never ending brought any material benefit to anybody," clarifying the uselessness and negativity of feuds, (191). Because no well-being has evolved, labor is altered, which reduces any view inside one's mind.
While the production of labor is being changed because of strife, and the lifestyle of citizens is being transformed.
