Saturday, July 11, 2009

How is social control described in 1984?

Social
control is achieved by maintaining constant warfare and requiring patriotic support for the
cause, making thoughtcrime illegal and having the Thought Police enforce apprehension and
punishment for infractions, constant surveillance by Big Brother, and running a massive
propaganda apparatus that issues information in Newspeak.weaves his descriptions of the
mechanisms of control into the novel, making it seem natural to the citizens but sometimes using
s questioning as a way to highlight specific aspects of control.

Winstons
work for the Ministry of Plenty involves the production of statistics that support the myth of
victory and prosperity. He understands that his work is largely


€¦the substitution of one piece of nonsense for another. Most of the material you were
dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world€¦. Statistics were just as much a
fantasy in their original version as in their rectified version.


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