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, the objective of the Party is quite simple: control. Though the Party
seeks to achieve this goal in a number of ways, they are encompassed under two specific
methods. The Party first manipulates the population's ability to express itself. In the
Ministry of Truth, the news of current events is "rectified" so that a certain
perspective - the perspective that presents Big Brother in the most appealing light - is the
only view expressed. The population, not knowing anything different, does nothing to question
what they hear or read. The use of Newspeak, the rather abbreviated language of the Party,
prevents the people from expressing themselves freely. With a much smaller vocabulary, the
creativity of language is stifled, as is any real ability to form a dissenting opinion against
Big Brother. Not only does the Party control the knowledge the population takes in but also the
way in which it can express itself.
The other form of control is a much more
physical one. While Newspeak will eventually silence dissent by the process of eliminating
problematic vocabulary, the Ministry of Love provides a much more immediate deterrent to
dissent. Those caught by the Thought Police are taken to the Ministry of Love, where they are
"re-educated," or "vaporized." In the latter case, the Party erases any
evidence of a person's existence. In the first case, somethinghimself experiences, his mind is
remolded in the pattern favored by the Party.
In both cases, the Party
establishes its one goal - control. They control the thoughts of the population not only by
psychological and epistemological means but also by physical ones.
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