In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, Oceania is a state in which Big Brother and the Party looks for absolute power over its people. They put methods of control through physical restrictions, surveillance, propaganda, and degradation of language to create fear and paranoia to gain control of the people's minds. In Orwell's story, the Party's victory is absolute and its ruling is unstoppable. The Party tricks the citizens of Oceania into thinking that their propaganda benefits the working class, classism is used as a means of allowing the Party and its associates more power and control than the average citizen, and people under the Party's rule are commoditized physically and mentally to ...view middle of the document...
The worst part of the book is that no one person could trust their own family. The children in the book would turn in the parents for anything that went wrong. The children were like a smaller version of the thought police.The room 101 which contains ones biggest fear. Every minute of the day, every person was being watched by the television. One wrong move and a person could be charged with thought crime, double think, or face crime. The idea of room 101 is that it is the place where everyone meets his or her worst fear. The people are sent there after they have endured much pain already. They are sent there because it is known that once they are there they will confess everything and offer up anyone else to take their place. The pain that they will endure there is so much that they will give anything to not be there any longer. This place is known to be a place where no one wants to end up. When someone is ordered to go to Room 101 they are not quite sure what will be there, they just know that they do not want to go there. They know that this is the place where everyone meets his or her worst fear.Possibly the most effective way they control their citizens is through the use of telescreens. The telescreens provided the government with constant supervision over the lower class outer party. Telescreens were everywhere, able to pick up motions, sounds and visuals. Through the use of propaganda, the Party has tricked its citizens into believing that their controlling ways benefit proletariats, when in fact they only allow this oppress...