Question

1984 by George Orwell

Are the people of Oceania forced to endure the oppressive regime, the invasions of their privacy and restrictions of freedom? Why do they do so?

Answer 1

George Orwell wrote 1984 in the year 1948 and the main idea in this book is that once civil liberties are taken from its people that all governments usually become totalitarian states, which are unlikely to give back peoples their civil liberties.

In 1984 , george Orwell writes that there was a lot of oppression, as it was a powerful tool, to maintain complete control over the citizens of Oceania and to maintain its totalitarian power over the state. The citizens of Oceania were oprressed in many ways, and key among them being the two minute hate and Hate week, in which the party work the citizens into a frenzy of hate aimed at whichever superstate they are at war with at the time, either Eurasia or Eastasia, and at Emmanuel Goldstein, a former inner party member who turned against the party, and who directs terrorist actions against the party, they also during the hate show pictures of Big Brother to further increase their love of him and to further oppress them. Such propoganda and use of slogans(war is piece) and various uniforms( red sashes that were worn by party member ) were used to oppress people. The party spread fear into every homes through telescreens also. Even if anyone say something in their sleep subconsciously, he was tortured, and even killed sometimes. It is through the telescreens and the party’s reputation of punishment that the party are able to oppress everybody all at once continuously. Examoke being Mr parson, who murmured subconsciously in sleep ‘down with Big Brother‘ and he was tortured for this.

So people of Oceania were forced to torture and impression by the party. They were left with no other option than to endure the opressive regime and their opressive.