Examples Of Insanity In 1984

Insane Sanity is Doublethink Doublethink is controlled insanity. The Party integrates the principles of doublethink into Oceania's citizen's daily lives as their primary method of brainwashing. Even the Inner Party members exercise doublethink regularly and it is unclear whether or not they believe their lies. Sanity is granted to those who learn, understand, and accept doublethink. Sanity is insanity and insanity is sanity. To be sane in Oceania you must become insane by unconsciously exercising doublethink this process must be understood and simultaneously forgotten, consequently it warps reality, and gives the Party internal control for eternity. Oceania is a totalitarian society in which private and public life is controlled by the government. In order for the Inner Party to maintain this hold they use doublethink to mold their citizens into
The decrease of chocolate rations claiming to be an increase the next day, switching the target enemy in mid-speech at the height of Hate Week, and O'Brien forgets his denial of remembering the photograph and forgetting what was forgotten—this is the insanity of doublethink used in Orwell's 1984. However, by the end of the novel, Winston becomes an expert at doublethink by accepting the lies over truth
In order to do this they get inside the mind and make reality their own. “All happenings are in the mind. Whatever happens in all minds, truly happens” (Orwell, 278). An external reality does not exist; reality is in the mind and the mind as a collective, the Party's reality, it the true reality. The external world is controlled by the internal mind. The thought of the majority, those who have been conditioned to the Party's views, create and govern reality. No world outside of the Party's reality exists, if the Party ceased to exist then reality would collapse into