Fear Confusion And Intimidation In George Orwell's '1984'

Fear, confusion and intimidation are not just feelings. If they are used in the right way they can be used for control and power. A dictator in a totalitarian regime will use these emotions to control his people. The world that Winston Smith lives in has no personal rights, poor living conditions, and everything is controlled by hatred, even the people's history and language. The language Newspeak is being implemented by the government to limit the possibility of political rebellion by eliminating all words relating to it. The history is changed in a effort to confuse the population into believing the governments version . In 1984, fear, confusion and intimidation are used to control the society and to ensure that the totalitarian regime can maintain its power. In the novel, the world is broken into three different super-countries: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Eurasia was formed when Russia took control of Europe. Oceania was created when the U.S absorbed the British empire and Eastasia is a amalgamation of the remaining nations. These countries are in a constant state of war with one another fighting a perpetual border war. One
Winston knows this because he works for the government and his job is to change the history to benefit the government. For example Winston remembers that no one had heard of Big Brother, the leader of the party, before 1960, but stories about him now appear in the histories going back to the 30's. As such, the government is looked upon as having given the people all that they have, which makes it unlikely that there would ever be a revolt. This is an act of confusion that the government uses to make the people think that what they have done in the past has been successful and what they want to do now will also be