How Does Winston Smith's Use Of Totalitarianism

Motto of Totalitarianism
George Orwell’s one of the most famous novel ‘1984’ cynically portrays the corruption of totalitarianism. Through various regulations the party set up for the people and indirectly experiencing it by Winston Smith’s, the main character of the novel, perspective relief the problems of totalitarianism. Among the systems the party set up to control and brainwash people, one of the most significant symbol that reveals the way of totalitarian government regulate people is INGSOC’s motto: War is Peace, Freedom is Slaver, Ignorance is Strength. These paradoxical phrases which do not make any sense to normal people, makes perfect sense when it is referred as in the view of Big Brother, or people in higher position to controlling power.
To begin with, the phrase War is Peace explains the usage of war in INGSOC to maintain the totalitarian system. Being continuously in the state of war definitely scares people
and put them in the state of tension. Thus, they are more willing to depend on government. Also, due to the rising of the patriotism of people in war, it is easier to make people to trust them by saying they have same wish and aim; to win the war. Moreover, it is good reason for massive spending on money, not to spread the wealth to the common people. As the government gets people to trust and rely on them while they are not doing much favor, being in war is a great way to keep the peace since people would not rebel on government. The government is using war in order to keep peace for themselves.
Secondly, the phrase Ignorance is Strength shows how the government brainwash people for their ignorance to earn the strength over them.
In the book, Winston mentioned that the Proles are the hope for the future once they acknowledge the corruption they are facing and experiencing. This shows that the ignorance of people give strength to the government that people cannot disobey hence they do not know how and why they should disobey. Also, the fact how government is putting more emphasis on the member of the party than Proles shows that they are more concerned of smarter people’s acknowledgement than lower class people who do not have access to much resources. The way how government are manipulate the record of the past and present is also another way to promote the ignorance of people that as they do not remember and learn from the past, they would not be able to work out for improvement. Controlling memory, brainwashing, thought crime, and mind police are the way to make sure people are ignorant that the government can have power over
them. Lastly, the phrase Freedom is Slavery shows how government’s situation changes when people get to have freedom. Government exists to serve and organize society in democracy rather than to control them fully. However, the way totalitarianism works is opposite. They try to control the tiniest bit of people. The people are slavery in this situation. But if the citizens of totalitarian government cause a revolution and adopt new government system, such as democracy, the party’s freedom to control the people vanishes then due to their role to serve and work for people; they might feel to become slave. Thus the phrase says, people’s freedom is party’s slavery. George Orwell who implies messages warning people of how dangerous totalitarianism is well described in this book. Especially with the motto of the INGSOC, he explains how government can sacrifices people for their own good lying how it is for everyone’s benefit.