Spies In 1984

Ian Pinkerton
English IV 3rd Hour
January 19 2016
Controlling the People of Oceania
People are controlled quite easily by a government. George Orwell, aka Eric Arthur Blair wrote the novel 1984 in 1949. This novel was written about a man named Winston who lives in Oceania which is placed in a London where government surveillance keeps people in check. Winston wishes to rebel against the party and does so by having a love affair with a woman named Julia. Winston enjoys this but he wants more so he seeks to join the Brotherhood and pays the price for doing so. The party controls its people and if the people step out of line the government will fix the problem. It’s clear that the party uses many ways to control its people such as surveillance
People knew spies were dangerous, “but then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all”(Orwell 78). Spies let the party watch people and they are very dangerous. Spies give the party control in a similar way that the telescreen does. The people never know if there is a spy around, but because there could be people that act the way that the party wants them to. Spies “adored the Party and every-thing connected with it”(Orwell 31). That’s another reason the spies are so dangerous. Children are also very dangerous due to their easily excitable personalities because they would even watch their own family. “With those children, he thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it.” (Orwell 31). Any crime against the party is a crime against them. They love the party so it makes them more dangerous and more likely to catch you. Even a spy can’t listen and watch everything so they need something else to
The party uses something called the Two-Minute Hate. The two-minute hate was “impossible to avoid joining in”(Orwell 19). The party uses the two minute hate to make Goldstein(enemy of the party) the bad guy. Goldstein was made out to be the bad guy and he was a “Swine!, Swine!, Swine!”(Orwell 19) to the people watching the video. Even people like Winston who says “I hate him”(Orwell 355) found it “impossible to avoid joining in”(Orwell 19). The party uses the two minute hate to not only show that Goldstein was the bad guy but to also show that Big Brother was “...an invincible, fearless protector, standing like a rock against the hordes of Asia, and Goldstein...”(Orwell 19). The two minute hate isn’t the only way the party utilizes