What Is The Truth In The Book 1984 By George Orwell

Abraham Lincoln once said “History isn’t history unless it is the truth”. In the book, 1984 by George Orwell, he is warning us that while it is important for a government to maintain a level of secrecy, it causes a corrupt society because people can not trust one another, not knowing the truth can alter your judgement on society, and not knowing the truth can hurt you. At the beginning of the story you can see that people can not trust one another because it causes a corrupt society. In chapter one Winston talks about his everyday life and how someone is always watching him. In the book it says “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.” The telescreen in the quote symbolizes an eye. Someone is always
watching your every movement because the government doesn’t have trust on its very own people. The purpose of the telescreen in the book was to show that if we aren’t careful in what we let the government do to us it will cause a corrupt society. Imagine if our government watched our every move. It would be invading our privacy and it would cause us to not even trust one another. It would cause us to feel uncomfortable to know that you may be “friends” with someone that may be a government official while in reality they are actually watching your every move. It would cause a corrupt society because of the total lack of privacy and trust of its own government. As the story progresses, you can see that not knowing the truth can alter your judgement on society which entailed causes a corrupt society.
In the story Winston talks about how he works in the Mistry of truth and destroys past knowledge and creates lies. In the story, it says ““Books, also, were recalled and rewritten again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that any alteration had been made. Even the written instructions which Winston received, and which he invariably got rid of as soon as he had dealt with them, never stated or implied that an act of forgery was to be committed;”. The fact that the ministry burns its “false” history is bad in of its self. The government shouldn’t burn its history it should embrace what it did wrong. When a government burns its history to change its truth then people wouldn’t trust one another because one person may know something that may be the actual truth and another person may know the fake “truth’. They wouldn’t know the actual truth and know is right of not. It would cause them to not trust one another. Altering the truth would cause people to not trust one
another.