Why Do People Have Power In 1984

Power is the most influential thing that many people wish to have. Some Government believe that once they have power, they will have everything under control in their hands. Moreover, in order to maintain that power forever they will have to do everything to keep people under control. Just like a book called 1984 by Orwell illustrated all kind of things that the power influenced people in Oceania like how they treated people, controlled psychology and actions of the citizens. These are how government controlled the citizens based on social class and they divided it into three classes. First, Inner party that known as “The Party”. The Inner party had only 2% of the population and yet they had been provided enough food and drink also living
First of all, the way they use a language to communicate. The government invented a new language that made everyone in the Oceania couldn’t think of the revolution and disregard toward the party (Orwell, p.VIII). Next, people were careful to spoke to each other as if they couldn’t trust anyone, someone could be a spied and one wrong word led to dead (SparkNotes Editors, 2007). Another reason is the Party trying to reduce the ability to think of citizens or they call it brainwashing. The government tried to eliminate the independent thought of the citizens (SparkNotes Editors, 2007). Plus, the government made children faithful and love the Big Brother since children is easily to influenced and inspired them to spied on their parents if they showed any sign of rebellion (SparkNotes Editors, 2007). Lastly, the Party made the citizens believed in what they said. Like the Party said “2+2=5” even though, it didn’t make sense but people forced to believe in it and pushed what they thought 2+2=4 away (Orwell, p. 66). Additionally, the quote “WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGHT” could be define as doublespeak (Orwell, p. 6). In fact, doublespeak were the combine of newspeak and doublethink which means saying one thing but meaning another and this was a purpose of the party that is used to trick or fool thier people (Topdog08, 2016). Thus, the citizens had to shut down their mind also watch out of what they said and
In North Korea the leader doesn’t care about their citizens. This country is good at technology but as we knew that they don’t let people use smart phone or connect the internet except for those who are senior government officials (Wikipedia contributors, 2017). So we can say that that writer had already predicted the future that some countries will be like Oceania. Furthermore, in this story it’s very unfair how they treated people based on their social class especially, toward the proles. They shouldn’t compare human to animal just because of their low education, it not means they didn’t know what they do. Just like Myanmar, the Muslim people treated like animal and they lived in fear some of their houses were burned and lost their job also some were killed due to discrimination and different in religion (Patteran,