The citizens of Oceania are sheltered from what is real. This affirms the government’s power because they are able to mod the minds of their citizens without difficulty. With things like the Ministry of Truth, whose job is to change the past in a way that coincides with the government ideals, Big Brother is able to easily indoctrinate false information in the minds of every citizens. Even contradictory statements like “war is peace”, “freedom is slavery” and “ignorance is strength” (27). could so easily be embedded in the hearts and thoughts of the people. Big Brother and his party brainwash their citizens, not giving them the freedom, or opportunity to think for themselves. They even trick their people into thinking this freedom is actually a bad thing (“freedom is slavery”). This deception is known as doublethink, which is the ability to accept two different beliefs simultaneously. Big Brother has trained all people to accept the flaws in his ideals and make them believe they are not flaws at all. By censoring and even altering the truth, Oceania has characteristics that resembles those of any other totalitarian …show more content…
His goals are to only maintain status and power, and do anything to keep himself and the party in total control. Like Adolf Hitler, Big Brother is only concerned about his own well being. They both use certain strategies to keep everyone low enough so that their dependence on their parties are absolutely necessary. Also, if anyone were to disagree with their tactics, they would be punished accordingly. This leaves no room for rebellion and all room for tyranny. In short, totalitarian governments including Big Brother’s party have the same goal: keep control and