Patriotism In 1984

The internet twists up the truth of a story to the point that it is hard to know what to believe and what not to believe. Newspeak is done by the government to make their country seem better than it actually is. While, Winston is an employee at the Ministry of Truth, in the book 1984, his job is to change the news articles to favor their government and basically brainwash their people. Winston’s government wanted to be in control of the information that was getting released to their people to help control the thoughts that the citizens were having. Winston states, “And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the
In 1984 the government used newspapers and posters to patronize their citizens through a selective presentation of facts. Patriotism can be defined as an unconstitutional support of one thing versus another. Otherwise, the government wants support so they try to get their people to be on their side of a certain situation. Winston’s government sometimes changed an actual definition of a word to suit the purpose they are going for. Orwell describes in his book, 1984, that there have been some cases where the government provided a whole different way of speaking and defining a word, also known as
There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable. And it was to be foreseen that with the passage of time the distinguishing characteristics of Newspeak would become more and more pronounced — its words growing fewer and fewer, their meanings more and more rigid, and the chance of putting them to improper uses always diminishing.” (Orwell 311) When the meaning of words have been completely changed, citizens are then not able to pick out the truth of a