Analysis Of 1984 By George Orwell

In the novel 1984, written by George Orwell, it is clear that the members of Oceania are heavily influenced into blindly believing the ideas of the Party without any questions. Throughout the book, these mantras are constantly repeated: war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength. Clearly, the first two mantras are natural opposites of each other, but the last one is not the complete opposite. Instead of saying weakness is strength, George Orwell states that ignorance is the true strength behind the Party. It is evident that the Party goes to great lengths to make sure that no members, besides the Inner Party, are intelligent and are ignorant of the truth behind the Party. To achieve this the Party punishes against opposing thoughts, intelligence, and free will.
However, he is constantly worrying because he thinks that the thought police will catch him and vaporize him. The Party cannot actually know what a person is thinking, but by making the members believe that they can is a way to control and have power of the people of Oceania. In this case, ignorance is a tool the Party uses to control the members of the Party and to easily see opposing members of the Party. After Winston writes, “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” into his journal “ . . .he was seized by a kind of hysteria” (Orwell, 18-19). He thought that after writing strong negative feelings about Big Brother that he would surely be vaporized or taken in by the Party. His ignorance of what the Party actually knows causes major stress to him, however, he also knows that even if he was intelligent he could never defeat the