Most people in Oceania don't know of anything that is happening around them. They seem to be going on with their lives as if nothing has changed. Winston is aware of what is going on around him, everything the government is doing. Winston is baffled that people are okay with everything. His conclusion is that maybe they have not been alive long enough …show more content…
It does everything to wipe out the memory of the people in Oceania. People are blinded by the Party to the extent that they do not remember what Oceania was before Big Brother, what they know is what the party tells them, and the mental manipulation is accompanied by falsification of public records to match the lies. People believe that life is better under Big Brother and since there is no evidence in contradiction, people have no choice but to believe what is presented to the as the truth. George Orwell writes that there is two types of propaganda that big brother used to control the citizens of Oceania completely one in which he will change truth called doublethink and another where he installs fear called doublespeak. Fear is a huge part of oceania that is inflicted by big brother by invading privacy and manipulating the citizens into thinking war is peace and they are safe under the protection of big brother and without him their lives are nothing. The people are under strict laws that are not written in a constitution so they can be changed at any moment if they wanted to which also inflicts great fear on the people having the ability to make some crimes more serious than others if they wanted to. Also the thought police are a big fear as well making the people feel as if they are always being watched and if they show any expressions or even think for themselves they will be arresting and it usually ends