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“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness, O’Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge. One could mystically share in. But with the voice from the telescreen nagging at his ears he could not follow the train of thought further” (Orwell 87).
The people in this society live in a place where the government prohibits many actions and is lead by “Big Brother.” The different tasks and names that various organizations in the society handle really don’t reflect what the people do. For example, the Ministry of Truth, where Winston the protagonist of the book works, they change everything that the media has said to eliminate any errors that the government has made and go against it. The Ministry of Plenty handles the economy and watches over the people. People are prohibited from saying bad things about the government, but even thinking about bad things about the government can end up badly. If suspicion builds up upon a person who might possibly be thinking negatively about the government, he/she could be arrested for “Thought Crime”. Also, the Ministry of Love is not “actually” related to love, rather it is a place where people who have committed crimes and have been caught go. This passage shows that Winston is thinking about staying firm against the society as he talks with another character in the book.
Throughout the novel, a Dystopian setting has been set up. There is a slogan which all the people of the society of Oceana live according to. That slogan is:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Word Count: 220
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