Riana and Sam

 Wrote 1984 as his own personal message to society for freedom of expression
 In writing 1984, showed how people would react under a totalitarian government

 Party manipulates everyone into being the same person
 Only aware of certain “facts”
 Everyone is like their robot

 Destroys all sense of identity
 Everyone wears the same clothes, eats the same food, lives in the same apartments

 Brainwashed into another “clone”
 Keeps him from showing his true identity
 Any individual thought is borderline crime

 “To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing was an instinctive reaction” Book 1 pg. 16
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 During 2 minutes Hate
 Everyone was afraid to show any signs of personal thoughts
 Never showed their true identity

 “ Who controls the past”, ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” Book 1 pg. 28
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 The Party slogan
 Control all aspects of life  easily change facts from any point in time as if they never existed
 When a person dies, it’s as if they never existed
 No identity

 “ You could not have friends nowadays, you had comrades ” Book 1 pg. 36
 Party does not promote any sort of relationship
 One can learn more about themselves by building a relationship with someone else
 Can develop identity

 “You’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness, its useless shads of meaning”
Book 1 pg. 39 (iBook)
 Syme speaking to Winston
 Newspeak = less words to memorize, all repeated/attached to suffixes and prefixes
 Party is trying to eradicate individual thought by not giving people many words to use

 “ Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four ” Book 2 pg. 57 (iBook)
 Winston writing in his diary
 Simple math can be overruled by the Party
 Believes that once we can believe this fact, we are free

 “There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” Book 2 pg.
149 (iBook)
 Winston thought, just because a person is different, and thinks differently to apparently everyone else they are not necessarily wrong.
 Thinking IS Identity.
 Led to his downfall

 Control of the people leads to control of their identity which leads to a mass of people unable to be their own person
 They becomes clones of The Party
 No individual thought, loss of themselves