The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

Party fraud to the Oceania people.The news changes in Oceania happened in all 
the time. 
-at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at 
war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an 
ally(Orwell, 1961:180). 
The party claimed, for example, that today, forty per cent of adult proles 
were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been 
fifteen per cent. The Party claimed that infant mortality rate was now only a 
hundred and sixty per thousand, whereas before the Revolution it had been 
three hundred and so it went on(Orwell, 1961:74). 
Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In 
this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by 
documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or 
any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, 
ever allowed to remain on record (Orwell, 1961:40). 
This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, 
but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, soundtracks, 
cartoons, photographs to every kind of literature or documentation which 
might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance(Orwell, 
1961:39-40). 

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The power of the Party over Oceania is very strongly shown in the 1984 
novel, all goodness, discovery and victory are said to be the achievement of the 
Party. As the invention of the plane by the Party, it is undeniable to some people 
rememberthat the plane is actually found long before the party came to power. But 
the party's truthfound the plane to be published in such a way that no evidence 
could disprove the Party's opinion. 
Everything melted into mist. Sometimes, indeed, you could put your finger 
on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party 
history books, that the party had invented airplanes. He has remembered 
airplanes from his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There 
was never any evidence(Orwell, 1961:36). 
All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and rein scribed exactly as often 
as necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was 
done, to prove that any falsification had taken place(Orwell, 1961:40). 
A number of the Times which might, because of changes in political 
alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been 
rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and 
no other copy existed to contradict. Books, also, were recalled and rewritten 
again and again, and were invariably reissued without any admission that 
any alteration had been made(Orwell, 1961:40). 
And when memory failed and written records were falsified with that 
happened, the claim of the Party to have I proved the conditions of human 
life had got to be accepted, because there did no exist, and never again could 
exist, any standard against which it could be tested (Orwell, 1961:93). 
The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of any 
value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one 
could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names 
of streets anything that might throw light upon the past had been 
systematically altered (Orwell, 1961:98). 
As the justificationsabove, some people ignore their memories and thinks of 
themselves as erroneous and swallow everything the Party announces through 

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thetelescreen.In running the totalitarian government the Party has 3 Slogans 
namely: 
WAR IS PEACE 
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY 
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 
(Orwell, 1961:4). 
The three slogans above are used as a reference by the Party in regulating 
the structure of the Oceania society order, first it is said that WAR IS PEACE 
with the meaning during the battle, then the peace followed later, either won or 
lost the concept of war ended in peace even though Oceania never lost on the 
opponent Eurasia and Eastasia. Both FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, Oceania people 
are entirely forced to believe in the Party and remove their concerns about the 
conditions of war and bombing in the London area because the concept of both