The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

Party. 
Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the 
Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose 
that goes with complete honesty. To tell deliberate lies become 
inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back 
from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of 

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objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one 
denies — all this is indispensably necessary (Orwell, 1961:214). 
Although Oceania is not recognized in legal terms, it is certain that the 
Party's totalitarian government system with all its non-written rules eliminate the 
private life of the community. 
In Oceania there is no law. Thought and actions which, when detected, 
mean certain death are not formally forbidden, and the endless purges, 
arrests, tortures, imprisonments, and vaporizations are not inflicted as 
punishment for crimes which have actually been committed, but are merely 
the wiping-out of persons who might perhaps commit a crime at some time 
in the future(Orwell, 1961:211). 
...., private life came to an end (Orwell, 1961:205-206). 
4.2 The Totalitarian Effects to the Society  
Some of the effects of Big Brother's totalitarian governance system in the 
state of society in 1984are demonstrated through the depiction of the social 
conditions within the novel itself.The posters and shadows of Big Brother power 
lie almost throughout the Oceania region, the poster said that ―whatever you do 
Big Brother is always watching you‖. 
There seemed to be no colour in anything expects the posters that were 
plastered everywhere. The black-mustachio‘s face gazed down from every 
commanding corner. There was one on the house front immediately 
opposite. BIG BROTHER IS WACHING YOU, the caption said(Orwell, 
1961:2). 
Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or 
awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in the bed
no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters inside 
your skull(Orwell, 1961:27). 

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In Oceania's currency coin there is Big Brother and his warnings, not only 
that, Big Brother and his warnings is everywhere, on stamps, on the covers of 
books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet. There 
have been always eyes overseeing the actions of the Oceania people. 
He took a twenty-five-cent piece out of his pocket. There, too, in tiny clear 
lettering, the same slogans were inscribed, and on the other face of the coin 
the eyes pursued you. On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on 
banners, on posters, and on the wrapping of a cigarette packet
everywhere(Orwell, 1961:27). 
Every citizen, or at least every citizen important enough to be worth 
watching, could be kept for twenty-four hours a day under the eyes of the 
police and in the sound of official propaganda, with all other channels of 
communication closed. The possibility of enforcing not only complete 
obedience to the will of the State, but complete uniformity of opinion on all 
subjects,... (Orwell, 1961:206). 
Public oversight is carried out by the Party through several police patrols 
and Thought police. Thought policeis the most frightening and moving police to 
capture and tap into the human minds that conflict with the party's power, thinking 
of the evil act against Big Brother is a crime referred to as a Thoughtcrime. 
It was the police patrol, snooping into people‘s windows. The patrol did not 
matter, however. Only the Thought Police mattered (Orwell, 1961:2). 
How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any 
individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched 
everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire 
whenever they wanted you. You had to live did live, from habit that 
become instinct in the assumption that every sound you made was 
overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized(Orwell, 
1961:3). 
Thought police more often oversee party members, both core members and 
out-party members, but before Thought policefindThoughtcrime, the telescreenis 

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one of the most sophisticated detection devices of one's movements and with the 
telescreen some Oceania people are limited to express their dislike. They have not 
free Expressed their thinking because of the telescreen in certain places, 
telescreen always finds in the homes of Party workers to supervise every Party 
worker from the crime of mind. After the telescreenfinds evidence of a crime of 
thought by Party members then the thought police will come to arrest you at night 
and the thought criminals will be evaporated and forgotten. 
Whichever way you turned, the telescreen faced you(Orwell, 1961:110). 
The telescreen was giving forth an ear-splitting whistle which continued on 
the same note for thirty seconds. It was nought seven-fifteen, getting-up 
time for office workers(Orwell, 1961:31). 
It was always night the arrest invariably happened at night. The sudden jerk 
out of sleep, the rough hand shaking your shoulder, the lights glaring in your 
eyes, the ring of hard faces round the bed (Orwell, 1961:19). 
In the vast majority of cases there was no trial, no report of the arrest. 
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was 
removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done 
was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You 
were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word (Orwell, 
1961:19). 
Or perhaps what was likeliest of all the thing had simply happened because 
purges and vaporizations were a necessary part of the mechanics of 
government. The only clue lay in the words ―refs unperson‖,... (Orwell, 
1961:45). 
The trial of the Thoughtcrimesis done by the Ministry of Love. A place 
where there is no darkness, a place where one has not distinguished between day 
and night, a place where prisoners will wonder about time. 
It was the place with no darkness: he saw now why O‘Brien had seemed to 
recognize the allusion. In the Ministry of Love there were no windows. His 

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cell might be at the heart of the building, or against its outer wall; it might 
be ten floors below ground, or thirty above it(Orwell, 1961:229). 
The court process is differentiated between Party workers and ordinary 
people. No one has known what exactly happened in theMinistry of Love. 
One did know what happened inside the Ministry of Love, but it was 
possible to guess: tortures, drugs, delicate instruments that registered your 
nervous reactions, gradual wearing-down by sleeplessness and solitude and 
persistent questioning(Orwell, 1961:167). 
..., but still noticing the astonishing difference in demeanour between the