The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant; we weaker the opposition, the 
tighter the despotism. Goldstein and his heresies will life forever. Every 
day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat 
upon—and yet they will always survive (Orwell, 1961:268). 

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People's hatred of Goldstein (Brotherhood leader) will never fade, as each 
commemorates Two Minutes Hate, Goldstein has always been the main villain 
who is alive somewhere and continues to raise members for Big Brother. 
Somewhere or other he was still alive and hatching his conspiracies: perhaps 
somewhere beyond the sea, under the protection of his foreign paymasters: 
perhaps even so it was occasionally rumored in some hiding place in 
Oceania itself. 
He was abusing Big Brother, he was denouncing the dictatorship of the 
Party, he was demanding the immediate conclusion of peace with Eurasia, 
he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of 
assembly, freedom of thought, (Orwell, 1961:12). 
The discontents produced by his bare, unsatisfying life are deliberately 
turned outwards and dissipated by such devices as the Two Minutes Hate, 
and the speculation which might possibly induce a skeptical or rebellious 
attitude are killed in advance by his early acquired inner discipline (Orwell, 
1961:211-212). 
The Two Minutes Hate program ran for 30 seconds with a public 
propaganda moderator is screaming together in cursing Goldstein and shouting 
hysterical revolution barks. 
Before the Hate had proceeded for thirty second, uncontrollable 
exclamations of rage were breaking out from half the people in the room. 
The self-satisfied sheeplike face on the screen, and the terrifying power of 
the Eurasian behind it, were too much to be borne (Orwell, 1961: 13). 
..... Besides, the sight or even the thought of Goldstein produced fear and 
anger automatically. He was an object of hatred more constant than either 
Eurasia or Eastasia, since when Oceania was war with one of these powers 
it was generally at peace with the other (Orwell, 1961:13). 
.... He was crying hysterically that the Revolution had been betrayed and all 
this in rapid polysyllabic speech which was a sort of parody of the habitual 
style of the orators of the Party, and even contained Newspeak words: more 
Newspeak words, indeed, than any Party member would normally use in 
real life (Orwell, 1961:13). 
His voice, made metallic by the amplifiers, boomed forth and endless 
catalogue of atrocities, massacres, deportations, lootings, raping, torture of 

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prisoners, bombing of civilians, lying propaganda, unjust aggressions, 
broken treaties. It was almost impossible to listen to him without being first 
convinced and then maddened. At every few moments the fury at the crowd 
boiled over and the voice of the speaker was drowned by a wild beastlike 
roaring that rose uncontrollably from thousands of throats. The most savage 
yells of all came from the schoolchildren (Orwell, 1961:180-181). 
Despite the uncertainty of Oceania's war do against Eastasia or Eurasia, the 
state of society in the Party, the overwhelming resentment of Goldstein without 
knowing Goldstein, the injustice of proliferation, the limitations of Party workers, 
the effects of the totalitarian system of government in the 1984 novel, little child. 
Oceania was at war with Eastasia! 
The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all 
wrong! 
It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been working! (Orwell, 
1961:181). 
Oceania was war with Eastasia: Oceania had always been at war with 
Eastasia. A large part of the political literature of five years was now 
completely obsolete. Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, 
pamphlets, film, soundtracks, photographs all had to be rectified at 
lightning speed (Orwell, 1961:182). 
People never know about how and with whom Oceania is fighting with 
Eastasia or Eurasia. People don‘t not allowedtoknow more about Eurasia and 
Eastasia. The Party forbids the public to learn the language of the two countries. 
War prisoners apart, the average citizen of Oceania never sets eyes on a 
citizen of either Eurasia or Eastasia, and he is forbidden the knowledge of 
foreign languages. If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would 
discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he 
has been told about them is lies (Orwell, 1961:196). 

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The Party instilled a sense of nationalism of Oceania children with a deep 
love for Big Brother. A child is appointed a country hero when the child finds a
villain of thought and a Party traitor. 
―You‘re a traitor!‖ yelled the boy. ―You‘re a thought-criminal! You‘re a 
Eurasian spy! I‘ll shoot you, I‘ll vaporize you, I‘ll send you to the salt 
mines!‘‘ (Orwell, 1961:23). 
And with good reason, for hardly a week passed in which the Times did not 
carry a paragraph describing how some eavesdropping little sneak ―child 
hero‖ was the phrase generally used overheard some compromising remark 
and denounced his parents to the Thought Police (Orwell, 1961:24-25). 
Moreover, the hanging of country criminals is considered an interesting 
spectacle of Oceania children. Early on the Party influenced the way children 
think, so the actions of Oceania children were in line with the wishes of the Party. 
The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors 
and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were 
afterwards executed, were special showpieces not occurring oftener than 
once in a couple of years (Orwell, 1961:44). 
Some Eurasian prisoners, guilty of war crimes, were to be hanged in the 
Park that evening, Winston remembered. This happened about once a 
month, and was a popular spectacle. Children always clamored to be taken 
to see it(Orwell, 1961:23). 
―They do get noisy, ―she said. ― They‘re disappointed because they couldn‘t 
go to see the hanging, that‘s what it is. I‘m too busy to take them, and Tom 
won‘t be back from work in time.‖
―Why can‘t we go and see the hanging?‖ roared the boy in his huge voice. 
―Want to see the hanging! Want to see the hanging!‖ chanted the little girl, 
still capering round(Orwell, 1961:23).
The hatred of children did against country criminals is also mentioned by 
Goldstein in his book that said it is natural in Oceania. 

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....., and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, and reprisals 
against prisoners, which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are 
looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one‘s own side 
and not by the enemy, meritorious(Orwell, 1961:186). 
Nowadays, in Oceania, the great enemy of every parent is his own son, the 
one most vulnerable to reporting the family crime of the child of the family. 
Parents will feel terrorized by their own children, the Party teaches parents to love 
their children, but instead the child is taught to report the crime of his parents to 
against the Party. 
Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What is the worst of all was 
that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically 
turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no 
tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party(Orwell, 
1961:24). 
He thought, that wretched woman must lead a life of terror. Another year, 
two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of 
unorthodoxy (Orwell, 1961:24). 
All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, 
against the enemies foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals. It was 
almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children 
(Orwell, 1961:24). 
Thus, in Oceania there are so many spies from schoolchildren. 
The square was packed with several thousand people, including a book of 
about a thousand schoolchildren in the uniform of the spies. On a scarlet 
draped platform an orator of the Inner Party,.... (Orwell, 1961:180). 
Parents who thoughtorthodox and always thought clearly to the Party will 
feel proud when his son became a party spy to become a country hero. 

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―Ah, well what I mean to say, shows the right spirit, doesn‘t it? 
Mischievous little beggars they are, both of them, but talk about keenness! 
All they think about is the Spies, and the war, of course (Orwell, 1961:57). 
D‘you know what that little girl of mine did last Saturday, when her troop 
was on a hike out Berkhampstead way? She got two other girls to go with 
her, slipped off from the hike, and spent the whole afternoon following a 
strange man. They kept on his tail for two hours, right through the woods, 
and then, when they got into Amersham, handed him over to the 
patrols‖(Orwell, 1961:57). 
For orthodox thinking is the Party's demand for Party workers. 
A Party member is required to have not only the right opinions, but the right 
instincts......... If he is a person naturally orthodox (in Newspeak, a