The social criticism in george orwell'S 1984

Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life. Nevertheless, the few luxuries 
that he does enjoy his large, well-appointed flat, the better texture of his 
clothes, the better quality of his food and drink and tobacco, his two or three 
servants, his private motor-car or helicopter sets him in a different world 
from a member of the Outer Party, and the members of the Outer Party have 
a similar advantages in comparison with the submerged masses whom we 
call ―the proles‖(Orwell, 1961:191). 
It is precisely in the Inner Party that war hysteria and hatred of the enemy 
are strongest. In his capacity as an administrator, it is often necessary for a 
member of the Inner Party to know that this or that item of war news is 
untruthful, and he may often be aware that the entire war is spurious and is 
either not happening or is being waged for purposes quite other than the 
declared ones; but such knowledge is easily neutralized by the technique of 
doublethink (Orwell, 1961:192-193). 
Meanwhile, no Inner Party member wavers for an instant in his mystical 
belief that the war is real, and that it is bound to end victoriously, with 
Oceania the undisputed master of the entire world (Orwell, 1961:193). 
All members of the Inner Party believe in this coming conquest as an article 
of faith. It is to be achieved either by gradually acquiring more and more 
territory and so building up an overwhelming preponderance of power, or 
by the discovery of some new and unanswerable weapon (Orwell, 
1961:193). 
The Party's does hide truths in Goldstein's book above peel away the events 
in the Party's own power and the Party sought to destroy the Goldstein 
book,afterwards the Oceania people have no reason to fight the Party. 
Oceanic society rests ultimately on the belief that Big Brother is omnipotent 
and that the Party is infallible. But since in reality Big Brother is not 
omnipotent and the Party is not infallible, there is a need for an 
unwearyingly, moment-to-moment flexibility in the treatment of fact 
(Orwell, 1961:212). 
But by far the more important reason for the readjustment of the past is the 
need to safeguard the infallibility of the Party. It is not merely that speeches, 
statistics, and records of every kind must be constantly brought up to date in 
order to show that the predictions of that Party were in all cases 
right(Orwell, 1961:213). 

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Furthermore to the Party's restrained on Party workers themselves, through 
the telescreen of Party‘s lies are done at all times, the Big Brother virtues are 
continuously announced every time, exposed and fixed daily. The lies about the 
existence of artificial figures are still done by the Ministry of Truth. Newspapers 
and circulars are always reprinted for perfection of Party goals. 
There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to 
commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and 
death, he held up as an example worthy to be followed. Today he should 
commemorate Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of 
faked photographs would soon bring him into existence (Orwell, 1961:46). 
Comrade Ogilvy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the 
past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as 
authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar 
(Orwell, 1961:48). 
Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, 
every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and every building 
has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is 
continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing 
exists except and endless present in which the Party is always right (Orwell, 
1961:155). 
Even through telescreen information is also presented in a changing, just a 
few hours. But strangely enough, people know exactly the inconsistency of Party 
information, but they believed in what the telescreen delivered. 
If, for example, Eurasia or Eastasia (whichever it may be) is the enemy 
today, then that country must always have been the enemy, And if the facts 
say otherwise, then the facts must be altered. Thus history is continuously 
rewritten. This day-to-day falsification of the past, carried out by the 
Ministry of Truth, is as necessary to the stability of the regime as the work 
of repression and espionage carried out by the Ministry of Love (Orwell, 
1961:213). 
Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-hours? Yes, 
they swallowed it. Parsons swallowed it easily, with the stupidity of an 
animal. The eyeless creature at the other table swallowed fanatically, 
passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize 

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anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grams. 
Syme, too in some more complex way, involving doublethink Syme 
swallowed it(Orwell, 1961:58-59). 
There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely 
it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that 
Eastasia not Eurasia was the enemy (Orwell, 1961:180). 
Although no directive was ever issued, it was known that the chiefs of the 
Department intended that within one week no reference to the war with 
Eurasia, or the alliance with Eastasia, should remain in existence anywhere 
(Orwell, 1961:182). 
It is possible that some of the Oceania people want to protest to the Party, 
but helplessness and fear keep them mute and did do anything. 
.... Not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreen, but even to the 
ideals that the Party was trying to achieve (Orwell, 1961:73-74). 
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a 
feeling that you had been cheated of something that you had a right to. It 
was true that he had no memories of anything greatly different (Orwell, 
1961:59). 
In any time that he could accurately remember, there had never been quite 
enough to eat, one had never had socks or underclothes that were no full of 
holes, furniture had always been battered and rickety, rooms underheated, 
Tube trains crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-colored, tea a 
rarity, coffee fifty-tasting, cigarettes insufficient nothing cheap and 
plentiful except synthetic gin(Orwell, 1961:59). 
By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed 
everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no 
residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body 
of a bird (Orwell, 1961:156). 
With the Party's attempt to destroy the truth, and manipulated the news, it is 
an impossible for people find evidence of Party lies. 
It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary 
evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened(Orwell, 1961:183). 

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To limit the criticism of the Oceania community, the Partyabolishes 
education in Oceania. InOceania, people do not know the term "Science". All that 
is educated and connected with the community's wretchedness is annihilated by 
the Party. 
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to 
exist. In Newspeak there is no word for ―Science.‖ The empirical method of 
thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, 
is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. And even 
technological progress only happens when its products can in some way be 
used for the diminution of human liberty (Orwell, 1961:193). 
The scientist of today is either a mixture of psychologist and inquisitor, 
studying with extraordinary minuteness the meaning of facial expressions, 
gestures, and tones of voice, and testing the truth producting effects of 
drugs, shock therapy, hypnosis, and physical torture; or he is a chemist, 
physicist, or biologist concerned only with such branches of his special 
subject as are relevant to the taking of life (Orwell, 1961:193-194). 
Taken into consideration, the impact of the Party's totalitarian governance 
system in the state of society around Oceania appears to be the same before the 
time of war and beyond. 
The social atmosphere is that of a besieged city, where the possession of a 
lump of horseflesh makes the difference between wealth and poverty. And 
at the same time the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, 
makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, 
unavoidable condition of survival (Orwell, 1961:192). 
It is also clear that in Oceania the social and economic differences arenot so 
much considered by the people, the Party is in control of all things and living in 
affluence, while on the other hand, there is a proletary society preoccupied with 
Lottery, the spirit of work and power to support the Party. Human equality 

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issimply a transition of the Party to society. During the ruling party there will 
never be a human equality. 
...., it was no longer necessary for them to live at different social or 
economic levels. Therefore, from the point of view of the new groups who 
were on the point of seizing power, human equality was no longer an idea to 
be striven after, but a danger to be averted (Orwell, 1961:204).