Brain Wash Policy The Party Rules

16 to nonexsistent persons.Rewrite it in full and submit your draft to higher authority before filing.” 1984,1949: p.44

3.5 Brain Wash Policy

The Party undermines family structure by inducting children into an organization called the Junior Spies, which brainwashes and encourages them to spy on their parents and report any instance of disloyalty to the Party. The Party also forces individuals to suppress their sexual desires, treating sex as merely a procreative duty whose end is the creation of new Party members. The Party then channels people’s pent-up frustration and emotion into intense, ferocious displays of hatred against the Party’s political enemies. Many of these enemies have been invented by the Party expressly for this purpose. With those children, 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. Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was 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. On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it. 1984,1949: p.24 Based on the quotation,the Party seeks to maintain power by severing private loyalties, replacing them with loyalty to the party. With children, the success of the Party’s plan is furthered in that the children serve as extra surveillance forces for the Party. 17

3.6 The Party Rules

The party makes the policy under the control of their own is to make people aware how great the party is. It also creates dependency for the government that the people must obey the government. There is no room or space to voice right of equality to work as what the people like. To say simply, party dictatorship implies its strength above all. Those who are against the government can be put into prison without trial. Law legitimacy is under the government hand. People must agree what the government has decided as the national policy. The phrase “Two plus two equals five” is a slogan used specifically in 1984 novel,as an example of an obviously false dogma one may be required to believe,similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in the novel.It is contrasted with the phrase “two plus two makes four”,the obvious by definition – but politically inexpedient-truth. The inner party interrogator of thought- criminals,O’Brien says of the mathematically false statement that control over physical reality is unimportant;so long as one controls one’s own perceptions to what the Party wills,then any conporeal act is possible,in accordance with the principles of doublethink “Sometimes they are five.Sometimes they are three.Sometimes they are all of them at once” “2+2=5” 1984,1949: p.290 Based on the quotation,in addition to manipulating their minds, the Party also controls the bodies of its subjects. The Party constantly watches for any sign of disloyalty, to the point that, as Winston observes, even a tiny facial twitch could lead to an arrest. A person’s own nervous system becomes his greatest 18 enemy. The Party forces its members to undergo mass morning exercises called the Physical Jerks, and then to work long, grueling days at government agencies, keeping people in a general state of exhaustion. Anyone who does manage to defy the Party is punished and “reeducated” through systematic and brutal torture. After being subjected to weeks of this intense treatment, Winston himself comes to the conclusion that nothing is more powerful than physical pain—no emotional loyalty or moral conviction can overcome it. By conditioning the minds of their victims with physical torture, the Party is able to control reality, convincing its subjects that 2 + 2 = 5. “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows.” . “1984,1949: p.2. In terms of its life the citizens are not free because every movement of them is set by the government. This is evident from the above quotation that says the helicopter is always watching to every window of the house the residents. A statement showing such things are also present in the following quotation: “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” . “1984,1949: p.2. 19 Beside it the life of citizens was made to suffer by the system of slavery and ignorance. This is consistent with the slogan adopted by the government the following: “WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” . “1984,1949: p.4. Tricking against civilians is increasingly evident on laws that govern about writing. There explained that the activity of writing is indeed not a thing is illegal but people doing such activities will be executed which can be seen in the following quote: This was not illegal …that it would be punished by death,…” 1984,1949: p.6 Based on the quotation also described the structure of governance is divided into several departments such as the following : “The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs.” 1984,1949: p.4. Based on the quotation that described the names of every government sector along with their respective duties. However, there are tasks that I feel strange because The Ministry of Peace carrying out its duties through the war. In addition to sharing the task of each government ministry also mengembar- heralded slogan to all aspects of life such as music and so on. 20 “The songs, the processions, the banners, the hiking, the drilling with dummy rifles, the yelling of slogans, the worship of Big Brother — it was all a sort of glorious game to them. All their ferocity was turned outwards, against the enemies of the State, against foreigners, traitors, saboteurs, thought-criminals” 1984,1949: p.24. Emmanuel Goldstein is an authority figure very impunity. Here we can see a very unfair law, in other words a law only applied to those whose poor citizen. “…,he was advocating freedom of speech, freedom of the Press, freedom of assembly, freedom of thought, he was crying hysterically that the revolution had been betrayed,…” . “1984,1949: p.12. In terms of society also explained that every individu holding individualism principle, they do not know the word friendship, this is illustrated by the following quote: “Perhaps ’friend’ was not exactly the right word. You did not have friends nowadays, you had comrades:” . “1984,1949: p.48. People are not even allowed to establish love, should not enjoy sex, just as love and sex to vent emotions. Emotions are, for the Party, should only be acted by hating enemies and adored the Big Brother.This is illustrated by the following quote: “The aim of the Party was not merely to prevent men and women from forming loyalties which it might not be able to control. Its real, undeclared purpose was to remove all pleasure from the sexual act. Not love so much as eroticism was the enemy, inside marriage as well as outside it. All marriages between Party members had to be approved by a committee appointed for the purpose, and – though the principle was never clearly stated – permission was always refused if the couple concerned gave the impression of being physically attracted to one another. The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema. This again was never put into plain words, but in an 21 indirect way it was rubbed into every Party member from childhood onwards. There were even organizations such as the Junior, Anti-Sex League, which advocated complete celibacy for both sexes. All children were to be begotten by artificial insemination artsem, it was called in Newspeak and brought up in public institutions. This, Winston was aware, was not meant altogether seriously, but somehow it fitted in with the general ideology of the Party. The Party was trying to kill the sex instinct, or, if it could not be killed, then to distort it and dirty it. He did not know why this was so, but it seemed natural that it should be so. And as far as the women were concerned, the Partys efforts were largely successful.” 1984,1949: p.65

3.7 Control of Information and History