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3.2 Data Collecting Procedure
After reading the novel, the writer underlines the important words, sentences, or paragraph related to dictatorship such as the information about the characteristic of
the Big Brother as leader party and head of government in the novel. Not only the novel, but also supported data from the book, thesis, article that related with the topic
need to be underline. Some data from the internet are also used as the supporting references that related to good and evil of human behaviour as the subject matter of
this thesis. When all the data and information that related to the topic of this thesis are collected, then the data will be selected and used in the process of finishing this
thesis.
3.3 Data Selecting Procedure
All information that has been collected is being selected and only the very significant data are used in the process of doing this thesis. This selection is done
based on how significant the data in relation with the dictatorship.
3.4 Data Analysing Procedure
After selecting the data, the writer needs to classify it first, which one is related to dictatorship. After classifying the data, an analyzing and interpretation can be started
by using descriptive qualitative method. After analyzing and interpreting the data, finally the writer can draw the conclusion for this thesis.
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CHAPTER IV ANALISYS AND FINDING
In this thesis the writer would like to ana lyze about dictatorship in George Orwell’s
Nineteen eighty-four. Nineteen Eighty-Four tells about a world where the rules of Big Brother applies to everything and dictates everything. He is a dictator. A world
where war was peace, freedom was slavery, and ignorance was strength. A world that’s you will be watched 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. A world where there was
no place for freedom to think, to act, and to speak. A world which humanity was lost. George Orwell used the point of view of the main character. He is Winston Smith
and his age was 30. Winston worked in the The Ministry of Truth as one employee in the Record Department. Every day his duty was to alter the truth, to erase the past,
and created the new present. Simply did by Smith are changing the contents of the speeches, magazines, newspapers and other archival solely for the benefit of the
ruling party. The story of novel is an extreme example of the problems that’s we must face in the
real world, a critique of a totalitarian government. From W inston’s point of view
brings us to recognize the system was working in Oceania, named Ingsoc English Socialism, led by Big Brother as the supreme leader of the party. Populations of
Oceania itself was divided into three groups, named the Inner party members were only about 2 of the all population, then lower the party members, and the Proles
that covered about 85 of the total.
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– Four, the world was divided into 4: Oceania, Eurasia, East Asia, three disputed areas of the country. Oceania was the largest; territory included
the United Kingdom, America and islands in the Pacific Ocean. Eurasia included Russia and all of Europe. Partly of East Asia is throughout Asia except Russia, south
Asia and the bottom of Southeast Asia. Regional in disputes are an area with four boundary points of the city, one in Hong Kong, one in the northern tip of Australia
Darwin, two in Africa Morocco and the Congo. Indonesia included in this disputed land. Indonesias own name is also mentioned in the novel. Only once and
called the Indonesian archipelago. The data were fitted with the characteristic of each region.
All of the disputed territories contain valuable minerals, and some of them yield important vegetable products such as rubber which in
colder climates it is necessary to synthesize by comparatively expensive methods. But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of
cheap labour. Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian
Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies. The inhabitants of these
areas, reduced more or less openly to the status of slaves, pass continually from conqueror to conqueror, and are expended like so
much coal or oil in the race to turn out more armaments, to capture more territory, to control more labour power, to turn out more
armaments, to capture more territory, and so on indefinitely. Orwell, 1948: 187
The government under the reign of Big Brother has two parties they were Outer and Inner Party. Outer party consisted of people from the general people were recruited
as qualification to carry out administration tasks. Inner party was core people administration directly related to the instruction of the Big Brother. People in outside
party were called as The Proles, abbreviation of proletarians.
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with Telescreen, which can capture gestures and voices, installed at each corner of the house, offices and streets. The giant Telescreen in every citizen’s room make a
stream sound of propaganda, designed to make the failures and shortcomings of the Party appear to be triumphant successes. Telescreens also monitor behavior
everywhere they go. They couldn’t show doubted or questioned signs, especially against the principles of the Party, if they wouldn’t want deal to Thought Police. By
means of Telescreens and hidden microphones across the city, the Party is able to monitor its members almost all of the time. Additionally, the Party did complicated
mechanisms to control large-scale on economic production and sources of information. They have scary machines to inflict torture for people who are
considered enemies. All members of the party were already accustomed to accept whatever was said by the leader without question, even though it was contrary to
what has been said before, or even reality. This was called doublethink, one of the principles that must be accepted without asked. The point is party was always right.
Unlike the members of the party, The Proles did not bound with these rules. Their settlements were free from Telescreen. They also did not much communicate with
party members. This was one thing that makes Winston believed that the change can only happen in hands of The Proles. However, it seems The Proles though unaware
of what was actually happening in their world. They were only preoccupied by the small things in the world they were already falling apart.
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
Orwell, 1948: 214
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have rebelled they cannot become conscious. Orwell, 1948: 70
To be good citizens, who obey the rules of the Party, is a must. But, do not get too good, do not get too smart, do not seem to know and understand or cheerful or
different, might you be evaporated, not only killed physically, and your tracks will also be omitted from history. There will be no one who ever knew or remember you.
Government’s slogan:
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU Orwell, 1948: chapter I
4.1 The Characteristics of Dictatorship in The Nineteen Eighty-Four
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