1984: The Control Of Reality For Control Of The Masses

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Term Paper Title	1984: The Control Of Reality For Control Of The Masses
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1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses

1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses

        3 KEY POINTS:

        1. The Party Controls History
        2. The Party Controls the Conditions of Human Psychology
        3. The Party Controls god.

        How The Party Controls Reality:

        How does the party controls history?
        How does it affect the present?
        How does scarcity affect human psychology?
        What role does Big Brother play?

        Outline:

Introduction:

State Topics:   The Party Controls Reality to control the people
                It controls History, Psychology and god.

Paragraph 1:  History:  Explain Revisionism
                        Its Process
                         How it affects the present

Paragraph 2: Psychology:  Artificial Scarcity:  Affects human behavior
                          Maslow Theory of Human behavior

Paragraph 3:  God:  Big Brother has taken the place of God:  Omnipotent and
                    Omniscient, and under the control of the party

        Among the many themes express in the novel 1984 by George Orwell the
most interesting and frightening is the concept of creating an alternative
reality to control a mass population.  The Inner Party stays in power by shaping
the thoughts and opinions of the masses and it does this by creating a reality
where everything suits whatever it is the party needs to be believed.  This is
accomplished in three ways.  The first is revisionism or the act of changing
facts such as history so that the Party is always made to look good and mobilize
popular opinion against its enemies.  The second way the party creates an
artificial reality is through artificial scarcity.  There is no need for the
constant warfare  but if the need no longer existed for the construction of the
tools of war that productivity would instead be put towards the manufacture of
goods which could actually raise the standard of living.  Finally the Inner
Party controls the masses by creating an all powerful omnipotent being whom they
contr ol and can say or order whatever it is they need.

     Much of the success in creating the Parties artificial reality and thus
controlling the people was due to the Parties ability to control history through
a process called revisionism. This work is done in the Ministry of Truth, in the
Records section, were Winston is engaged. Daily, people like Winston, destroy
old documents and create new ones to cover policy chan...

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