SUMMARY documents such as newspapers considering the Party’s wishes.

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Last updated: December 2, 2019

SUMMARY AND GENERAL V?EW OF 1984Winston Smith lives in a dystopic country.The Party leaded by Big Brother governs Oceania. He works for Records Departmentof the Ministry of Truth. He rewrites documents such as newspapers consideringthe Party’s wishes.

 Winston starts to keep a diary. Hethinks that a Party member whose name is O’Brien may be taking place in asecret resistance group called the Brotherhood.He starts to have a secret sexualrelationship with a woman named Julia. They start to meet in a rented room.

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Ownerof the room is secretly a member of the Thought Police. Then, O’Brien invitesthem to the Brotherhood.Then they get caught by a hiddencamera in their room. Winston and Julia gets arrested for their actions and cross-questioned.O’Brien turns out to be a loyal Party member and he tortures Winston in the Ministryof Love till he weakens and goes back on Julia. Instead of being killedimmediately, they are brainwashed. At the end, Winston turns out to be a partof the system.

Although there is love in the depths of his heart, it iscompletely erased from the mind. After his release, Winston starts to love BigBrother.The novel is accused of being againstsocialism. Orwell, opposed to this: “I did not mean an attack on socialismor on the British Workers’ Party, but I touched upon partial disruptions incommunism and fascism, and the fact that the story of the book takes place inEngland is to emphasize that English- speaking races are not superior to theothers and oppressive regimes can win a victory in any place as long as theyare not resisted.” The novel written in 1948, a dystopiafor 1984 and is a critique of a totalitarian regime. The slogan “big brotheris watching you” that it puts forth has not lost much interest. In thenovel, the world is made up of only 3 great states and there is a pressure thatarises from the fact that these states are in constant battle with each other.

IDEOLOGIES, IDEAS AND GENERALSITUATION IN THE NOVEL ü The book is a dystopia. Theauthor builds a utopian world to destroy. It is an undesirable system desirednot to come true and a pit that humanity should not roll. ü There are a few similaritiesbetween 1984’s Oceania and Stalin’s regime. Like Stalin, the Oceaniangovernment adopts features of fascist and communist authoritarianism. One ofthem glorifies the sagacity of the leader, and the other glorifies the impeccabilityof the Party. Big Brother is treated as a wise and an idol leader. In addition,some points of the Oceanian system, such as and the forced labor camps and theThree-Year Plans appear to be hidden references to Stalin’s features.

Moreover,both regimes consistently denigrate their enemies, as the Party and Big Brotherdo in 1984, via daily mass propaganda, Two Minutes Hate and Hate Week and It iseven suggested that Big Brother, with his dark hair and heavy mustache, isinspired by Stalin’s face.  ü The official ideology isBritish Socialism, and the party without any opposition to the administration,that is, the party with absolute dominion, takes its name from this ideology(in the name of INGSOC). ü There are no ideologicaldifferences among the three great states Oceania, Eurasia and East Asia, all ofwhich have the same world view and the same system. This worldview and systemare defined as “oligarchic collectivism”. The dominant class ofoligarchic collectivism is the environment of the new aristocrats who seizepower after the capitalist class has been destroyed by the lower and middleclasses. This environment tyrannizes the proletarians, which constituteeighty-five percent of the country’s population.

It also uses the peoples ofthe buffer zones, which are not even citizens, as slaves.  ü The author establishes thereality of his novel on some principles. The future of mankind is to live undera constant pressure; equality, freedom and peace are dream; exploitation, war,repression and inequality will last forever; this constant pressure patternwill be established after the fall of the capitalist class. It is impossible toresist this order of repression as people will always betray each other;proletarians and colonial peoples can never become self-aware and opposeexploitation and oppression. ü In 1984, Old-Language has beenabandoned and a New-Language is adapted. It is aimed at getting people to betied up with the past and making them more controllable with these tricks.

Ithas been desired that people narrow their vocabulary, speak with less words,and be left stuck in their thought by making them faithful to the Great Brother’sregime. The reprogramming of people’s memories, the rewriting of the history bythe Oceania Real Ministry; reveals how important the communities’ ties with thepast are. Every despotic and totalitarian regime will define the history,language and geography in a way that is not related to the past. ü There are four ministries suchas Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), Ministry of Peace(Minipax), Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty), Ministry of Love (Miniluv).  ü Minitrue’s aim is to rewritethe past. In order for the state propaganda’s being effective and anything thatcan show that party is wrong; old newspapers, films, photographs arerearranged. Old information is completely destroyed and new and editedinformation is added.

 ü Minipax’s aim is to fight. Thepresence of the ministry is crucial in terms of the continuity of the state.For this reason, Oceania is at war with one of the other two states. Theconstant warfare is a perfect tool for public propaganda. From the publictele-screens, the public has been given the information that wars have alwaysbeen gained.  ü Miniplenty is responsible forthe economy. It is responsible for providing the public with access to food,utensils and goods.

They produce food and goods of the kind that is always be cheapand disgusting. So people will always be poor and hungry. Because managing poorpeople is easier than richer ones. People are never allowed to make directproduction. ü Miniluv is the most terribleof all ministries.

There is no glass in the building, and it is filled withbarbed wire, steel doors, concealed machine guns and black uniformed police. Thereis Room 101 in the building, which is the biggest nightmare of every citizen.  ü The public is divided intothree social classes; the members of the Internal and External Party, and theproletarians. The members of the Inner Party, which make up 2% of thepopulation, govern the state, make laws, and make important decisions together.

They live in beautiful homes and have servant and quality food.  The members of the External Party live like amiddle class civil servant and have no right to say anything. They are obligedto implement state policies.

There are two bad habits the party has allowedthem to do: drink Victory Cigarettes and Victory Gin. Everything else isforbidden. Marriages are not found right. The proletarian is a poor workingclass that makes up 85% of the population. According to the party, it is thelowest segment of the people. The party has left the proletariat alone.

Theyare not able to rebel. According to the ideology of the state; “Theproletarians and the animals are free.” Indeed it is.

They live in greatpoverty without realizing anything. To sum up, in general, the bookemphasizes that a single human model exists and that the current administrationcan maintain its existence as a great power by erasing the history and memoryof the people. We may think that this work is a fiction, but it is alsonecessary to question the similarities we have seen with the present world, andwhether we live in a dystopic system or not. Orwell describes a world where hespeaks of a society sought to be deprived of individual and social memory sothat reality can be kept under control. Undoubtedly, such efforts are similarto the breaking up of people from their real history through the formal historylessons of today’s nation-states and official history institutions and schoolcurricula, through the breaking of formal language institutions and officiallanguage trainings and their own peoples into consciousness and memory fromtheir mother tongue.                                                                           ZEYNEP ?EYMA MASCA, 20140210033,ÇEV?R?B?L?M

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