Which slogan was the most significant in the story?
I believe the slogan, "war
is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength" played such a significant role in the story. Propaganda is used many times to emphasize the importance it portrays. Throughout the book, you can see this slogan brought up over and over again. The whole purpose is for the government to control the people. They hate rebellion, and even the slightest bit of thinking can get you taken away from the thought police. I realized that this is a form of double speech. Which we went over in class, It's like saying one thing but meaning a whole other thing. I found the picture above to be so accurate to what was happening in-the book. In the first one it shows how the party was telling us what to believe and not to believe. The 2nd block is saying, how they are going to give us "freedom" but still watch our every move. In today's society that's like they were a parent who doesn't trust their child, so they keep watching them. But by doing that, they just broke the trust relationship between them. In Oceania, they were always in war, so the 3rd block shows how they are holding missile but demanding "peace". They totally contradict each other. Which quote from the book stood out to you more?
The quote that stood out most to me was "Freedom is Slavery" that one stood out to me because its like its saying if you want freedom it will lead to you failing. Also I felt like if the people were free it would mean that the government would no longer have power over the people so by telling they that freedom is slavery its discouraging the people to want freedom.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Krysta because I never really understood the "freedom is slavery" quote. To me they all seem like slaves now because they don't have any thoughts or feelings of their own. They just live to work. They don't even really live they just exist. So, this quote is kinda contradicting. Maybe the government just says " Freedom is Slavery" to scare the people? Scare them saying this unknown idea of freedom is bad. I also found it interesting that they used the word ignorance, war, and slavery. Because they refrain from using "strong" or " powerful" words but I actually think it's just to scare the people into succumbing to their authority.
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