Examples Of Propaganda In 1984

1984 is a novel which explores the life of a man living in a totalitarian society run by the Party (Big Brother). The Party is in control of every aspect of one’s life and it uses many devices to supervise and manipulate the citizens of Oceania. A big part of said devices is made up of technology. It is used to control people’s freedom to think and exist through use of propaganda, surveillance over the citizens, and to spread false information to control.
Propaganda in 1984 was mostly deployed through technology in order to make the citizens obedient and to ascertain Big Brother’s control. An example of that is seen when Winston says “Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations—that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.”. Other

They were placed all across Oceania and spied on people 24 hours every day. There was no privacy or freedom since the telescreens could not be turned-off. There was only one thing that the telescreens weren’t capable of in Winston’s words “They (the telescreens) could spy upon you night and day, but if you kept your head, you could still outwit them. With all their cleverness, they had never mastered the secret of finding out what another human being was thinking.”. The telescreens were the most efficient out of all the spying devices, however, they weren’t the only ones. In places where a telescreen could not be placed (such as forest, fields, etc.) the Party had hidden microphones that recorded every sound made in that place. So even when you could not be watched you could always be heard. For instance, when Julia and Winston meet in the country they don’t speak until they’re in the closed-off clearing in case there are hidden