The start of Ingsoc's reach over the population of Oceania begins by taking cnotrol of their average, everyday lives. The use of various …show more content…
The State restrain its populace through the development of Newspeak, a simplified version of English. Newspeak is aimed to reduce the amount of though aimed at speaking and reinforcing the dominance of the party. Every new addition removes more parts of the English dictionary. Oceania also controls the thoughts of every member of society and their existence. The party can "vaporize", or remove from existence, anyone they wish through the Ministry of Love. "[T]he terrible reality in which total Party control extends to the innermost psyche of a person, rendering him or her a former person. (Dilworth), goes to show how people are forced to lose their humanity and become "unpersons" or non-existence. Modern examples can be compared to the forced disappearance of enemies of the state, Al-Qaeda leaders, ISIS leaders, and other prominent figures of radical terrorist organizations. Individuals that had a high place in Oceania that later commit a crime that cannot go unseen are usually removed from any known place by the Ministry of Truth. Most party members who remember these people washed from existence usually follow its idea of "Doublethink". Double think is belief in two things that contradict each other as fact. In 1984 when Winston questions the existence of two former party members, O'Brien produces a picture of the cover up before throwing it away in a memory hole. Then he explains how he has no knowledge of the picture nor his actions of throwing it away. The party not only controls the minds of the people, but holds absolute power over the