Post by Anna-Lotta on May 13, 2016 17:25:20 GMT
Question#12: The quote actually describes the whole system in Oceania. "Who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past" means that things that happened in the past have influence on the future. For example a war changes the environment and not only that it changes peoples hearts and minds. Oceania was created because of the Revolution with the purpose that something like that never happens again. The second part of the quote means that the government does not only control the present they also control the past because they have a department with the job to manipulate articles and records to make sure they always match what the Party says.
Question#7: In my opinion we are Proles and Party Memebers. I think that the government is trying to make us believe that we are Proles and that we have freedom and the ability to make choices just like the Proles in the book believe they do something illegal when they buy Porn but it is something created by the government to make them feel free and keep them under control. In reality we are all Party Memenbers. We are taught what the government believes and we don't even realize it.
Question#7: In my opinion we are Proles and Party Memebers. I think that the government is trying to make us believe that we are Proles and that we have freedom and the ability to make choices just like the Proles in the book believe they do something illegal when they buy Porn but it is something created by the government to make them feel free and keep them under control. In reality we are all Party Memenbers. We are taught what the government believes and we don't even realize it.
