“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”
Do these quote scare you? If your answer is in negative, then be ready to change your mind because these words epitomise the world’s deadliest totalitarian government. The first quote is the slogan of the party, the second one is the measure by which they control people and the third one is their idea of the style of governance.

Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, was an English author having profound knowledge in politics and is most famous for his satirical novel Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

Oceania is a future state where everything is controlled by a ruling totalitarian political party under the leadership of Big Brother. The party have three important ministries through which they function. The Ministry of Truth changes historical facts to portray the Big Brother and the party in a better light.
The Ministry of Love deals with punishing the people who are criminal according to the party. The Ministry of Peace deals with wars with other countries. Winston is a thought-criminal ( the biggest crime in Oceania is thinking ) and keeps his anti-government ideas in a secret diary.

1984 is a dystopian political, horror novel. The novel states the fears of an authoritarian government where every single person of the society believes in a single ideology and the language is deteriorated according to the benefits of the party. There is a three-chapter manifesto of a secret brotherhood in the book whose ideas are still relevant in the current political scenario. Orwell has brilliantly shown us the danger of dictatorship. 1984 is a must-read for all even if one doesn’t like this genre.