In 1984, people like
Winston rectify old records that have been proven false, or in other words the
government does not agree with them.
Winston
lives in a dystopia where every citizen is watched constantly by the government of Big
Brother, children spy on their parents, and thinking is a crime. The country of Oceana
is perpetually at war with Eurasia.
Winston works for the
Records Department, which is a department of the Ministry of Truth. His job is to
rectify records so that they match what the government wants them to
say.
Today’s
issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the
forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. Winston’s job was to rectify the
original figures by making them agree with the later ones. (part 1, ch 4, p.
23)
Orwell shows us a world
where people have no freedoms, and the government says whatever it likes and does
whatever it likes. This is Orwell’s vision of the future, where we are watched
constantly by Big Brother Government. It is a world of doublethink and doublespeak,
where nothing that is said can be trusted. Let this story be a warning to us
all.
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