Brave New World

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he same. He had committed-would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper-the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thought crime, they called it." They even had slogans written "Freedom is Slavery". Citizens were afraid to express themselves completely to other human beings. Winston’s problem wasn’t so much that he couldn’t express himself, but that there was no one for him to fully interact with. In that society the only emotions you were able to have, was the feeling of love towards Big Brother and the feeling of hate towards the enemy. In Oceania the enemy was Emmanuel Goldstein, "Enemy of the People" is what they called him. He was the main goal of the Two Minutes Hate."The programmes of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure." This was a practical application of mind control. One last slogan that the Inner Party went by, was "Ignorance is Strength". This unabled the citizens to question or learn anything, they had to remain ignorant of every detail.The right to learn about their past or question it was prohibited. Since the Records Department was constantly altering history, it was almost impossible to get a hold of any form of pap...