tc. is trying to warn the reader against letting any government get this powerful. He tells the reader this through Winston, "the last (thinking) man in Europe." Another motto of the Party is War is Peace. To make the people believe this, the government must be in continuous warfare, and this is also to keep the economy strong. Finally the third party slogan is Freedom is Slavery. The government has brainwashed the people by telling them individually they are mortal, they will die and not be remembered. But collectively as a group, they are immortal, therefore much stronger then an individual. People still die however, and all records of them ever existing are destroyed, in other words vaporized. This leads to another sign Orwell warns his readers about, and that is controlling the past. Consequently this is Winston's job. The Ministry of Truth has complete control of the past. They erase any record of history that would be dangerous toward their complete control over the people. Revisionism is another term used meaning changing of the past. Winston after having a dream tries to remember his childhood. As he remembers, no one had heard of big brother before the 1960s. But his job is to change history, and new history has been dated back to the 1930s with stories of Big Brother. Orwell again uses Winston to warn the reader not to let a government get too powerful and control the past. People living in Oceania in 1984 speak a different language then English, they speak newspeak. The government did this in order to have more power over the people. The Party invented this new language so that eventually English will not be used anymore, and then no one would be able to read anything written in English; such as, books, which are completely illegal, or old historical documents not changed. This was created to meat the needs of INGSOC, or English Socialism. When it eventually comes universal, in about 2050, nobody will be able to commit a thou...
