PERIOD 1 - CONTROL in 1984

Terror

Surveillance

Indoctrination

Revision of History

Scapegoating/Common Enemy

Propaganda

two minutes hate, Goldstein

use it to get people riled up; that leads to anger. Anger leads you to do things that you will regret later - easier to control. You stop thinking straight. Don't know right from wrong. Don't see other point of view.

vulnerable / scared of getting hurt. don't want to lose what you already have. turn to government for safety.

telescreens that constantly spew positive information about the Party - how BB has helped Oceania

as the people of Oceania are surrounded, they are sort of forced to believe it; confirmation bias - if everyone believes what the Party says, then Winston also feels the need to comply

example: When they were doing the rally and changed the enemy from Eur. to East. When the gov't changes or erases historical docs.

makes people easier to control bc you don't know what's real or what's fake, you don't know what to believe so therefore you just put your trust in the government

when they change history, and you think it's wrong, you don't want to say anything because if you think something is wrong people are going to think you're crazy or a traitor and then you stay quiet because you're afraid

you're controlled by other people/govt - for you to be/act a certain way

telescreen - watching and listening all the time

unsafe, you can't ever rest in peace - just go home and relax. the government is like the puppet master - you always perform what the government wants

Party makes people have anxiety: fear of death, fear of being forgotten. Pushes terror into people so they're scared to do anything

example: when W. thinks about what the police will do to him - torture

two minutes hate, telescreens putting only things Oceania wants the people to see

kind of connects to propaganda - what they teach the kids, to make them be an extra set of eyes for the government. increases their loyalty to the government.

if there's people who remember before the Party, then the children they're teaching about the Party will praise them so much; eventually they'll be the only voices, who teach the next generation

connects to surveillance - being watched increases their fear

connects to revision of history: when they revise history, it's easy to make the Party's image look better

connects to indoctrination because when you change history it changes what people know about the past and what they learn (generations get more and more removed from reality)

connects to propaganda - E.G. eurasian soldier being portrayed as a monster = way to instill fear

terror and surveillance are stronger together if you're constantly being watched, you have that constant fear - fear controls actions.

connects to propaganda - prop writes ideas into the minds of the people to keep govt in power; new ideas that they change also get run into their heads. Prop = short term, revised history = long term