"'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness,' O'Brien had said to him. He knew what it meant, or thought he knew. The place where there is no darkness was the imagined future, which one would never see, but which, by foreknowledge, one could mystically share in. But with the voice of the telescreen nagging at his ears he could not follow the train of thought further."(Orwell 87).
So far throughout the novel this dystopian setting has been established. Under a slogan all of the citizens of Oceana live.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
In this place they live under an extremely suppressed government ruled by a figurehead refereed to as "Big Brother." Different departments in this society take care of different tasks, their names, however, do not really reflect what they do, but actually the opposite. The ministry of love is actually a place where people who have been caught doing crimes go. The ministry of truth, where Winston works, changes what the media has said, to erase any mistakes or any proof to argue against changes the government makes. Lastly the ministry of plenty takes care of the economy which also includes rationing for people. People are not even alowed to think things against the government, and if there is any suspision that grows of them, they have a high chance of being arested for "Thought Crime." This passage shows that Winston, the protagonist, is planning on resisting his society, by talking with another person about this.
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