- "If all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed ... Then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'" (p. 34)
The party slogan is quite frightening, because if one breaks it down into detail, there is absolutely no truth in this dystopian society. The Party has the ability to oversee, rewrite, and manipulate documents of the past, which allows justification for what is happening in the present. Orwell illustrates the vulnerability of the citizens of Oceania because each are not allowed to keep any of their personal records. Without individual memories, gradually their it will fade, eventually leading them to easily accept anything the Party tells them.
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