1984+Essay



Dear Boethius, My name is Stefan Bogunovic and I am writing this because I must inform you that you were wrong. They can get in your mind, they can alter your thoughts, and they can change you forever!

It's the parties doings, they are the ones responsible for this madness. The year is 1984, I think. Honestly, no one is really sure of the year. I live in a world where the truth is twisted into lies. Myth becomes reality, but no one realizes it. But I do, because I remember that just 4 years ago, we were at war with Eastasia. But today, with no public announcements of any kind, the Party insisted we were at war with Eurasia! People just accept it as truth, without a mement of doubt in their minds.

The Party must be stopped! But no one cares what is false and what isn't. They just, accept it. It is as if the Party is altering their thoughts of what is happening in reality. Their slogan is, "Who ever controls the past, controls the future. Whoever controls the present, controls the past." That is their key to power: control. They capture any who dare commit a "thought crime" and carry them away, to the Ministary of Love. A tall building guarded by soldiers in machinegun nests and electrified fences (I apoligize if you lack the understanding of these things). Let's say they are, "fast firing bows and arrows and poisoned walls". Yes, frightening indeed.

No one is quite sure what they do to you in there, but I do know what happens next. They are sent away either to a labor camp, or back into society, spending months, years even, until they are relieved with an "arrow" in the back of the head. A swift, silent death, leaving you no chance to defend yourself. This sort of thing happens on a daily basis. People simply, dissapear. We call it being "vaporized". My brother was vaporized when I was four years old, my uncle when I was 10. Sooner or later, I will be vaporized. "Thought crime IS death." They control your thoughts through torture and impurity.

Do you see why this is a promblem? Eventually, they will wipe out the last of us who still believe in freedom. They are destroying our language so we lose the meaning of being free. "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength." That is what they believe, but not what we must believe. We must be strong, we must bring down the Party!