1984 Inner And Outer Party Analysis

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In the novel, 1984, the setting takes place in a city called Oceania. A man (Winston Smith who is the main character in the novel) lives in a world where no man neither woman can think or speak freely. The author, George Orwell, portrays these two classes (Inner and Outer parties) as to modern-government with absolute power. The Inner Party is the highest class within the society of Oceania. The Party is characterized as having many privileges and being very persistent on their “laws/orders”. Many of the Inner Party’s “laws” are towards Oceania’s society and other parties (Outer and Proles) such as not being able to write in a diary meaning writing freely (associates thing freely). This Party has many privileges such as the members within the party being able to turn off their telescreen, how Big Brother (the face of all people) watches all of the citizens in Oceania. Another privilege to the Inner Party is the members in the Party are able to get away with stuff being such are illegal. Ingsoc …show more content…
The Outer Party is characterized as the average class that do play a role within the society and having functionary’s that do most of the governments work through its Ministries (Peace, Plenty, Love, and Truth where Winston works). The Outer Party is under constant supervision from the Inner Party and Big Brother. The members of the party are subjective to create revolts against their leaders (Inner Party and Big Brother), thus having their leaders command them in a tight threshold and not having the Outer Party to be in frenzy. Many of the members live in rundown neighborhoods and pertain on rations. Moreover, Ingsoc (English-socialism) utters the same attitude towards the Outer Party, that there are no differences between the classes within Oceania. The Outer Party contains many intellectual members who although are able to over throw the Inner Party cannot due to the instilling of fear they Inner put on the