Controlling the Past

One of the methods of Control in the party is changing events in the past and telling people that Big Brother did all of this stuff that he really didn't do. For example, Big Brother is said to have invented the airplane at a time later then when it was really invented. Big Brother does this through the Ministry of Truth, which is really a Ministry of Lies. If they can control who did what in the past and make people believe a lie, then they can make people believe just about anything that they want them to believe therefore giving them control of the people. Another way they can control history is through Newspeak, because the less words the people in the party have to use, the less opinions they can come up with. And of course Big Brother limits this by not even letting them write down or think of heretical things. If they do, then they simply disappear from the records, and the interesting thing is that they can make people up at random. This means that you could be taught that someone who never existed did this great thing in Newspeak, and it’s all a lie. This is effective, because the people make themselves think that this is all true, because they know if they think any different that they will be taken away. This method of changing history is so effective because they are making people believe what they are told whether it is a true or not.