Dear+Boethius

Dear Boethius,

You Say “You cannot impose on a free mind, and you cannot move from its state of inner tranquility a mind at peace with itself and firmly founded on reason. You say that in the dark ages you could at least have free mind and still be happy, even when you body isn’t free, well you’re wrong. Here in this letter I will explain that in Oceania thing s have changed in the future.

hings have changed by a lot and will continue to change every year. You see our minds are not free, the party controls it. Big brothers control it. Big brother controls it. We have no freedom what so ever. You want to have a revolution? Well you can’t. How can you have it when no such word exists? In Oceania our language is newspeak. Newspeak lets the party destroy any word or useless words. For example the word good, why have great when we could just have doublegood? Why have super well when we could have doubleplusgood? They want us to be mere obediently mindless creatures, like it says on page 19,"War is peace,freedom is slavery,ignorance is stregnth." They want us to be ignorant and unconscious of what is going on.

Another way they control our minds is by splitting families apart. They keep us from bonding with or loving anyone exept for big brother. Sex for example. Most women are in the anti-sex league. They force women into thinking it is dirty. Even if you wanted to have sex you could not enjoy it. Marriage and sex was only for having children that later went against you. Katherine,Winston's wifesays on page 74, "It's our duty to th eparty." When people do have children Big Brother trains them to go against thier parents as Junior Spy. They do this to isolate each indivisual, so no one can go against Big Brother or love anyone else, unless you want to go off with the tought police.

A thoughtcrime, one of the biggest crimes you can comit in Oceania. Of course there are no crimes except thinking bad thoughts. This is truely how they control our mind, because when you dig deeper thought crime is a lot of crimes, that you can commit, if you dojnt learn to see lies or use double think. If they say 2+2=5 you are forced to see that 2+2=5, anything else is a thoughtcrime. They take you away and "cure" you and when you are cured, they eventually kiled you. They woul dnever kil anyone hating Big Brother. Winston writes in his diary on page 32,"Thoughtcrime does not entail death, thought crime is death." If you do it or are "cured" you are bound to die afterthey take over your mind and you do what they want you to do even if it means to betray the one you love. They always find you biggest fear and use it against you.The torture is that cruel to takeover your mind.

There you have it, the sad world we live in, where the party can control your mind and body. We can nopt be happy. They threaten us, take away from us, and torture us just enought that we stay and eat out of the palm of thier hands. Big Brother will always win!