After studying George Orwell's '1984', I intend to discuss the type of government Orwell envisioned and the extent to which his totalitarian party, 'Ingsoc', satirizes past regimes. I will also discuss why Orwell wrote such a piece and how his writing style helped it become clear. The main theme of 1984 concerns the restrictions imposed on individual freedom by a totalitarian regime. Orwell shows how such a system can impose its will on people through manipulation of the press, elimination of democracy, constant supervision (courtesy of television screens), and more. Orwell also shows how the state has more subtle methods of imposing its authority, such as manipulation of language and control of the media. Propaganda also plays a central role within the Party's infrastructure and is used to gain support for Big Brother and arouse patriotism. and induce hatred towards the chosen "enemy" country. Workers at the Ministry of Truth work to change the past, making it seem like Big Brother was right all along. Furthermore, the Party seeks to stifle any individual or "potentially revolutionary" thought by introducing a new language, Newspeak, the eradication of English, and the deployment of a "thought police" who terrorize party members by accusing them of "thought crimes " (e.g. thinking of a crime is committing a crime). The introduction of this new language means that ultimately no one will be able to commit mental crimes due to the lack of words to express it. This is a scary concept: the restriction of your thinking could destroy your personality if the ability to think for yourself was erased. For the Party, words are a weapon, but war is not physical; it's a war against the truth - The Ministry of Truth, minitrue, rewrites history and falsifies documents, the Ministry of Peace, minipax, wages war, "It's a beautiful thing, destruction of words... You have no real appreciation for Newspeak, Winston... Don't you see that the main purpose of Newspeak is to narrow the field of thought. Ultimately we will make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words with which to express it." (Syme to Winston -p46) 1984 may not be known to everyone, but there are some phrases and expressions that have actually gained common usage in the English language. Examples of this would be Newspeak, thought crime, Big Brother, non-personhood and doublethink. All of these refer to the frightening power of the state to alter reality..