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MINISTRY OF LOVE
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MINISTRY OF LOVE
Ministry of Love
"He began thinking of the things that would happen to him after the Thought Police took him away. It would not matter if they killed you at once. To be killed was what you expected. But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that had to be gone through: the groveling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth, and bloody clots of hair. Why did you have to endure it, since the end was always the same."
Influence Today/Wider Purpose
The Ministry
- important to look at why it is in the novel
- Orwell witnessed many volatile situations throughout his life
- Seen today through North Korea
- 79 countries out of 155 that signed the UNCAT still torture
- Warning of the dangers of governments with excessive power/secrecy
In Summary
- crucial role in 1984
- “The Ministry of Love was the really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. Winston had never been inside the Ministry of Love, nor within half a kilometer of it. It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-guns nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barriers were roamed by gorilla-faced guards in black uniforms, armed with jointed truncheons.”
- Building is intentionally intimidating
- Ministry of Love has strong role in 1984
- The only way we can stop a snowball effect occurring is to encourage greater transparency from countries about activities that are happening and stop them before they become an accepted part of the world that we live in.
Ministry of Love's Influence
Systematic Brainwashing
Four Techniques
- fear
- security
- repression
- systematic brainwashing
- implemented from birth
- Shown through Parson's daughter that denounces him
- Shown through Parson's proud reaction for his daughter 'doing the right thing'
Connection between Miniluv & Russia
- NKVD's role was to “ protect the state security of the Soviet Union.”
- Murder & "physical means of persuasion was common"
- Winston: “The confession was a formality, though the torture was real. How many times he had been beaten, how long the beatings had continued, he could not remember”
- Stanislaw Karolkiewicz: questioned 10-12 hours each day, beaten to unconsciousness every day for a year
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