1) “In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”


1) What this means to me is that the Party has huge control of the peoples minds, and they also have a lot of propaganda. The quote says that the party has so much power and control, that if they say 2+2=5 then you have to believe it or you might get killed. This relates to the real world because in china when the communists first took rule, started to go into peoples homes without permission, but the people didn’t and couldn’t do anything.