3. Define and Describe

The theme of justice in 1984 is quite different from what I think (or at least hope) most people would have. The way justice is portrayed by the government in this novel is a bleak picture.  Justice, one might say, doesn't exist in 1984. Well, at least as most people might consider to be justice. Big Brother and the (ironically named) Ministry of Truth controls everything that happens in the fictional world of 1984.      The way this is presented is made very clear by the Ministry of Truth's slogan "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" (Orwell, 17). This slogan, is plastered everywhere. Along with the image of Big Brother that says "Big Brother is always watching"(19). The book is written in third person limited, which I think is the best way to portray the world in this book. The reason I think this is because you feel exactly like Winston. You have no idea what is going on with The Ministry, or the Party, all you know is that it is the controlling power which feeds people lies. So by not using say, third person omniscient, we get a better sense of what is ACTUALLY going on in the book.      The plot in this book has told me about the perception of justice by the excitement of activities that really should not be excited. Writing in a book about how you hate the government is something that plenty of "teenage anarchists" do, but while I was reading Winston right "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"(18) I was on the edge of my seat. After he opened the door and the book was sitting open on the table the feeling I had was similar to watching a WWII movie where someone was hiding Jews and there are Nazis at the door. All these (usually mundane) things were intense because of the warped perception of justice.