1984 One

"War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength."

This quote appears throughout the novel by George Orwell, most importantly at the beginning, which automatically sets the tone for the reader. It has been said and demonstrated many times before, that war is peace. War is peace because when one side rallies up against another, all differences on that one side are momentarily forgotten. But then, as history has proven, alliances within a country or nation can shift drastically against each other, as the U.S. demonstrated in the Civil War (1861-65). As long as anyone living could remember, Oceania had always been at war, with either Eurasia or Eastasia. Thus Orwell suggests that peace had always been maintained within Oceania.