Thursday, 9 February 2017

What is the irony in the names "Ministry of Love" and "Ministry of Plenty" in 1984? Did you find any of this irony humorous?

Thein the names of
these Ministries is indeed very striking. The Ministry of Love, for instance, shows anything but
love to the people of Oceania and the Ministry of Plenty is, in fact, a source of material
deprivation. As this book charts the struggle of one man, , against the Party, a totalitarian
government, the reader is unlikely to find any humour in this irony. This humour is, perhaps,
reserved for Inner Party members, like . For men like him, life is anything but brutal and
deprived. O'Brien, for example, is allowed to drink wine and turn off his telescreen while those
below, like Winston and , become increasingly dependent and alienated.

In
using irony in this way,makes one of his most important points of : that
totalitarian regimes care more about maintaining absolute power than about the lives of the
people they rule.

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