"A deep and as it were secret sigh went through the Department. A mighty deed, which could never be mentioned, had been achieved. It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened" (183).
When the war against Eurasia suddenly becomes a war against Eastasia, an enormous forgery has to be committed. But in accordance with the wondrous properties of doublethink, once the forgery is committed no forgery has been committed. Orwell uses the event to show just how well the Party's system is developed: even the workers whose job it is to forge events into being cannot remember that they had done such a thing.
check for typos; present tense; great thinking
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ReplyDelete"When the war against Eurasia suddenly became a was against Eastasia, an enormous forgery had to be committed. But in accordance with the wondrous properties of doublethink, once the forgery was committed no forgery had been committed. Orwell used the event to show just how well the Party's system is developed: even the workers whose job it is to forge events into being cannot remember that they had done such a thing."