From the perspective of a reader, not being deeply
entrenched in the Party ourselves, just being onlookers at this situation, this is
indeed difficult to define.
I would encourage you that one
great similarity is the distinction by location. At the time of Orwell's writing, the
superpowers were the United States, and the USSR. Each of these superpowers names
distinctly defined their country's political aims, whereas the Britians and Germanys of
the world stuck to their age-old names that delineated ethnicity only. The names of
Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia suggest that the world has been taken from over 200
countries and put into only 3 distinct regions. They named themselves according to
location, not at all according to political purpose.
These
regions also maintain similarity in that their fight is over territory, or power alone.
It is not about great political debate or inhumane behavior that we see in our
societies.
In my opinion, these similarities exist because
they further support a major message in the book that humanity is being destroyed
through a process of desensitization. With so little to identify the countries and with
so little purpose, no one really knows why there is a fight, NOR DO THEY CARE TO
ASK.
To find distinct differences if you are interested,
the greatest testimony to difference occurs as Mongols are paraded about the streets in
trapped vehicles seeming to go from one concentration-type camp to another. Thus the
only difference seen is ethnicity. The proles aren't affected by this, whereas in our
societies ethnicity has made us distinctly more aware of our own identities and
backgrounds.
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