Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones
And only yesterday […] it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours?
Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date 
History is written by the victors – Winston Churchill

In Gorge Orwell’s dystopian novel, nineteen eighty-four, makes us question the reality and authenticity within our society and why a totalitarian government. One of these questions is the control of “rectified” facts can control a society. It shows us the power and the influence the writers have over the minds of the unaware.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. He realises that the previous events and people have brought them to where they are now, but comes to the realisation that the people in control over society in present can make the past look however they want it to. The Party despises the pass does this destroying all books and other literature and rewrite it only containing information they wish the citizens to have. They also abolish anyway of people recording their
The Party rewrites all the books ever made to remove all also constantly deletes their records making sure there is no one can who can disprove them. Historical fact is only a fact if enough people believe it to be so. This novel also reflects the fears they had at the time as…. History is written by the victors – Winston Churchill

RETYPED VERSION:

George Orwell has expanded on the anxieties held post World War Two about the degree to which communist States were seeking to control their citizens. He constructed a fictional future where the very records of history were constantly manipulated by the state. [Insert quote about mutability of the past] Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth; the records department of The Party, the totalitarian government in Oceania, the state in which he lives. His job is to “rectify” all documents that have been published in the past so that they reflect the current propaganda of the Party. Through the presentation of the ‘records department’ in the novel, Orwell is able to show how control over the documents of history and recorded fact allow a state to control their population. “Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date“. Winston’s job was often mundane. In relation to reports of state production “Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones” – the ‘later’ figures are in fact fabrications, created by the Party to deceive the population into believing that there was a supply of products that didn’t exist.