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.

How often or on what system the Thought police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork Page 5
Even a back can be revealing Page 5
He tried to squeeze out a memory that should tell him whether London was always like this. Page 5
For some reason, the telescreen in the living room was in an unusual position. page 7
Its smooth creamy paper deserved to be written on with a real nib instead of being scratched with an ink pencil page 8
He disliked nearly all women especially young pretty ones 12
Your one-time existence was denied then forgotten, You were abolished, annihilated: vapourised 21
It was Mrs Pasrons, the wife 22
How could you make an appeal to the future when not a trace of you not even an anonymous scribbled word on a piece of paper physically survive 29
41-42-43-44-45 good quotes about editing history and the destruction of “untrue ” events. This shows control.
It was, therefore, necessary to rewrite the paragraph of Big Brother speech in such a way as to make him predict the thing that had actually happened. 41
Winstons job was to rectify the original figures by making them agree with the later ones
Day by Day minute by minute the past was brought up to date 42
You didn’t have friends anymore, you had comrades. 51
I’ve been using the same one for weeks he added untruthfully 52
We’re destroying words scores of them, hundreds of them a day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. 54
Dont you see the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. 55
Until they have been conscious they ill never rebel and until they have rebelled they cannot become conscious 74
Not a thought could be proved or disproved 77
And when memory failed and written records were falsified when that happened the claim of the party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted because there did not exist and could never exist any standard against which it could be tested 97
The rocket bombs that fell on London Daily were probably fired from the government of Oceania itself just to keep people frightened. This was an idea that had literary never occurred to him.
Orthodoxy is not thinking Orthodoxy is not needing to think.Orthodoxy is unconscious
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.