1984 #3

"Day by day almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown as documentary evidence to have been correct" (Orwell, 40). This is what Winston, and all other employees at the Ministry of Truth, were responsible of every day when they went to work. To rewrite the past in a way that was considered acceptable to the Party and especially to Big Brother himself. This was always the way that made Big Brother correct about all the events that took place, even if that required the past to be completely made up. The fact that changing history could be so easily done and was such a common thing was one of the biggest mental struggles for the people of Oceania to get used to. Like Winston, it was difficult for them to wrap their minds around the new way of thinking and make themselves believe that everything the Party said was in fact, the truth.