1984 Response 1

In Oceania they have created equality in The Party by stressing the working for the whole. Through Monotonous work of the majority and the extermination of the dissenting opinions they have made the mindsets of everyone equal. They have created a world where individual rights are not a problem because it is an impossibility to have them; with privacy, even in thought, removed from people's lives, there is no room to step out of the status quo or to even think of having rights. Relationships have been broken down into something that is purely for procreation where not much love can be established, thus eliminating conflict in this aspect of peoples lives. There is no religion outside of the state, where people hold the Big Brother in almost divine status. All non-conformity is snuffed out by a secret police force, and conformity is otherwise achieved by making the world that you want people to accept the only option. One example of this would be how at his job the protagonist alters historical fact to fit what The Party wants the world to be like so there is no dissenting past. Based on the way that The Party suppresses anything that would reveal it in a negative light and takes away the people's freedom of choice in the world, and the state of disrepair that both society and infrastructure are in would make me say that Oceania is a dystopia.