1984 by George Orwell presents a negative image, a society governed by totalitarianism. The government created in the novel is ruled by Big Brother and is made up of three branches. “The Ministry of Truth, which covered news, entertainment, education and fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which dealt with the war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.” (Orwell 6). The main character Winston Smith does not accept the ideology of Big Brother. There are three states in the novel Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. In the novel Orwell claims that Oceania is at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. Nationalism is really important in this novel because there is totalitarianism in the novel and the people are racist. The effect of nationalism in the novel is that there is no freedom in the city. Nationalism ruins everyone's life because they go to work and then come home, there is no social life. In the novel the Party controls everything and this is part of nationalism. Freedom is a really important theme in the novel because the novel is based on how people don't have freedom in 1984. Freedom is something that is controlled by nationalism because the “Ingsoc” Party controls everything in the city and they don't allow citizens to express feelings and having friends. In the novel people have no freedom because there are telescreens everywhere, so wherever you go somewhere there will be telescreens. Telescreen technology began after... middle of paper... Winston keeps having flashbacks to his childhood and how the world was different before the revolution. He cannot forget his mother's death because then there was still privacy, love and friendship, and family members supported each other without needing to know why. In his flashback he also remembers that the citizens of Ocean made boots almost out of paper and half the population was barefoot. Before the revolution women had to work in coal mines and children were sold to factories at the age of six. Even there where the capitalists those people own everything, they ran the city so they always had the good things, like good food, a nice house and so on. Before the revolution there is the most terrible oppression, injustice and poverty.