War is peace?

Well in the novel 1984 this question is one of the main themes in the book. In this book is considered to be a dystopian novel. This means that it has to do with sci-fi and usually brings up topics like power and knowledge. In the book the party is the controlling power in the society, while the citizens are considered as the followers of the society. A great example of this is the idea behind the puppet and the puppet master. In this case the puppets would be the citizens of Oceania the city in London in which this story takes place, and the puppet masters are the heads of the party. The idea behind this is that the puppets (citizens) are what the people see, while the puppet master (the party) who’s controls the puppets is hidden. Thus, bringing us to the conclusion that in order for the party to progress and maintain power they have to hide, leaving only the citizens to show and making it feel that the society is well maintained. But in actual reality the society is corrupted from its roots.

"From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."

“War is peace” is actually part of a quote in the 1984 novel. This quote that I have posted above is the full quote. The quote is acts as a strong reminder to the citizen of the morals the party has set for them. First the part explains that “war is peace”, adding the citizens to the act that unifications is wrong. Because the party knows if the citizens come together they will over throw the party. Also they stress that “freedom is slavery”, they build up this schedule for the citizens to follow through there lives making them believe that being enslaved to a certain power is right and be doing so they achieve ultimate reality, were as the truth is that they are achieving the total opposite. The last part of the quote is “ignorance is strength” the idea played out in this part of the quote is that by being ignorant and not knowing what happens around you will progress and be better, you will achieve your goals, and so forth. Part of the quote “war is peace” doesn’t actually play out a big role when it is separated from the whole quote. Yet when the whole quote is assembled together, then the formation of the meaning starts to progress slowly. There is a bigger meaning than just that war is peace or freedom is slavery, or that ignorance is strength. No, it’s the fact that the mind game that is being played by the party shows us the readers 3 important facts. The first being that war is not peace, but that war will lead to peace, and that slavery is not freedom no but that behind slavery is freedom, and the last point being that ignorance is not strength yet to overcome ignorance with strength is power. This quote and slogan may be the aim of the party, but it only needs one citizen to look past it to realize what the actual meaning portrays.