Chapter 4

Winston works in the ministry of truth, his job is to rectify the documents that are subjected as “errors, misprints, and misquotations”.  The truth is that Winston's job is to actually do forgery. His job is to make the party look good in front of the citizens. Some of his work tools are: speakwrite which is a device that records what you say, a memory hole where Winston throws the older documents which are purged and destroyed forever. Once Winston rectifies the document, he clips the speakwrite corrections to the appropriate copy of ‘The Times’ and pushed them in to the pneumatic tube. Not only were newspapers rectify but also books, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoon, photographs, to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideology significance.

Tillotson is dark chinned man who might have the same job as Winston but he is not very sure of this since no one in the ministry of truth talks about their job. Winston suspects that they might have the same job since he also has a speakwrite.

The proletariat or the working class had a different newspaper, they had literature, music, drama, sport, crime, astrology, sensational five- cent novelettes, sex with ooze,

cheap pornography and only the proletarians could take a look at. The members of the party could not look at this kind of newspapers.

In this chapter we also see that Winston who was in charge of writing about Mr. Withers or the comrade for receiving the Order of Conspicuous Merit was canceled. Winston received a message where the information he sent was incorrect since no one with that name existed. Winston imagined that maybe the party killed him. People who were “evaporated” were first arrested and then killed, sometimes they were arrested and send free for 1 or 2 years and then executed. Mr. Withers was now “UNPERSON” a person who does not exist and never existed. Now Winston’s job was to create someone who does not exist. Winston has to write a type of speech that Big brother might say in a way of thanking a man who has always been loyal to the party. Winston invented the man Comrade Ogilvy. This mas will be remembered as a hero to the society of Oceania due to his loyal service. This were the kind of jobs were Winston had to use his imagination and the principles of Ingsoc: newspeak, doublethink, and mutability of the past.