is the ,
or main character, of 's novel . He works for the government of Oceania, specifically the
Ministry of Truth, an organization tasked with changing all records to support the ideology of
Big Brother. His job title is records editor in the Records Department at the
Ministry.
The Party believes that in order to maintain power it needs to
control the flow of information not just about the past but also about the present. For example,
Oceania has been at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. The Party, for some reason not
known to Smith, decides that they are now allied with Eastasia and at war with Eurasia. In order
to maintain control of the truth, the Party insists that they have always been at war with
Eurasia and has the Ministry of Truth rewrite history to reflect this. Smith puts in 90 hours at
work in five days to make this change, going through past books and newspapers and editing them
to reflect the current reality.
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