There
are no laws in Oceania, only conventions. People behave the way they do, both towards each other
and to the organs of the state, not because it's legal, but because it's expected of them.
Conventions dictate every aspect of life in Oceania; they shape and mold each individual to be a
certain way.and 's behavior isn't subversive because it's illegal, but rather because they've
both broken the mold created by time-honored conventions handed down by successive
generations.
However, just because social life in Oceania is regulated by
conventions and not laws, it doesn't mean those conventions are any less repressive. In fact,
the established conventions that govern this totalitarian society are even more repressive than
the laws passed down by similar one-party dictatorships in the real world, and the consequences
of breaking these conventions are even more frightening. Anyone who acts contrary to their
allotted position in 's society runs the serious risk of
being...
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