The idea of ​​a society where there is no freedom and people have no rights can be described through the cautionary predictions of a dystopia. In the novel, 1984, a country has lost all freedoms to its own government and war is commonly used as a political tool, as our government has done in the past. As our country continues to become the dystopia described by George Orwell, war is seen being used as a political tool to aid the government's agenda. By using wars to control people's social opinions, the country's products and wealth, and the opinions of politicians and government officials, the United States and Oceania country governments can promote their own ideologies over others. reference for comparison, the military state of Oceania controls the Outer Party, wealth, and the Inner Party through the use of war. In their society the citizens of the Outer Party were described as “a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, working, fighting, triumphing, perpetually persecuting – three hundred million people ”. all with the same face” (Orwell 64). They only had the thoughts that the government gave them, which created no possibility of the people revolting. The only thing the Outer Party knew was how to love government. They had no entertainment, everything was made for the war, otherwise he went to antique shops where it was illegal to go (Orwell n.pag). The country's main goal was war, and everything else was considered nonsense. This creation of non-war shops also helped the Party to trap resilient people, because they managed to catch them purchasing non-war goods from illegal...... middle of paper... towards the goals of the country from a sense of nationalism (McEnaney 21; Orwell n.pag.). The resentment that the people hold towards the enemy comes from the government's war distracting the people from the government's actions towards them. The ways in which the government uses war to help them achieve their goals by controlling citizens. The United States and Oceania governments use war as a political tool to control people's social opinions, the country's products and wealth, and the opinions of politicians and government officials. The ways in which war is used as a political tool include control of a country's citizens and products. Both the country in 1984 and the United States use war in similar ways. Comparing the current period with the history of 1984 it is easy to see the similarities in the way war is used as a political tool..