Eastasia (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
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Eastasia is one of the three superstates in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Its borders are not as clearly defined as the other two superstates but it is known that they at least comprise most of modern day China, Japan, and Korea as well as fluctuating areas of Manchuria, Mongolia, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, and the Middle East. Its political ideology is, according to the novel, "called by a Chinese name usually translated as Death-worship, but perhaps better rendered as "Obliteration of the Self".
Not much information about Eastasia is given in the book but it is known that it is the newest and smallest of the three superstates. According to Goldstein's book it emerged a decade after the establishment of the other two superstates: Oceania and Eurasia placing it somewhere in the 1960s, after years of fighting among the nations that now make up this state. It is also said in the book that the people of Eastasia are industrious and that allows them to overcome their inadequacies over the other two states. It is believed by some that Eastasia is in fact just one part of a "World State" that controls all of Earth, but pretends to exist as three states to maintain the constant war.
| Characters | Winston Smith | Julia | O'Brien | Big Brother | Emmanuel Goldstein |
|---|---|
| Places | Oceania | Eastasia | Eurasia | Airstrip One | Room 101 |
| Classes | Inner Party | Outer Party | Proles |
| Ministries | Ministry of Love | Ministry of Peace | Ministry of Plenty | Ministry of Truth |
| Concepts | Ingsoc | Newspeak (wordlist) | Doublethink | Goodthink | Crimestop Two plus two make five | Thoughtcrime | Prolefeed | Prolesec |
| Miscellaneous | Thought Police | Telescreen | Memory hole | Goldstein's book Two Minutes Hate | Hate week |
| Adaptations | 1956 film | 1984 film | 1953 US TV | 1954 BBC programme | Opera |
| Influence | Nineteen Eighty-Four in popular media Parody: Me and the Big Guy |
