The society in 1984, is a dystopia disguised as a utopia. The people are lied to by the Party. The Party is the ruling class. The Party edits history in order to make the people believe their life is better than the lives of people in the past. Equality does not actually exist, but conformity does. The live of people in 1984 are actually worse than the lives of people fifty years before.
Equality was not completely created in 1984, members of the Party were not supposed to shop at ordinary shops. If everyone was equal, everyone would be able to shop where ever they wanted. The neighborhoods where the paroles live are in worse condition then the area where Winston, and other Party members, live. Both of the places are in bad condition, but the Victory mansions are at least seven stories high. Also, Party members are better educated than the paroles.
The government reduces conflict by changing history. For example if the government no longer wanted a religion to exist the government simply had to remove it from history. People, such as Winston, job is to change history. They will be assigned a topic, such as a person who was eliminated, and change it so that that topic, person, never existed. The Party easily controls individual right to conflict. The Party could change history so it appears that the people have more rights than the people of the past. They have forced happiness by changing history, in the same way that they could prevent conflicts over individual rights. The Party could change history to make it say that the chocolate rations are higher now than they were three months ago.
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