After a ninety-hour workweek, Winston is exhausted. In the middle of Hate Week, Oceania has switched enemies and allies in the ongoing war, heaping upon Winston a tremendous amount of work to compensate for the change. At one rally, the speaker is forced to change his speech halfway through to point out that Oceania is not, and has never been, at war with Eurasia. Rather, the speaker says, Oceania is, and always has been, at war with Eastasia. The people become embarrassed about carrying the anti-Eurasia signs and blame Emmanuel Goldstein’s agents for sabotaging them. Nevertheless, they exhibit full-fledged hatred for Eastasia.…
In Nineteen-Eighty four, the protagonist begins a diary and finds that he hates the party that rules and watches over him. With that being said Winston begins to do things to rebel from Big Brother. Towards the middle of the book, Winston meets and falls in love with Julia. Winston and Julia believe that they are sneaking around behind Big Brothers back undetected. However we find out later that they have been betrayed and turned in. After being beaten, they separate the two and drag them to the Ministry of Love. This incident affects both Julia and Winston, they have to be separated and tortured to wipe away any rebelling thoughts about Big Brother. Once they have been captured we begin to wonder if they will crack under the pressure and accept…
‘Discuss how the citizens of Oceania are controlled and manipulated by the Party in Nineteen Eighty-Four’…
A major theme for both of Orwell’s works is the idea that people, ignorantly, don’t care about what they say or think, and then because they don’t have minds of their own they are easier to manipulate. In his Politics and the English Language, Orwell says how people don’t think about what they are writing and how they have no control over their own mind as ready-made phrases fill their paper and their mind. Then in 1984, Orwell takes this idea a step further showing how easy a civilization of thoughtless ignorance can become one of mindless devotion towards the government. In the book the characters lose their sense family ties, lose sense of time, they lose emotions, they lose their individuality, they lose their ability to remember the past,…
1984, by George Orwell, comes off as very bleak and grey, as it was intended to be portrayed to the reader. This helps us to understand that the world Winston Smith is living in is grey, depressing and overall quite commonplace. A place where he always has to look over his shoulder to make sure that the omnipotent Big Brother won't catch a minor slip of a few choice words or see him flirt with the woman across the way. Orwell successfully accomplishes this through his use of literary methods.…
The first article, Search Engine Agendas by Gary Anthes is based on how the internet can redirect your political views by giving pleasant or unpleasant, information or news on a platform you’re searching up. The author, Gary Anthes, is a technology writer and editor based in Arlington, Virginia therefore he is able to speak about this topic because of the research he implements into his written article. Right away in the first paragraph, Gary gives a summary of the main ideas of George Orwell’s novel, 1984. One of the ideas presented in 1984 is of the invisible entity that manipulates the truth and perspectives of citizens without their acknowledgement. The author compares this idea to today’s internet because search engines…
In Oceania when you step out of line, you will be punished accordingly. That is the message George Orwell tries to get across to his reader in 1984. Since that is the notion he is trying to get his reader to understand as the author in this book, he obeys that rule as well. Orwell uses many literary devices and techniques such as symbolism, metaphors, tone, allusions, and many more… to make the reader understand what kind of society Winston is living in.…
As it is mentioned in the beginning of "Politics and the English language " that "George Orwell (1903-1950), one of the most brilliant social critics of the twentieth century...", Orwell states that English Language is losing its identity. He illustrates six solutions to improve language and the language usage for explanation is manipulative. In "Politics and The English Language", George Orwell is trying to tackle the issue of English Language decline due to bad language usage, but the six solution that Orwell stated are being broken by him that weakens his argument on English Language destruction that leads an individual to have sense of manipulation.…
In 1984 by George Orwell, novelist and essayist creates a dystopian novel that features his frightening vision in 1949 of the world we were soon to become. Orwell’s purpose in this passage is to convey the effect of Winston's stolen and mysterious past. Orwell uses foreshadows and symbols. He adopts a nostalgic and mysterious tone in order to hypothesize a horrific ending.…
George Orwell wrote “Politics and the English language”, in his essay he talks a lot about how nowadays in his time the writers and politicians use really long and complicated ways and words of saying things he even called the language of his time “ ugly and inaccurate”, when really they should just be short and straight to the point. His argument made so much sense that’s just so understandable.…
Language plays an important role for political debates and government decisions. Information is often misrepresented to gain the favor of the populous. This is evident in Orwell’s writing and in the “Hackvists” documentary, often during the course of Knappenberger’s documentary it is shown that euphemisms can greatly mislead and disrupt events in society. Orwell expresses similar views on the topic of euphemisms. In his writings Orwell conveys that a government's ability to abuse power for gain is completely unjust, this coincides with the hacktivist point of view on freedom of speech and oppression. The theme of censorship is commonly seen in the film, in relation to Orwell, he describes that the withholding of information can only lead to…
There would be many crimes and errors which it would be beyond his power to commit, simply because they were nameless and therefore unimaginable. And it was to be foreseen that with the passage of time the distinguishing characteristics of Newspeak would become more and more pronounced — its words growing fewer and fewer, their meanings more and more rigid, and the chance of putting them to improper uses always diminishing.” (Orwell 311) When the meaning of words have been completely changed, citizens are then not able to pick out the truth of a…
3. The greatest danger is that, as in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, doublespeak will lead to the “control of reality through language” (par. 23).…
Surprisingly today language is considered to be only means of communication by the masses. It has become an underappreciated way to exchange information about everything that is on our mind and because humanity uses it every day, they have become too used to its existence. This is one of the main reasons for slang appearance: different groups of people are trying to enrich the set of words they use every day. However, what seems to be left unrealized is the fact that it is not people that define language but the opposite: language, or slang specifically, defines the group that uses it. Such is the case of slang that young people use: in fact, youngsters all over the world create a whole new language that serves with the purpose to separate them from the older generations. Language as a form of rebellion against the system, against customs and traditions that have existed for years can be seen in both A Clockwork Orange and the modern world, including Bulgaria. On the other hand, slang is any new form of language, specific for a certain group of people, as is in Geroge Orwell’s 1984 – Newspeak is a completely new form of language that the government introduces to the nation in order for it to replace completely original English. Yet, Newspeak is still a form of slang. However, here is shown another use of it: slang as means of control, exactly the opposite of its use in A Clockwork Orange and today’s world.…
In 1984 language has been manipulated to remove the possibility of rebellious thoughts. The corrupt government creates Newspeak and makes it the official language of Oceania. It is designed to make the ideological premise of Ingsoc the only expressible doctrine. Although it is very similar to English, the the vocabulary and grammar have been greatly reduced and simplified. In the novel, the totalitarian aim of the Party is to prevent any alternative thinking, referred to as "thoughtcrime". By destroying any vocabulary that expresses concepts like freedom, individualism, resistance to the authority of the state and the like, The Party is successfully able to monitor the thoughts of their people. In this language, words with negative meanings are removed as redundant, so "bad" becomes "ungood". Words with comparative and superlative meanings are also simplified, so "better" becomes "gooder", and "best" becomes "goodest". Intensifiers can be added, so "great" becomes "plusgood", and "excellent" and "splendid" become "doubleplusgood". The goal of exchanging English, or “Oldspeak”, for “Newspeak” is to reinforce the total dominance of the state. Syme, a coworker of Winston, says, “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words” (Orwell 51). The people do not understand how serious the destruction of words is. He says it is “beautiful” yet it is devastating. If…