1984 By George Orwell
The novel 1984 by George Orwell portrays many political dynamics and propaganda techniques. The party in control uses the Ministry of Truth to disseminate lies and control the news, and newspeak to manipulate the population by changing the language. Newspeak is the modification of the working language in which the citizens of Oceania live by. The modification of the language is way of controlling the people’s thoughts and actions, and obtaining the will of “Big Brother.” If you take away the knowledge of revolt for example, how will the people think of it? At one point Winston is chatting with one of his comrades inside of the Ministry who states, “don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end,
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The party also changed the way in which thoughts and words are expressed by changing word and sentence structure. For example, the word good could be altered to good, ungood, plusgood, doubleplusgood. By attaching these suffixes to the word good, the party is controlling the depth of thought that an individual might take part in. The simplification of words is relatable to real-life. Take for example, Congressional legislation. Recently, the Republican controlled Congress unveiled their replacement for the Affordable Care Act. Democrats were immediately opposed to the replacement package and began to label the bill Trump Care. Trump implies a negative connotation with many Democrats and the title reduction is used as a form of propaganda to instigate backlash and automatic dislike for the legislation. The same thing was done for the Affordable Care Act which became labeled Obamacare. The Republicans were against it and the name had an automatic negative connotation for many of them. However, Obamacare carried a positive connotation for the Democrats and eventually became a rallying point for them. This happens in many cases where authors of legislation will fill the short title with words that will be catchy and appealing to other members and the masses at
The party also changed the way in which thoughts and words are expressed by changing word and sentence structure. For example, the word good could be altered to good, ungood, plusgood, doubleplusgood. By attaching these suffixes to the word good, the party is controlling the depth of thought that an individual might take part in. The simplification of words is relatable to real-life. Take for example, Congressional legislation. Recently, the Republican controlled Congress unveiled their replacement for the Affordable Care Act. Democrats were immediately opposed to the replacement package and began to label the bill Trump Care. Trump implies a negative connotation with many Democrats and the title reduction is used as a form of propaganda to instigate backlash and automatic dislike for the legislation. The same thing was done for the Affordable Care Act which became labeled Obamacare. The Republicans were against it and the name had an automatic negative connotation for many of them. However, Obamacare carried a positive connotation for the Democrats and eventually became a rallying point for them. This happens in many cases where authors of legislation will fill the short title with words that will be catchy and appealing to other members and the masses at