The book 1984 is an explanation of Oceania’s official language, newspeak. There are many examples of this throughout the text such as doublethink. Newspeak consists of A vocabulary, B vocabulary, and C vocabulary. The A vocabulary has word that are needed for everyday life and words that already exist.
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In the world of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, the totalitarian regime of one of the three superstates, Oceania, was known as “The Party” . In order for “The Party” to constantly maintain complete control of the minds of the party members, they instituted principles such as “doublethink” (as described in this quotation). The principle of “doublethink” is instilled in the minds of party members since birth. In essence “doublethink” allows for two opposing thoughts to reside in one’s mind while both are taken as the absolute truth. By instituting this principle “The Party” is able to control the minds of the masses simply by stating a fact because party members are taught that every word spoken by “The Party” is truth.
In the book 1984 the idea of doublethink is for a person to believe in two very different idea and to think that both of the the ideas are true. The Party has created the idea of doublethink so that they would be able to control Oceania. Doublethink is essential to the Party because it control the citizens of Oceania. The Party use doublethink to brainwash all the citizens and to make them believe in all the information that they what that citizen to believe instead of information in reality “doublethink the mutability of the past and denial of objective reality and to use Newspeak words”(page 196). The Party has also given the people of Oceania information that might have become useful for things the Party are trying to do, but when the Party
The novel, 1984, is an interesting book to read as it shows how the party manipulates the people of Oceania through the use of doublethink and newspeak, and how the party is controlling their minds. The novel also shows the journey of the main character, Winston, and his opposing opinions and struggles against the party. 1984 is an interesting novel to read because it shows how the party controls its citizens in the novel. For example, the Party uses this type of manipulation called doublethink. Doublethink is just when the Party changes any information he doesn’t like, so that it is in the form that he sees as correct.
In the book 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith is living in an oppressed, dystopian, society where every means of a citizen’s life is monitored and controlled by the government. As the story develops, Winston learns how the Party is able to keep everything just the way it wants. He also learns that the most important elements in the government’s system are communication and language. One such instance is the Party’s attempt to replace the language of Oceania with Newspeak. In 1984, Newspeak is being carefully altered and developed to perfectly fit the needs of Big Brother and the Party.
In a fictional world named Oceania exists a manipulative government, Big Brother, that seeks to control the mindset of every civilian. In the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the government uses various tactics to have better control of each individual, but the most effective one is Doublethink. Doublethink is the ability to maintaining two views that oppose each other. This government tactic is used to detect those who are unloyal to the Party, Big Brother. With the use of Media Censorship: Freedom Versus Responsibility by Irum Saeed Abbasi and Laila Al-Sharqi, the reader can unveil the constant similarities with this fictional world to the real world.
A second important point George Orwell makes in 1984 is if governments assume too much power, they will ultimately control how and what people think. In Airstrip One, the government uses the manipulative practices of “Doublethink” and “Newspeak” to control thought. Towards the end of the novel, Winston receives “The Book” which he believes is the book written by Goldstein, public enemy number one, containing Goldstein’s teachings. In the book, Goldstein explains how governments control the people and keep them in line through doublethink. The book claims: “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them” (234).
Newspeak is a major part of how Big Brother controls the people in 1984 because Newspeak is the way to keep creativity to a minimum, to limit the knowledge of the people, and to eliminate the ways people can speak out about Big Brother. Newspeak contrives to consistently revive Doublethink or the action of believing two completely different and contradictory ideas at once in order to control the brain of its speakers. Newspeak is destructive in nature because of its destruction words that are “useless,” but all words have a specific meaning even if their definition is close to another word. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can
If you were tortured with your worst nightmare, would you be able to make rational decisions? The government, which is called the Party in the world of 1984, is totalitarian and the protagonist Winston attempts to go against them. In the end, he fails to rebel against the party and gets tortured with his worst fear. The theme that George Orwell conveyed in 1984, is that fear can influence someone to make decisions they normally wouldn’t make. The Ministry of Love uses rats to torture Winston, which is his biggest fear, and it makes him betray Julia.
Doublethink In 1984 by George Orwell, the Party uses doublethink in order to maintain total totalitarian control over the thoughts and actions of their citizens. By incorporating doublethink into their slogans the party consolidates their power. It guarantees that civilians internalize and truly believe in the “truths” they present even if they are completely illogical. The active acceptance of the Party’s ideology suppresses individuality and consciousness.
George Orwell’s novel 1984 shows the transformation of a man under the careful, overwhelming pressure of a totalitarian government system. Whilst Winston falls under the intense torture O’Brien imposes on him, his abuser uses a method of psychological manipulation to “make him one of ourselves” (255). The Party’s ideal ‘rehabilitation’ of these thought criminals involves “convert[ing] him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him” (255) all in the hopes of “bring[ing] him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul” (255). Repetition of the pronoun ‘we’ through anaphora, drills the idea of The Party’s total control and ownership over Winston’s body and mind, removing the
Language is a powerful tool and skill that shapes an individual’s thoughts, beliefs, and actions. In George Orwell’s book, 1984, the concept of Newspeak is presented as a portrayal of language manipulation and how sinister it is. Though a fictional language, it is proposed to not only control thoughts and actions, but also to limit one’s ability to think. With the dangers of Newspeak as a form of language manipulation and what it proposes for the modern world, by elaborating on the impact of Newspeak and its effect on an individual’s cognitive ability, society gains an understanding of the importance of free thought and critical thinking.
In Newspeak, Orwell invents a language that will make rebellion impossible, because the words to conceive of such an action cease to exist. doublethink in the novel represents the ability to maintain two contradictory ideas in one’s head simultaneously and believe them both to be true. Emmanuel Goldstein’s manifesto even suggests that doublethink is strongest among the powerful Inner Party members who convince themselves that they act for Big Brother, even though they know that Big Brother is a myth. Only because double thinking is a powerful thing in this novel they try making the citizens avoid double thinking.
Manipulation of language is one of the themes of George Orwell's 1984. Language manipulation was one of the many ways the Inner Party controlled the population. The Ministry of Truth did this by creating a new language, Newspeak. This language was constructed to have no words for any unorthodox thoughts. Some of which are: that the government is bad, things could be better, or even life could be lived differently.
