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Examples Of Dehumanization In 1984 By George Orwell

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In the world of 1984, George Orwell reveals that words had been used not to declare truths but mostly hide them. The abuse and misuse of English become a weapon to power up the political party as they cloak the truth and deceive the public. Newspeak, technically English 2.0 had created a submission of vocabulary. The citizens had fewer words which limited their ability to share ideas. The party compounded and reduced words through a process; they changed the citizen's thoughts by carefully defining words. Once Ingsoc capped language, they were able to control and define reality. This creation caused a confusion in what is actually going on just by calling it differently. The party used newspeak as a weapon. The weapon then defined reality. …show more content…

Big Brother provides false representations of history, science, and even math. (Bernstein pg.26-28)This dehumanization forms a mind control with different types of technology that all create an umbrella in the physical environment. Winston begins to break down these barriers to form sovereignty from Big Brother. As Winton begins to commit the thought crime, he roams away from the ideas that had been implanted by the party. This all launches a self realization that the party had successfully changed the mental environment for all of its citizens. By limiting the words the party limited the reality which in turn hides information from the public such as who Britain was at war with or even who existed outside of their communities.George Orwell warns us of three developments that would lead to benefits in surveillance, nuclear war, and a bureaucracy stat. All which will increase a totalitarian society that reduces its citizen’s privacy, as well individual freedom. Finally giving a powerful tool to the state that intrudes the citizen’s free will from right under their noses. How far is it that the party takes its ability to invade the public’s party? What secret surveillance or tools had the party used to gain facts true or false about its …show more content…

All which leads to a nation in which the people are in complete compliance with the party's needs. Senselessly the people take in all brainwashing techniques as they come. Language becomes a tool, which the inner party uses to extinct the decisions and awareness the public used to contain.
Ingsoc or NewSpeak creates power for the party; with a blind belief in spite of facts even in their own mind citizens aren’t safe with the fear of committing a thought crime. Big brother removes the root of words from history by simplifying their very thought process. All while creating approved views that give a subjective fit to the Big Brother party. George Orwell hints to us in Nineteen Eighty-Four that we increase public attention of this “New Speak”. The media in his novel show us this expression of language by the use of posters, and advertised on the Television. Double think which creates a inconsistency in phrases such as “Ignorance is Strength” or “Freedom is Slavery”(Orwell pg.6). Language is used by the party to fool and shape people. All which leads to a nation in which the people completely comply to the party and senselessly take all brainwashing techniques as they come. Language becomes a tool, with the end objective being the extinction of decision and

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