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Examples Of Langage Orwell's '1984'

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In a backwards society, language is one of the few things that does not get its own freedom. George Orwell created a backwards society of his own in his book 1984. The society he created was a dystopia, which is an imaginary society that forces the people in it into a very miserable and oppressed way of living. Throughout the book we see that a major source of this oppression was the restriction on langage. This supports Orwell claims that language is what allows us freedom. In 1984, the language that is required to be used is the foundation of this dystopian society. The leaders from 1984 manipulated words in english so that the people could not speak against them or say anything negative about them. The leaders ultimately wanted to have
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