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Introduction Daring, heroic, disaster, excitement, adrenaline and terror all describe “The Finest Hours”. “The Finest Hours” is an amazing story of a traitorous sea rescue mission, taking place off the coast of Cape Cod during a howling Nor'easter. This adrenaline filled book by Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman is a must read for anyone who is looking for an amazing survival story.
In his influential novel, 1984, George Orwell uses a myriad of literary techniques, including themes, imagery, and motifs, to characterize life in post-revolution Oceania; he contrasts monotonous diction and curt sentence structure with vivid diction to emphasize the incompatibility of the bleak landscape of the city with the curious, emotional landscape of the human mind. During this passage (the first three paragraphs of page 126), Winston and Julia finally meet up in a secluded, forested area, where they talk and have sex. Directly after the two wake up from their nap, they part ways, Julia leaving first and Winston twenty minutes later, as not to get caught together. Orwell depicts a calm mood in this scene by using peaceful diction.
1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian novel that follows protagonist, Winston Smith, as he retells the past in his own point of view. This novel is set in a fictional country, known as Oceania, during the year 1984. This novel is told in the past tense and contains elements of figurative language, including hefty loads of foreshadowing. Dark and frustrated, the author utilizes this tone to illuminate the dystopian aspects of the book. Winston is a low-ranking member of society, which is under the rule of the Party.
It is obvious that the government is the biggest thing in the book “1984” and how much the government controls the population is astounding. Although there are many obvious ways that Big Brother controls the population, “Newspeak” is probably one of the worst, if not the worst and most intense control mechanism. With “Newspeak” not only is what people say controlled, but it is also restricted, it is made so that the language used is modified and people cannot say certain things even if they wanted to. “Newspeak” is a way in which the government in Oceania controls what the people say and believe. Big brother is the ruler of Oceania, and while it might not directly be said that he is a dictator, it is very much obvious that everything that
Have you ever been watched every second of the day, even doing little things like going to the bathroom? Does someone constantly tell you what to do and how to do it? In the book 1984 this is how most of the people of Oceania lived. They are controlled by the “Big Brother” that nobody knows who are what it really is. In this society they go by three slogans and which says in the book, “FREEDOME IS SALVERY, WAR IS PEACE and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”.
The article expresses the views of author Rebecca Greenfield, against Noam Chomsky’s beliefs that social media sites such as twitter is destroying the English language. Rebecca goes on to disagree saying that twitter isn’t destroying the English language but in fact is making it better. Furthermore Rebecca uses interviews with linguist and other writers to help better argue her views against Chomsky. I believe that social media has a positive effect on our language and in our culture because, it reaches people faster.
Life in the real world, compared to that in the novel, “1984” by George Orwell, is something completely different when put side to side. As soon as we get into this book, all of this “Big Brother” propaganda is shoved into our faces. It shows us their form of government, if we can call it that to begin with. Everybody lives in fear, doing what they are told to do. Already this violated our constitution, our freedom.
In George Orwell's 1984, the Party uses language to control thought and limit free expression. The creation of Newspeak is designed "to make
War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. These are the principles citizens of Oceania, in the novel 1984, by George Orwell, are forced to believe in. With the addition of literary devices, such as foreshadowing and diction, totalitarianism is exposed through the Party’s beliefs along with their love towards Big Brother.
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.
To begin with, we see that with control, governments can mold citizens into their ideal form. In George Orwell’s 1984, the government creates a new language in order to narrow the range of thought; you cannot go against the government using words that don't exist. According to 1984, “Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
Censorship of History One day thousands of Chinese citizens were slaughtered by their government, and the event known to the rest of the world as the Tiananmen Square Massacre was essentially erased through censorship. Victims of the Tiananmen Square Massacre weren’t mourned, familys were forced to remain silent in their grief because of the government’s prohibition of the truth. George Orwell wrote his famous novel 1984 in 1948 forty-one years later the Chinese government proved to the world what could happen when there is a significant power imbalance. The Party in Orwell’s work said “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
When Faced With Tyranny When one is faced with an oppressive government, they can lose control over all aspects of their daily lives. It is also easy for one to lose authority over themselves when faced with a stronger force. What might one’s response be when they possess little to no control over their lives? Many people may blindly follow society, but others might choose to disobey the rules. In 1984 by George Orwell, Winston Smith’s defiant nature and curious attitude display that one may turn to rebellion when faced with tyranny.
By limiting the vocabulary, Newspeak is essentially “unintelligible” and hence controls the people’s understanding of the real world. Orwell emphasises that language is of utmost importance as it structures and limits the ideas individuals are capable of formulating and expressing. In 1984, language is used as a ‘mind control tool’. The party slogan, “war is peace, freedom is
In Orwell's opinion, the destruction of Language is used to dumb down the people and control the minds of the masses. This ideology is exhibited in the fictional language of Newspeak, the language created by Orwell in the book 1984. The purpose of Newspeak is to lessen the knowledge of the people under the Party and eventually make thought crime impossible. An example of this is in the
