Doublespeak

than others. In the novel, “Some day, when times improve…no one will have to be an Econowife” (Atwood 44). Aunt Lydia tried to induce the Handmaids that the Econowife was a bad thing and was not good enough for them. Moreover, Aunt Lydia also used Doublespeak to control and persuade the Handmaids to believe that they could have the freedom. In the novel, “The future is in your hands” (Atwood 47). She used the beautiful words and “freedom” to seduce those women from the truth that there was no…

for a women use" (Vonnegut 3). The ballerina apologizes to the people who are watching, because her voice sounds so pure and beautiful instead of her sounding like she has a speech impediment. In "1984" contrast with the party by using forms of doublespeak. " Ignorance is Strength" (Orwell 8). Oceania citizens have to fight to stay alive. Unlike the other two stories, people had to fight to the death in order to stay alive. Two people from the main area had to travel to twelve districts in order…

beliefs are taken into consideration when making important decisions. Throughout the advertisement, the vocabulary was simple and the information was clear. Obama went straight to the point. In my opinion, Obama did not use an excessive amount of doublespeak language to hide information from the public, Obama seemed genuine and honest. In this advertisement, Obama was in favor of Clinton for president. This advertisement focused on endorsing Hillary Clinton and her many qualities needed to be a…

These three contradictory phrases are the slogans of the Party, but if they make no sense, why do people blindly follow them? Unfortunately, it all goes back to the conviction in which others say them. People say that the best way to win an argument is to shout the loudest, which is exactly what’s happening here. People like the tone in which their neighbors are chanting nonsense, so they blindly join in. Besides, these words are written into stone, so they have to be true… right? Right now…

It isn’t long before this disconnect aggravates itself, quickly spiralling into the uncapped psychosis commonly attributed to Hamlet in the latter part of the production. The catalyst? As The Mousetrap continues along its course, King Claudius stands before the crowd and takes his leave of the scene, retreating to places unknown. Hamlet, seeing this singularly ambiguous action as proof positive of his uncle’s guilt, allows an unconfirmed suspicion to congeal as fact in his delusion-wracked…

In 1984, George Orwell presents a dystopia, the complete opposite of the perfect world. The setting is a post-war situation, based on reality after the world wars. The main character, Winston Smith, faces oppression everyday and is completely controlled by the media. Citizens are brainwashed and manipulated by the Party, the only political party allowed in Oceania. The situation Orwell describes is eerily similar to the one in Germany during the second world war. It seems that 1984 is meant to…

Another subversion of “White language”, so to speak, creating new definitions because they were labeled as the defined, is still seen today in the form of the African American Vernacular English dialect (AAVE) – otherwise known as Ebonics. Revisiting Gloria Anzaldua’s To Tame a Wild Tongue, we find that her experience with “linguistic shaming” is something also encountered by African Americans as AAVE is often looked down-upon as “ignorant speech” due to its deviation from the “standard”…

Clichés are phrases and words which have been used so frequently that they’re powerful or no longer really interesting. They may have started out as a colorful, imaginative phrase, enjoy as sick as a parrot, but they’ve been picked up and used indiscriminately and broadly that they’ve lost their impact and become cold. Clichés are part of our regular language – we regularly don’t understand that we’re using them. Additionally, they appear particularly often in specific kinds of writing…

Hauter reflects on her trip to Dubai and the sights of water pollution she witnessed from big businesses in order to persuade her audience to fight against big business pollution through comparing the actions of these businesses to “a doublespeak that George Orwell’s Big Brother would be proud to call his own.” This article brings to light an extensive discussion on the business counter-argument for needing to pollute, but every argument on the side of business is shut down by a reasoning…

Adderall and propaganda Children are no longer children, but a burden with too much energy, they are too hyperactive. An adult cannot concentrate due to being diagnosed with the condition known as Attention Deficit-Hyperactive Disorder otherwise known as ADHD. Pharmaceutical advancements have been a wonderful asset to modern times but not all side effects are known by the consumers. College students are using Adderall to get high not for pleasure, but rather to focus in hopes of their academic…