Doublethink

People’s lives are boring maybe that’s why they like to imagine a different world inside their heads. But maybe as a professional writer, George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984 to vent out the idea he had inside, which he wanted an outlet, and had the perfect medium to. For most of us, we always perceive the society as a “self-civilizing” process which would eventually lead us to a world with absolute justice. Philosophers in ancient Greek, Rome and China derived some early structures of…

There seems to be a divide among people if the Information Age represents a radical break from the Industrial age and the continuities between them. Both sides argue with different views and opinions pointing to the evidence. First, what makes the Information Age seem completely new are the innovation of technologies such as the Internet have allowed instant communication across distance as some call it the time-space compression where everyone can get the same-day information. Long-distance…

George Orwell 1984 George Orwell’s 1984 is about a man who conforms to a dystopian society and his journey throughout his life until he finally believes in all that the society stands for. In the beginning, he believes that Big Brother is a liar and everything created by the people is a fabrication because he is one of those individuals; deleting and rewriting what Big Brother says and has said. Then he meets another person who he thinks is like him but in reality he is being watched. He is…

condition in which highly cohesive groups in ‘hot’ decision situations display excessive levels of concurrence seeking that suppress critical inquiry and result in faulty decision making” (Aldag). Janis chose the name groupthink due to Orwell’s “doublethink” in 1984, a similar condition marked by the simultaneous acceptance of two contradictory beliefs. Groups with higher cohesiveness are generally more likely to suffer from groupthink. Janis asserted that “groupthink refers to a…

Impact and treatment of security threats in Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” International Security INTL800 Maxence Michaud-Daniel George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” dystopia not only served as a critic of totalitarian regimes but also as a “How to ensure security to sovereignty for dummies”. Indeed, Orwell’s masterpiece evokes all characteristics of totalitarian regime pushed to its extreme in order to fully control its people and assure total security in order to preserve…

when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink — greetings!” (Orwell 28) Winston wrote this quote in his diary to the people of the future. Winston has accepted the fact that Big Brother will be here the rest of his life. He still expresses hope in this quote though. It seems as if he…

loathe tyranny with such fullness” (Schorer, “When Newspeak Was New”). It becomes clear to Schorer that Nineteen Eighty-Four serves to criticize totalitarianism, as Orwell creates terms used to represent the limitation of thought, such as Newspeak, doublethink, and Thought Police, to demonstrate how the political system impedes on human rights. In Jeffrey Meyers’ George Orwell: The Criticial Heritage, critic Philip Rahv reviews Nineteen Eighty-Four and asserts that Orwell’s “attachment to the…

George Orwell, the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, was born in India in 1903 during the time when the country was under British colonial rule. He moved to England when he was very young, but being born in India during such a hard time for India caused him family many issues so he grew up with a less than satisfactory childhood. His place of birth might explain why he kept England as itself in 1984 when he gave all the other countries different names for the new dystopian world he created. He…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…