Doublethink

Every day and everywhere we go, we are faced with paradoxes, we might not recognize them because we are so used to them in our everyday lives. We encounter paradoxes in our social lives, at work, at school, and in general life. The more you fail, the more likely you are to succeed; The more you try to impress people, the less impressed they’ll be; these are some examples paradoxes that we face in our everyday lives. Maybe you've never thought about as to why we think this way and the reasons why…

Ministry of Peace, which is considered to be a part of the war, the Ministry of Love, which maintains law and order and the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs. The role that contradiction serves within the framework of Doublethink is that people believe that they are being protected and are free from all the chaos that is happening outside of their Ministry, but really, they are slaves themselves. They have to work and follow rules in order to be free, hence the…

Propaganda is an element used to mislead people and promote a certain point of view. This is a popular idea that is mostly seen as negative in our day and age. This idea is mostly utilized by government to lead people to believe what is not. George Orwell does a good job of using propaganda in his book 1984. Through various examples, Orwell gives readers a good idea of what propaganda looks like. It can be seen through party slogans that are seen everywhere, videos and images that are shown on…

being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain.’” For another example, “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”, an example of doublethink, is showing that the circumstances in which they lived in were pretty…

The governments have been monitoring us, every single move of us perhaps. Ever Since the incident of Edward Snowden broke out, one of those biggest fears in digital age seemed to have come out of hiding, making Hollywood fictions look like playhouse, scattering real suspicions and insecurities into minds. In a sense, it’s like a spectacular 3D film, except for being free of charge and without special glasses. A majority of us believed firmly, despite our occasional cravings for those “worst-case…

The "2+2=5" slogan occurred in George Orwell's book entitled "1984" referring to the control of the human mind by the Party. It symbolizes the psychological manipulation over people in order to create a false reality. The mathematical sentence is a slogan promoted by the Party as part of the dictatorship. In the short video, pupils in the classroom are forced to accept the fact that two plus two equals five according to the teacher's instructions. What's more, the constant repetition of the…

In the novel, 1984, by George Orwell, Winston Smith was having an illegal affair with a woman by the name of Julia. The relationship continued in “secret” for several months. Little did the two know, but they were being watched and followed by members of the thought police. Winston and Julia said that if they were ever caught, they would never betray the other. Once they are caught and separated, they are both tortured for months. Eventually Winston gave up Julia (Orwell). Now, I am being…

It has been shown that the novel, 1984, shows the hardship of living under the totalitarian rule of the Party. George Orwell wants to demonstrate to the people of Oceania that they are too blinded to realize that the government are actually taking control of their lives. They are too busy worshipping their beliefs and think that the Party can help their society prosper. But in return, the Party is actually playing the people’s mind to follow their views. As you see the Party uses propaganda and…

United States, it is interesting to look back on George Orwell's predictions from 1949. Many news sources have covered how 1984 is still relevant today and one article that appealed to me was by Lewis Beale of CNN. He describes how telescreens, doublethink, the endless war, newspeak and Memory holes have relevance in today's society. Lewis first explains how in the novel there are telescreens and how they monitor people's every step. Something similar is surveillance cameras. The government…

“ Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the preset controls the past.” The quote is a representation of what the party believes in. In the novel 1984, this quote is used to illustrate to the audience that the party controls its citizens and how this quote is also used as the Party’s slogan and what the Part represents. This is quote establishes a tone for the novel, which is darkness and illustrates to the audience that the party was falsifying the records and changing the…