Doublethink

George Orwell’s novel 1984 is about a highly oppressive authoritarian regime that controls the actions and thoughts of the people. This novel led to the term Orwellian, which describes the government in the novel. The word Orwellian has become synonymous with authoritarian, however, Orwellian does not mean the oppressive rule of people. The word authoritarian only encompasses an oppressive government with all power, but does not encompass all the qualities in an Orwellian government. Orwellian…

Love is not easily seized and it is not easily broken. Love is an emotion that humans always have control over even if they were being oppressed in other ways. Love has always fostered hope for people in the face of fear and allowed them to look forward to a better day. In the Soviet Union, in Communist China, and even in Nazi Germany, love could not be changed and was something that people of those nations were free to practice on their own. But this was not the case in Oceania, and Orwell made…

The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919, forcing Germany to pay reparations for World War I, catalysing hyperinflation and accentuating class divisions. Lang establishes this social hierarchy through the juxtaposition of the triumphant music of the Eternal Gardens, with the melancholy music and darker lighting of the underground. Hence, he employs mise-en-scene in the long shot of the workers drudging, their slumped body language manifesting the extent of their oppression; yet Lang reveals…

The novel is written in a dark, melancholic, and nightmarish mood, having a “black-and-white” air. It is written with an austere style of a monotonous-sounding prose. Overall, the environment is implied as dreary-looking, as seen from Winston’s eyes. As a matter of fact, the plot setting is simply a fictitious version of mid-1950’s geopolitical map. Just as the actual history saw three spheres of influence dominate the world, namely the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was the…

the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” The biggest idea of how they with controlling people and stopping the people from rebelling, by using doublethink, as the book says “All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory”, by using the idea of doublethink. (1.3.18). Changing how you think of the world, going by the idea if you think of something as true even though it is not and every else tells you it is true you will believe it…

The way they get them to believe them is by torture. “Reality is consensus. By controlling minds (torture, doublethink, propaganda) and preventing anyone from being able to disprove it(change history, destroy evidence of any other possibility, control their minds.)” “The party is able to mold consensus and thus reality to their liking.” says O’brien. As humans…

It evokes the sense that this woman was born on the streets, inherited the ‘position,’ and will die on the streets. It also hints that she is there because she was designated to be there and will have no help to leave that job. Swift’s use of ‘doublethink’ and self-contradicting terms contributes to the rich satirical context of this piece as it enhances the underlying significance of his words and provokes thought upon the subject.…

Modern Propaganda and Aphorisms Orwell tells us a story of a dystopian world where all the civilians do not experience freedom. On top of that, the civilians are constantly told what to do by the party. There is a nonstop onslaught of media information and participation from the citizenry. "Without any sense of individual fairness, people work for the party just like the gear wheels in a machine" (Paulechoislandchang). The independence takes part unknowingly in the operation of the machine.…

them into their beliefs thus censoring those indoctrinated. The book 1984 has the most extreme form of censorship compared to all of the other texts. The society of 1984 have been indoctrinated into the regime in order to believe a perform doublethink. Doublethink is the act of changing one's belief and forgetting their past belief. This is shown through how the Department of Truth has to rewrite all documents involving the past to present what is currently the truth such as what countries are…

In some contexts, ambiguous messages are definitely unethical. I don’t consider ambiguity in personal relationships to be severely unethical, because minor noise disruption in the transactional model and homonym usage, language disparity, etc. is normally expected. However, when looking at communications on an international scale, ambiguity can lead to disastrous results in foreign relations and the trust placed in governments by their country’s people. The novelist George Orwell, who wrote…