Newspeak

only way to achieve peace is by controlling the people. The government uses propaganda, Technology, and surveillance in order to maintain control and therefore peace. Propaganda is a big part on how they control the citizens. The party uses the newspeak dictionary, Hate week, and Comrade ogilvy. The news speak dictionary is made so that there is no deep and meaningful words.(Orwell, pg 51) He was one of the enormous…

How Things Could’ve Been Different In the Dystopian Novel, “1984” by George Orwell, there are multiple assets that changes the lives of many people, in their personality and the ways of how they live. Their way of life is being destroyed due to the iron fist of a godly figure named, “Big Brother”. The methods that are being used, were odd, but at the same time, undignified. In this dystopian “society [,] itself is typically the antagonist; it is society actively working against the…

George Orwell was a famous author most known for his works Animal Farm and 1984. In these books, Orwell makes it very clear what point he is trying to convey. Orwell is stating his opinion on Russia under communist rule during the Stalin era. Animal Farm was published in 1945 and 1984 was published in 1849. During this time in Russia, Stalin was in power and had carved Russia in his image. Orwell bases Animal Farm and 1984 in the image of Stalin’s Russia and the shows the repercussions of…

Today we are fortunate to live in a world where we can enjoy the right to strength, democracy and freedom. Different from the novel George Orwell’s novel 1984, the government today respects our opinion as part of the own good for the country. As citizens is crucial to have access to information, having a good range of knowledge. As well to have a good understanding accountability on the steps that our governments make to benefit the place where we live because without that someone can have the…

To Russell in order for something to be true it has to be able to be expressed in the form of a sentence in some possible language, no matter if it’s a new language (Newspeak) or one that hasn’t been invented yet. A sentence is important in order for us to do a statement and create beliefs. Every sentence has a truth-value which is the capacity to be true or false. However, the goal of a sentence is to be truth. The importance…

Extra Credit Essay Review of Article: The Shame Culture In his article, The Shame Culture, David Brooks discusses how society, especially the American college campus, has transitioned from a culture of moral relativism to a culture of moral judgement. According to the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, moral relativism is, “the view that moral judgements are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others,” (Internet…

1984 In 1984, George Orwell warns future generations about the dangers of a totalitarian state. Orwell depicts a government that has total control of public problems as well as individual problems. The citizens of Oceania, as a result, ultimately do not have control over their thoughts and actions. This loss of agency is significant because it reflects the anxieties generated by the geopolitical and historical factors present in Orwell’s time, specifically the rise and fall of Nazism and the…

The official language of Oceania, Newspeak, is a concept used by Orwell to support the public acceptance of governmental control as demonstrated throughout the text. The development of the new language by the Party allows for limitations to be placed on the words of the English language,…

Animal Farm and Oceania lost their ability to think beyond the propaganda fed to them, blindly accepting it as reality. Language and thinking are so tightly interwoven, so interdependent, that you cannot have one without the other. But in 1984, Newspeak was designed “‘to narrow the range of thought’” (pg. 52). It was the Party’s instrument for curtailing complex language, and therefore thinking. Once it was in use, people lacked the words and concepts needed to reflect on their lives,…

Innovative novels, much like significant events and notable people, are capable of providing inspiration for artists in their works of pop culture. One of these novels, Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, has contributed ideas that have been replicated and referenced in many modern works of cultural art, ranging from dystopian television shows to songs. Many artists use these references to apply Orwell's arguments to modern events, holding testament to the truly innovative nature of Nineteen…