Newspeak

Introduction Comedian Penn Jillette is convinced that the joke is dead. The executioner? Political correctness and a heightened sensitivity to offending people. Jillette thinks that most of the best jokes have a sense of mean-spiritedness, and since mean-spiritedness is out, comedians are mostly limited to mediocrity. He says that, “You used to feel safer telling jokes. Since all your best material is mean-spirited, you feel less safe. You’re worried some might think you really have that type…

online-literature.com). The idea of being watched twenty-four hours a day imposed people to think and act in specific ways. The continuous monitoring lead most citizens to become nearly futile, and contravene in relation to their rights as human beings. Newspeak Dictionary simplistically identifies that there were “Telescreens in all public and private places, so the populace could be watched to prevent thoughtcrime” (http://www.newspeakdictionary.com). In this novel, the telescreens are…

Lincoln Electric’s Organizational Culture The Lincoln Electric Company (hereinafter referred to as, “Lincoln”) is a multinational corporation with operations in 19 countries, over ten-thousand employees, and a reported US$2.5 billion in 2015 net sales. Founded by John C. Lincoln in 1895, today the company is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio (USA) and one of the world’s largest manufacturers of welding equipment (Lincoln, 2016a; Lincoln, 2016b). Lincoln’s organizational culture has been the…

Eric Arthur Blair, more popularly known by his pen name, George Orwell; wrote more than 14 very popular books, with more than 30 million of some being sold. His influence can be seen in society and culture in many ways today (David Rooney, 2017). “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear” accurately reflects Blair’s mindset and reasoning behind writing. In his writing, he takes an uncommon perspective, and shows the dangers of…

Winston, and is not like any other women who is described in the book. While, rebelling, Julia is always thinking in the present tense; Winston is always looking to the past for guidance for the future. For instance, “he noticed that she never used Newspeak words, except the ones that had passed into everyday use. She had never heard of the Brotherhood, and refused to believe in its existence” (Orwell 131). Unlike Winston, Julia is very diligent and intelligent about how she chooses to fight…

Introduction I George Orwell’s 1984 is a precaution novel of today’s society. In the book, civilian’s lives are controlled, every move they make is monitored with surveillance technology. Today there is surveillance technology and as time goes by they are creating more. George Orwell explains how Big Brother has strict control over society just by the use of technology, in today’s society everyone is so revolved, who knows what is being exposed to our government. Surveillance/…

A 39 year old man by the name of Winston Smith is a part of the Outer party. Oceania has three social classes: the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the Proles. There are four ministries that the government is divided into: the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty. Winston writes in his diary about what had occurred that day and his thoughts about it, but is afraid that the Thought Police will find the journal he is writing in. Winston hears…

A true totalitarian government strips the people of their personal traits to fit the ideal standard. In 1984, the Party has created a new language called “Newspeak” which limits the amount of thoughts someone can have and ultimately limits the creative thoughts they can have. Anyone who commits “Thoughtcrime”, using ideas to become more than just a typical Party member, undergoes intensive torture to erase…

it the suggestion of abnormality of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called.” (Orwell 68). Winston would often go sit where he was out of range of the telescreen in his home, and write in his diary, all to avoid looking suspicious as he wrote down his forbidden thoughts. Looking innocent when…

the forest and the red-armed prole woman sing because they are free from the Party and the control and immorality that surround the members of the outer Party. The people of Oceania also “sing”- but they sing the party’s beliefs. Blackwhite is a newspeak word explained through Emmanuel Goldstein’s book as “a loyal willingness to say that black is white…and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary” (Orwell 212). The people will believe anything the…