Newspeak

act as if they were puppets and the government was orchestrating all the moves of its people. For example; Big Brother, the name for the 1984 government, hand picked certain books for the citizens of Oceania to read. The books choose where only in newspeak and made to make Big Brother look good. The books had no way for human instincts and feelings to interact with characters in a plot…

Drew Kwiatkowski English IV Honors Mrs. Schroder 26 April 2018 Betrayal / Loyalty The battle between Loyalty and betrayal in 1984 rests within all the characters who lives in Oceania. Winston bobbles between these two throughout the novel. His opinion is one way throughout most of the novel but changes by the end of the book. It’s difficult to stay on one side or the other because there are consequences for each side. Living in Oceania is a life of no freedom nor privacy. Oceania is a dystopia…

Both texts are effectively able to present a dystopian vision of life in a society based on inequality and conformity and are heavily influenced by their respective contexts to help the composers shape their visions of the future. George Orwell’s satirical presentation of power in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is far more bleak and shows the extreme physical and psychological control of the masses and is able to present a pessimistic future for humanity to a great extent. However, Fritz Lang…

crowded, houses falling to pieces, bread dark-colored, tea a rarity, coffee filthy-tasting, cigarettes insufficient - nothing cheap and plentiful except synthetic gin” (Orwell, 59). Furthermore, Airstrip One and Oceania’s official language is that of Newspeak, which is derived from the English language and has hundreds upon thousands of words removed or…

Horrible Government The book 1984 by George Orwell and the movie Divergent by are a great example of a dystopian society. A dystopian society is not the kind of place you dream of in a fairy tale. Dystopias are horrible places where there is a leader who tries to control their people with force and mind games. The definition of a dystopian society is an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid, because they are not treated fairly (Merriam-Webster). 1984 and Divergent are two…

measurable physical harm. Under this traditional definition of violence, murder and war are violent; verbal slurs, rude utterances, and inadvertently offensive comments are not. However, the PC Police claim that these acts are also, in fact, violent, in a newspeak-esque redefinition of the term. A recent email, sent on behalf of the…

In order to ensure the safety of the citizens of the United States of America, the US government should be allowed to surveill its citizens under the correct circumstances. After the bombing of the World Trade Center in September of 2001, security measures have been put in place in order to prevent similar events from happening. A person’s digital property should be subject to the same rules and regulations as their physical property. Of course this doesn’t mean watching every waking move, like…

“Big Brother is Watching you”: Examining the Party Watching the Citizens in 1984 Being Compared to our World Today In George Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith is battling with Oceana and ultimately Big Brother throughout the book.. The party is always examining all the people on every move they make with the telescreen. Winston thinks he found a safe place in Mr. Charrington's upstairs room for Julia and him to hang out together but he rats out Julia and Winston. Winston tries to stay loyal to not…

The most compelling character was O’Brien, as he creates a facade to trick Winston into believing he is part of a rebel group known as The Brotherhood. The ominous feeling and intelligence O’Brien portrays allow him to convince Winston and quite easily gain his trust as a member against The Party, the symbol of government. O’Brien, working as an inner member of The Party, acts as a spy. Orwell depicts O’Brien to show that Winston is not alone in his idea of a revolution. When the two characters…

1984 Novel Project. George Orwell published his dystopian novel 1984 in 1949. 1984 is set in Airstrip One, which is a province in Oceania, one of the three superstates that Orwell created for the book. Oceania is littered with war, heavy government surveillance, and public manipulation. Winston Smith is a member of the Outer Party, he works within the system of Big Brother. His job is to re-write history in order to fool the public and make them more supportive of the totalitarian politics.…