Essays
First paragraph:
The Party's control over language can be seen through Winstein's job, slogans, and Newspeak. In George Orwell's novel, 1984, (italicize 1984) the reader is taken to a world controlled fully and solely by the government. The setting takes place in London after a big revolution. The government not only controls every civilian in London, Oceania, but everything they see, eat, read, and even think. People work in different government buildings to help Big Brother with these controlling acts of dictatorship.
Second:
(italicize the word Times)
Control of language can be seen through the main character, Winstein Smith's, job. There, he rewrote many of the Times "...because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother.." (Orwell 45). Winstein received written instructions which told him what to rephrase or who to create as to convince the public that Big Brother was the good guy in every situation.Once changed, Winstein was to drop the old copy, along with his instructions of what to change, into a memory hole. Memory holes are a security blanket to the Party- they ensure that anything that could be used against Big Brother was destroyed. At the bottom of the memory hole was a controlled fire that extinguished everything thrown into it. Therefore, all the original copies Winstein changed from titles, to paragraphs, to pictures were no where to be found. Those who kept them were caught and put to death, or mysteriously disappeared. The new and approved rewritten or revised copy would be published and saved, unless things changed. Then, in that case, they were taken out and revised again. From Winstein's little cubicle, to slogans, the Party's control over language to control the population is found frequently throughout the novel.
Third:
(italicize 1984)
Today, slogan's are seen everywhere- on t.v., in magazines, on billboards, even on posters in the bathroom. There is no escape from them! In 1984,
The Party's control over language can be seen through Winstein's job, slogans, and Newspeak. In George Orwell's novel, 1984, (italicize 1984) the reader is taken to a world controlled fully and solely by the government. The setting takes place in London after a big revolution. The government not only controls every civilian in London, Oceania, but everything they see, eat, read, and even think. People work in different government buildings to help Big Brother with these controlling acts of dictatorship.
Second:
(italicize the word Times)
Control of language can be seen through the main character, Winstein Smith's, job. There, he rewrote many of the Times "...because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother.." (Orwell 45). Winstein received written instructions which told him what to rephrase or who to create as to convince the public that Big Brother was the good guy in every situation.Once changed, Winstein was to drop the old copy, along with his instructions of what to change, into a memory hole. Memory holes are a security blanket to the Party- they ensure that anything that could be used against Big Brother was destroyed. At the bottom of the memory hole was a controlled fire that extinguished everything thrown into it. Therefore, all the original copies Winstein changed from titles, to paragraphs, to pictures were no where to be found. Those who kept them were caught and put to death, or mysteriously disappeared. The new and approved rewritten or revised copy would be published and saved, unless things changed. Then, in that case, they were taken out and revised again. From Winstein's little cubicle, to slogans, the Party's control over language to control the population is found frequently throughout the novel.
Third:
(italicize 1984)
Today, slogan's are seen everywhere- on t.v., in magazines, on billboards, even on posters in the bathroom. There is no escape from them! In 1984,