Newspeak‚ it’s a beautiful thing according to Syme in George Orwell’s 1984. Newspeak is described as the destruction of words and creates a much smaller vocabulary with words that develop a sense of intelligence in the minds of citizens in Oceania. Syme enforces his idea about destroying language by creating an atmosphere which is very persuasive and is used to pull in Winston and ultimately attempt to convince him how there is beauty in destroying language. Orwell broadens Syme’s idea as intuitive
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Fake news has rapidly become a catchy term for discredited stories that drive opinions and behaviors. Newspeak‚ which is from the novel 1984‚ is false information or propaganda that is written by the government employees who take news stories and rewrite them. Newspeak also restricts vocabulary of the culture so that people don’t talk about certain topics. Fake news refers to false information or propaganda written by an outside source‚ not the government‚ which is published under catchy titles that
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the way they are shown in the novel. WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 4. What does the caption on the posters say? BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. 5. Name each of the Ministries and explain its function. Also include the Newspeak name for each ministry. The Ministry of Truth‚ or Minitrue‚ is concerned with news‚ entertainment‚ education‚ and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace‚ or Minipax‚ is concerned with war. The Ministry of Love‚ or Miniluv‚ maintains law and order
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The Nature of Control Is it the common human nature to feel power over others? A totalitarian government seeks to utilize its message of confinement and authority to control the many aspects of life. In the novel 1984‚ Orwell portrays totalitarianism through psychological manipulation‚ physical control and the control of language. The totalitarian party manipulates and invalidates the minds of the outer party and proles. Orwell describes the surroundings of Winston‚ showing totalitarianism‚ writing:
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Inner Party‚ in a land called Oceania. This totalitarian government has ideology called INGSOC‚ which it uses to obtain complete power. Within this ideology there are the Four Sacred Principles. They are: the mutability of the past‚ doublethink‚ newspeak‚ and the denial of objective reality. All four of these methods are intertwined and are used together‚ by the Inner Party‚ to achieve their ideology of INGSOC and to acquire absolute control over the people living in Oceania. The first Sacred Principle
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Texts in their Time essay A text is a mirror for the concerns of a time and place. Orwell’s “1984”and the Wachowski brother’s “Matrix” can be viewed as a mirror into the concerns of a time and place. “1984” depicts how a hierarchical world tyranny is set up‚ how it stays in power‚ how it treats people and what life is like living under such a system. The “matrix” is also a representation of how the world as ‘we’ know it can be manipulated into the unknown or changed to suit the ideology of one
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Research proposal THE PARTY HEGEMONY AND SURVEILLANCE IN GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR [pic] submitted by: Rudi Fitrianto G1A006164 NATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PROGRAM DEPARTEMENT OF HUMANITY FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN UNIVERSITY PURWOKERTO 2012 1. Title of the research The Party Hegemony and Surveillance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four 2. Field of the study
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was written by a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period‚ and is one of the greatest stories of an anti-utopian society ever. Nineteen Eighty-Four was not written solely as an entertaining piece of literature or as a dream of what the future could be like‚ it was written as a warning of what could happen as a result of communism and totalitarianism. This was not necessarily a widely popular vision of the future at the time of publication‚
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1984 By George Orwell Questions Jayson Papa 1. Re read pages 3-6 and describe the setting/atmosphere in your own words The first few chapters of 1984 are devoted to introducing the major characters and themes of the novel. These chapters also acquaint the reader with the harsh and oppressive world in which‚ Winston Smith lives in. It is from Winston’s perspective that the reader witnesses the brutal physical and psychological cruelties brought upon the people by their government. The
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Newspeak is the official language of Oceania. It was created to neutralize the possibilities of any rebellious thoughts. Newspeak doesn’t contain any negative words. For example‚ to express the word ‘bad’ it would be said as ‘ungood’. Newspeak’s grammar is arranged so that any word can serve as any part of speech‚ and there are three different groups of vocabulary words. The particularities of Newspeak make it impossible to translate a majority of older
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