84 by George Orwell is about a dystopian society called Oceania. Big Brother is the invisible leader of this society. TV screens monitor every movement of the outdoor group. The party consists of the inner party and the outer party. The Inner Party constitutes the highest class in society, followed by the Outer Party. The lowest class is that of the Proletarians. The proletarians are not monitored because the Inner Party considers them ignorant and does not consider them a potential threat. People are monitored to eliminate thoughtcrime (any unorthodox thinking). The new language of Oceania is Newspeak. The Party tries to simplify language to limit thinking. The Party also rewrites historical events in order to keep the past consistent with Big Brother's agenda. The main character, Winston, works to rewrite history. Winston and Julia (his lover) are against the government and join an underground revolution. Eventually, they are arrested and brought to the Ministry of Love (an organization that punishes crimes through torture and brainwashing). They are separated and tortured. Winston is tortured by a man named O'Brien. Winston is physically tortured when he is beaten and starved. Winston is mentally tortured when he is brainwashed into believing what Big Brother believes. After facing his greatest fear, Winston submits to O'Brien and abandons his revolutionary ideals. At the end of the book, Winston confesses his love for Big Brother. Two of the main themes of 1984 are the destruction of language and the power of language. In 1984, Orwell used Newspeak and the death of language to show that a person's thoughts are directly controlled by the language they use and that he who controls the language controls the future. Newspeak is the official language...... middle of paper. ....being reduced to a very simple level, Newspeak. Thoughts and language are directly correlated. Therefore, when language is simplified, so are thoughts. Overall, Newspeak "strives language to the bone" in order to eliminate thoughtcrime. The party destroys words to destroy thought. Since the words for something do not exist, it will be almost impossible to think about that object or idea. The party seeks and finds total domination by limiting language because this would give it control of thoughts. The party controls the language therefore it controls the present. The party controls historical documents, which is why it controls the past. “Whoever controls the past,” said the party slogan, “controls the future: whoever controls the present controls the past” (34). Works Cited Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet Classics, 1977. Print.

Essay / 84 by George Orwell is about a dystopian society called Oceania. Big Brother is the invisible leader of this society. TV screens monitor every movement of the outdoor group. The party consists of the inner party and the outer party. The Inner Party constitutes the highest class in society, followed by the Outer Party. The lowest class is that of the Proletarians. The proletarians are not monitored because the Inner Party considers them ignorant and does not consider them a potential threat. People are monitored to eliminate thoughtcrime (any unorthodox thinking). The new language of Oceania is Newspeak. The Party tries to simplify language to limit thinking. The Party also rewrites historical events in order to keep the past consistent with Big Brother's agenda. The main character, Winston, works to rewrite history. Winston and Julia (his lover) are against the government and join an underground revolution. Eventually, they are arrested and brought to the Ministry of Love (an organization that punishes crimes through torture and brainwashing). They are separated and tortured. Winston is tortured by a man named O'Brien. Winston is physically tortured when he is beaten and starved. Winston is mentally tortured when he is brainwashed into believing what Big Brother believes. After facing his greatest fear, Winston submits to O'Brien and abandons his revolutionary ideals. At the end of the book, Winston confesses his love for Big Brother. Two of the main themes of 1984 are the destruction of language and the power of language. In 1984, Orwell used Newspeak and the death of language to show that a person's thoughts are directly controlled by the language they use and that he who controls the language controls the future. Newspeak is the official language...... middle of paper. ....being reduced to a very simple level, Newspeak. Thoughts and language are directly correlated. Therefore, when language is simplified, so are thoughts. Overall, Newspeak "strives language to the bone" in order to eliminate thoughtcrime. The party destroys words to destroy thought. Since the words for something do not exist, it will be almost impossible to think about that object or idea. The party seeks and finds total domination by limiting language because this would give it control of thoughts. The party controls the language therefore it controls the present. The party controls historical documents, which is why it controls the past. “Whoever controls the past,” said the party slogan, “controls the future: whoever controls the present controls the past” (34). Works Cited Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet Classics, 1977. Print.

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