The Word War II also affected him very much indeed. Orwell was against the war because he thought it would lead to some kind of fascism in England. To him it was a repetition of Spain where some people during the civil war wanted to fight Franco in the name of bourgeois democracy. He thought that Totalitarian societies and specially the one portrayed in the novel wanted to turn humans into machines, to replace the organic by the inorganic, to create synthetic happiness by eradicating all that may evoke natural passions and personal inclinations.
They want in this single state all buildings have walls of glass so that the actions of the occupants are visible. Only during sex are the curtains drawn for a brief moment, sexual behaviour being strictly controlled by the Sexual Bureau.
This soulless society is ruled by a dictator, the Benefactor, who is supported and helped by a political police who in this case would be The Big Brother , the Guardians, that hover above the cities with surveillance equipment. Confessions are extracted by torture and criminals are simply liquidated. Informing, even on family members and friends, is a sacred duty. This is basically what is about Ninenteen-eighty-Four ; but what is important here is the way they achieve so, the way they get to control people.
Orwell believed that totalitarianism and the corruption of language were connected. He focused especially on political language where you distorted events and concepts by calling them something else. You said things in such a way that you avoided producing an inner picture of them. As an example, in Politics and the English Language. This mentioned forms of manipulation are harder to fight against because they are aimed at the mind.
First, the entire system is based on falsification of history — for two purposes. Outwardly the Party is infallible and is forced to change all information when it has been wrong in some connection or other. The falsification of history takes place in the Ministry of Truth where Winston works. Of course he knows what he is really doing, but that does not worry him because so many changes have already been made that he is just replacing one lie with another. The second purpose is to eradicate memory from the minds of people.
The only reason why people put up with their miserable conditions is that they have been told that it was much worse before the revolution.
And as no correct information about the past exists, nobody knows if it is true. If control of language was centralized in a political agency, Orwell proposes, such an agency could possibly alter the very structure of language to make it impossible to even conceive of disobedient or rebellious thoughts, because there would be no words with which to think them. This idea manifests itself in the language of Newspeak, which the Party has introduced to replace English.
When it is necessary to manipulate with history and your own memory it is equally necessary to forget that you have done so.
This is accomplished with a mental technique, which in Oldspeak was called reality-control and in Newspeak is called doublethink:. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania and its purpose is to fulfil the ideological demands of Ingsoc.
In no one employs Newspeak as the only means of expression, but it is expected that Newspeak will have replaced Oldspeak around year Newspeak consists of abbreviations, and Orwell writes in his Appendix to Nineteen Eighty-Four on Newspeak that already early in the twentieth century abbreviations were part of political language. It was especially widespread in totalitarian countries and organisations. From a totalitarian viewpoint the advantage of abbreviations like these is that their meaning is limited and altered so that all associations are removed.
The purpose of Newspeak is not only to be a medium for the ideas and worldview of Ingsoc; it is also meant to make all other ways of thinking impossible and thus remove all heretical thoughts. In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.
Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. At a point Winston writes in his diary that he understands how but not why. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. The individual only has power if he ceases to be an individual.
Alone and free man will always suffer defeat. It has to be this way because man is mortal. But if the individual can subject himself completely, if he can escape from his identity, if he can let himself be engulfed so much by the Party that he is the Party, then he is all-powerful and immortal.
Next, you have to realise that power is power over people, over the body and especially over the mind. The Thought Police have telescreens in every household and public area, as well as hidden microphones and spies in order to catch potential thought criminals who could endanger the sanctity of the Party. Children were carefully brainwashed from birth to report any suspected thought criminal, even their parents. Newspeak is a fictional or artificial language.
By means of the creation of this newspeak, what they want to achieve is a language that does not allow any bad though or even contrary to the Party. By eliminating any thought contrary to the Party they make sure that they all love it and cannot destroy it. The Newspeak term for the existing English language was Oldspeak. Oldspeak was supposed to have been completely eclipsed by Newspeak by But then think about the text-talk rule of shortening words and it becomes clear that the word "totes" is replacing the already overused word "totally.
According to urbandictionary. Saying "totes" instead of "totally" saves them about Think of all the things they can do with that extra Not only will they seem unprofessional when using text-talk outside of a text message, but they will seem lazy, immature and unintelligent. Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping.
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