(p. 4) The Party's aim is to demolish any potential unorthodoxy by destroying the language, history and culture of Oceania so that there will be no questioning of The Party's intentions. " Don't you see that the while aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible because there will be no works in which to express it there's no excuse for committing thoughtcrime. ... The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. " (p.55)They even go so far as to destroy words which could express thoughtcrime ...

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What the animals seem to have aimed for was a utopian sort of communism, where each would work according to their ability, respecting the needs of one another. ... So, it seems as though the revolution was doomed from the beginning, even though it began in naive hopefulness as expressed by the motto, "no animal must ever tyrannize over his own kind. ...

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Totalitarianism differs from dictatorship or tyranny in its mobilization of political participation, its quest for the complete restructuring of both the individual and society, and its aim for unlimited, not just political, control. ... In the novel emotions cannot be freely expressed because the propaganda directs the feelings the people feel. ...

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words? What are reactions to slogan? Does it make you question your freedom, or does it make you feel confined to the world around you? These are a few of the reactions that crossed my mind as I read this , "1984" written by Orwell. This novel raises a lot of issues everyone should have but how true...

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Two Minutes of Hate, is a daily ritual, is where Party members watch a film showing the Party's enemies (especially Emmanuel Goldstein) and express their hatred for them. ... Syme states, "don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought crime 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...The Revolution will be complete when...

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Language is ultimately a fruit of human desire to express one self. ... People generally strive to expand their lexicon, the government in Nineteen Eighty-Four actually aims to cut back the Newspeak vocabulary. ... Burgess express Alex's violence in a comical way, he does this with nadsat. ...

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The aim of Newspeak is to eliminate any unnecessary words. ... Following this through, if the words you want to use to express your feelings are removed then your feelings themselves will have to be altered too. ...

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The language is Newspeak and it is "compressed into brief, highly reductive, definite sounding phrases, easily memorized and easily expressed." ... The aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought. ... (Orwell 47) The whole aim behind Newspeak is to load one word with so many meanings, which becomes impossible to use effectively. ...

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SETTING The novel is set in Oceania, a superstate that includes the continent of America and the British Isles. Most of the action takes place in London. The other setting is the village of Paddington, which is not very far from London. In addition, there are two other superstates with...

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In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was founded on the ideals of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much l...

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