The fundamental idea of Newspeak is revealed clearly through its aim to eradicate all shades of meaning, conceptualized in the form of language. ... The word ungood in Newspeak takes the suffix of good and forces in a negation of "Un" to express all range of thought that is negative. ... Newspeaks aim is to achieve obedient patriotism through the convection of language. ... Eradicating words which express negativity and influence any thoughts besides those of Big Brother and Ingsoc have been flushed out. ... It cannot express complex ideas into simple washed out terms. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Orwell uses allegory to help express his concerns regarding his twentieth century context in a way that is clearly understood by his audience. ... As an allegory aims to critique certain individuals or events, readers can review the subject being criticized and develop a better understanding of it. ... Orwell successfully uses anthropomorphism to express the characteristics of both the people and the organizations involved in the Russian Revolution, with his characters exhibiting similar traits to those they are intended to represent. ...

• Word Count: 849
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 494
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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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• Grade Level: High School

Winston expresses his feelings on what the people around him know about the world around them, best when he writes the following statement in his journal, "until they become conscious they will never rebel and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." ... Thus making the coming war illegal, remember the absence of any real laws aimed at protecting the public in 1984. ...

• Word Count: 1142
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate