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This 4 page paper discusses Orwell's themes and discussion in regard to langauge. Freedom of speech is discussed in relation to the novel. Quotes cited from novel to support argument. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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ones language. In George Orwells novel, 1984, the language of the people has been severely curtailed. This has been done in order to move everyone into a collective frame of
living and existing. However, in achieving this, in limiting the use of free expression or language, mankinds most precious gift is sacrificed. In this book, Winston Smith, awakens from
a very bad dream and into a nightmare of a carefully controlled and manipulated, engineered society. The language is reflective and symbolic at the same time as can be seen
from the following excerpt: "The program of the Two Minutes Hate varied from day to day, but there was none in which Goldstein was not the principal figure. He
was the primal traitor, the earliest defiler of the Partys purity. All subsequent crimes against the Party, all treacheries, acts of sabotage, heresies, deviations, sprang directly out of his
teaching" (Orwell, 13). The Two Minute Hate, the Year of our Ford, and the Ministry of Truth are some of the
plays on language that Orwell utilizes in order to make the reader intuitively believe just the opposite of the literal words. With the exception of the Two Minute Hate( where
everyone gets the aggressive tendencies out of their system in a controlled fashion) the Ministry of Truth is really full of deceit, and the Year of our Ford is a
play on the words, year of our Lord. All of this suggests a replacement of the emotional and spiritual with the technical and industrial and Orwell hasnt had to explain
anything. The perversion of the words and phrases have done it all. And, in essence, he has made the point that when language is stifled, controlled, and manipulated, freedom
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