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Language in 1984 - 'In dystopian fiction, language serves as both a…

- - - - Quote 1 - ‘ you haven’t a real appreciation of Newspeak’
        
        Analysis 1- Party manipulates society to believe that Newspeak is the only way to express emotions. Big Brother wants society to appreciate Newspeak and everything that it does. The word ‘ real’ shows people in society fully trusting the party with no question. In its morals. Newspeak has connotations off oppression and highlights the dystopian society.
      - Quote 3 - ‘ It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words’
        
        Analysis 3 - Words have the power to destruct the party’s control and language is the way they comunicate how to destroy the party. The word ‘ beautiful’ juxtaposes ‘ destruction’ and has connotations of death and the party’s control. Oldspeak has so much power as it shows hope and if there’s hope that’s the destruction of the Newspeak and Big Brothers power.
      - Quote 2 - ‘ goodness and badness will be covered by six words’
        
        Analysis 2 - Newspeak covers every emotion and action that the party believes is necessary to have in life. The party uses language to control society as if they don’t have a word for rebelling against the party they wouldn’t rebel. The party will have control because society doesn’t have a choice to rebel because they don’t know how to or how to describe what they wanted to do. Therefore party only has Newspeak to control society’s behaviour as they don’t have the option to rebel or do what the party doesn’t want.
      - AO3 - Nazi burning of books. The telescreens symbolise control within the party. The lancian theory as the gaze of others shapes people identity.
        
        AO5- They want to control people’s conscious and unconscious thoughts through language. The party runs of the Freudian concept of super ego , which explores the party’s best self, ego , which is the party’s actual self , and I.d which explores the animalistic side of the party and evokes emotions like anger and selfishness.
- - - - "'making a baby'" describes the act rather than the emotion or feelings related to it, taking away any pleasure or passion from the act, meaning everyone's sexual experience in Oceania will be the same, taking away individuality. "'our duty to the Party'" links everyone's sexual experiences in Oceania to the Party, which displays the Party's control over people, even in their most intimate moments. Controlling people's personalities means the Party take away individuality from the citizens.
        
        AO3: In Nazi Germany, women were awarded medals depending on the amount of children they bore: bronze for four, silver for six and gold for eight, with exemplary mothers being awarded the Honour Cross. This encouraged people to have sex and bear children for the Nazi's rather than for their own families, taking away the individuality of family. Furthermore Nazi children were indoctrinated in youth groups, further distancing them from their families and making them more like each other. In the late 1700s, in France, the birth of Romanticism and romantic poetry led to the French Revolution.
        
        A05: When individuality is taken away, and are united under one ideal or group, Group Theory takes place. Group Theory or Groupthink is when individuals act in the same way according to others actions. This has a duality, as it can either be utilised buy the Party to perpetuate allegiance to the Party, or can be used by the people to group together and rebel against the common enemy of the Party.
      - "what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent' or 'splendid' and all the rest of them.
        
        "words like 'splendid' and 'excellent'" provide individuality to speech, as there are many synonyms that some people will use and others won't. When individuality is taken away, such as through language in this instance, people are made to feel locked into a system and unable to escape from it.
      - "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER"
        
        By writing "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" Winston is able to express his ideas and thoughts of rebellion and criticisms of the Party without being arrested for 'Thoughtcrime'. This is the basis of revolution and rebellion for people in Oceania.
- - - - QUOTE 2 + ANALYSIS: 'Don't you see that the whole aim of newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?'
        through slimming the range of vocabulary it moulds an identity and creates a loss of individuality and freedom. In doing so, it makes people easier to control due to everyone having the same vocals. It also makes it easier to predict behaviour throughout the population and conveys an expectation on behaviour which normalises the form of behaviour that is constantly being carried out.
        
        QUOTE 3 + ANALYSIS: 'You haven't a real appreciation of Newspeak, Winston. He said almost sadly, Even when you write it you're still thinking in Oldspeak'
        Through reforming a language it makes it a quick and easy process to segregate and excludes those that are not devoted and loyal to the party. This is as well as the strict rules of the party which significantly oppress people which gives the public something to rebel against and promotes their resistance. Winston does this through writing in his diary about forbidden acts in Oldspeak. by changing the language it demolishes the risk of the parties down fall.
        
        AO5/ interpretations: Jaques Derrida + Lacan provide the theory that language shapes the mind so those that control language have a significant sense of control over each individual mind. This overall theory links to the main way in which Big Brother holds control over the public and prevents an uprising against his morals
        
        AO3/ context: Nazis wanted Germans to solely support the Nazi party and their ideals. The Nazis did this through controlling forms of communication through censorship and propaganda. They carried this out in many ways such as: Newspapers, magazines, books, art, theatre, music, films, radio.
        
        AO3/context: The Nazi book burning was a campaign conducted by the German Student Union in the 1930s. The books that were targeted for burning were those that were viewed as being subversive or those that represented ideologies that opposed Nazism. These included books written by Jewish, half-Jewish, communist, socialist, anarchist and many more
- - - - Quote 2 and analysis: 'Only the thought police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of exitance and out of memory' This quote emphasises the the party's absolute control over the historical memory and personal expression. It ensures that the thought police would be the only ones to see what Winston had written before getting rid of them, the party exerts pure dominance over him and renders any form of rebellion as pointless and transient. The systematic erasure is a powerful tool over controlling the society, as it eliminates both the possibility of historical record and the hoe of rebellion can make a long lasting affect.
        
        Quote 3 and analysis: 'it was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage' this quote reflects Winston's realization that in society where free expression is stifled, survival depends not on outward rebellion but on preserving one's inner sense if truth and humanity. By 'staying sane' Winston is referring to maintaining personal integrity and individual thought in the face of propaganda and ideological control. Orwell is suggesting that true rebellion lies in true resistance to the totalitarism regime lies in the preservation of mind and identity even when the ability to communicate or act upon dissent is restricted
        
        A03 and A05: John Locke viewed language as essential for communication and the development of knowledge. He believed that language played a crucial role in abstract thinking and the formation of general ideas which was essential for human intellectual interactions
- - - - AO3/CONTEXT: The repetitive nature of the slogan may have been inspired by Orwell's experience of consistent and everpresent propaganda in the Second World War, particularly that of the Soviets.. The repetitive slogans of the Soviet party, such as the oft-touted 'Workers of the World, Unite!' consistently reinforced the values and ideas of the Soviet government, creating a culture in which it was difficult to refuse or resist Soviet ideals. The repetitive nature, like the slogans of Oceania, made them difficult to resist.
      - AO5/Interpretations: Interpreted using a psychoanalytic approach like that of Michael Silverstein, who argued that evolutions in language over time create evolutions in our understandings of concepts, the party's manipulation of language could be seen as an attempt over time to erode the ideas of free thought, instead shaping the world into what the party wants it to be.
- - - - IDEOLOGICAL CONTROL: regimes like nazi germany and stalinist russia, forced citizens to reconcile or ignore contradictions in ideas and actions that were made by the regimes to maintain loyalty to the regime. Leaders like Stalin required citizens to accept fabricated or contradictory information such as sudden shifts in alliances or different attacking methods without question.
      - COGNITIVE DISSONANCE: created by leon festinger in the 1950s it describes the mental discomfort that occurs when a person holds two contradictory beliefs or engages in behaviourr that conflicts with their beliefs. to stop this, people either change their beliefs, justify their behaviour, or ignore the contradiction.
        this links to double think.