Title: The Use of Language to Control People in 1984: [Essay Example], 2835 words GradesFixer
Headings: The Use of Language to Control People in 1984
The Use of Language to Control People in 1984
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Content: we change them” (Orwell 261). The party believes that simply forcing the citizens to act a certain way is not enough, because their aim is power. “ Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing” (276). Before Winston and Julia have their experience in the Ministry of Love they are not controlled by absolute power because they still have freedom in their minds. Winston mentions that a man owns just the small space inside of his head. Winston and Julia thought that they had some hope in being against the Party but once the Party got hold of their minds, that hope was lost. “’ They can’t get inside you, she had said.’ But they could get inside you” (301). As soon as the Party has control over the mind of a man, they control the entire man. In The Abuse of Power in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four Bryfonski writes, “By taking away freedom of speech and by weakening the desire for intellectual freedom through socialization, the space inside the skull becomes not a temple of privacy and liberty, but a void” (127).