Title: Top 10 Terms from George Orwell's 1984 Novel - TheTopTens
Headings: Top 10 Terms from George Orwell's 1984 Novel
Top 10 Terms from George Orwell's 1984 Novel
Content: Top 10 Terms from George Orwell's 1984 Novel - TheTopTens
Top 10 Terms from George Orwell's 1984 Novel
There was no book that greatly influenced public perception on their government such as Orwell's 1984 book. The book is set in a dystopian world filled with three superpowers (Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia) that have been in a never-ending war against one another. The book features an oppressive totalitarian government that controls all aspects of their citizen's daily lives through the manipulation of knowledge thus blurring the lines between fiction and facts, and repression through the use of the state security apparatus by the Party. Written by a democratic socialist like Orwell as a critique of state totalitarianism, it has been banned in many nations because they feared that Orwell's 1984 work was subversive which goes to show that he was right in his work. This glossary list will showcase the terms Orwell had created or used in his 1984 book. Some of these words are in English or in "Newspeak" which I will explain later. The Top Ten
1 Newspeak
The official language of the superstate of Oceania and the Party. The language is conceived to reduce the words of the English language or "Oldspeak". It has limited vocabulary and restricted grammar with contracted words so that people would express their ideas as elementary as possible in order to restrict freedom of speech and expression that would otherwise go against the Party's contradicting doctrine and dogma. 2 "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength"
The best way I could put it is that the Party believed that they can maintain peace by continuing the war effort against the other superstates so that it could bind the populace together through ultranationalism, that any independent community would be unsuccessful due to their own misguided views and failures (thus being a slave to one's own instinct) without any guidance from a higher central authority, and that the Party tries to maintain societal order and stability by keeping their populace docile.