Title: In 1984, what are the three sacred principles of Ingsoc? - eNotes.com
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In 1984, what are the three sacred principles of Ingsoc?
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The three sacred principles of Ingsoc are Newspeak, doublethink, the mutability of the past. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania and the totalitarian regime's attempt to alter human thought and completely eradicate political dissent. Each year, the Newspeak dictionary becomes smaller and smaller as government agents delete adjectives and incendiary words while they combine opposite words that can be used to describe contradicting thoughts. The illogical Newspeak words directly connect to the second principle of doublethink, which is the ability to believe two contradicting ideas simultaneously and accept whatever information the Party declares. The Party attempts to control reality via the practice of doublethink. Essentially, the Party can make false, contradictory claims and the public with fully accept, believe, and embrace the information by practicing doublethink. The third principle is the mutability of the past, which is the government's ability to continually alter historical documents that favor their current policies. One of the Party's slogans reads,
Who controls the past . . . controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. (