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: The Party can manipulate language to be whatever they need it to be. Strong writes, “The society of Oceania required that Love and Hate, War and Peace be synonymous: it was necessary there to be able to say them both with no feeling of moral contradiction. For such purposes, one needed a language with which to talk of them” (248). The Party invents Newspeak for this purpose, and the Party rewrites any sort of print so that it fits the needs of society. The Party needs to be able to control the past, present, and future if they are to have absolute power. “’ Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past’” (Orwell 36). The Party will literally destroy all history that is written and they will replace it with their own history, making it so that the history that happened before never existed. When the Party decides that Oceania is at war with Eastasia instead of Eurasia, everyone in the Records Department is required to destroy all documentary evidence for the war with Eurasia.