Title: Psychological Manipulation in 1984 – manipulationin1984
Headings: Psychological Manipulation in 1984
Psychological Manipulation in 1984
Examples of how psychological manipulation was used in 1984:
Big Brother
Falsification of Records
Newspeak
Hate Moments
Connection
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Content: Newspeak
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten.” ( Orwell 67)
Newspeak is a special language created by the Party with the intention of minimizing the chances of rebellion. Each time a word was used that influenced a thought of rebllion, it was then eliminated from the vocabulary, as if it had never existed. Newspeak is the only vocabulary in the world that grows smaller and smaller. It is used as a form of psychological manipulation as it is creates a language where it is essentially impossible to think about rebellion. Hate Moments
“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. […] A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic.” ( Orwell 16).