I did my take-home quiz on how the language in 1984 is completely different than the language we just today. In 1984 they constantly try to make words smaller by cutting out the subsidiary words that go along with them. "Don't you se that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be express by EXACTLY one word" (1984 p.52). The thought of just using one word to describe many different events in our lives seems to cut back on many of thing that we enjoy. An example that comes to mind is the description of nature. By just saying that our natural world around us is just "good" leaves out so much of the real beauty that it really holds.
The other thing that really stuck out to me was the way George Orwell brings love into this novel. Julia and Winston make covert plans in order for the to meet in secrete places, away from the eyes of the "Inner Party." I do not understand how people could possibly be happy in a place were marriage is controlled. Also, the idea of how she must express her love to Winston and the fact that he becomes stimulated by that fact that she has been with many people strikes me as interesting. That scary part is that the world that we live in today, is very comparable to the world portrayed in 1984.
The end of the book really brings out the truth of the what it really is about. In the end Winston gives into the Party. This strikes me as scary because Orwell is predicting that is what we will do ourselves to our government. When you really think about the book those who rebel against either die or become brainwashed. There is only one individual in that society and that is The Party.
I really like how you brought the fact that a world where marriage is controlled would be in a way, an unhappy place. Not many people realize how important it is to have a connection such as marriage and I believe that is why Orwell depicted life like that in his book. Because the whole society in 1984 was unhappy.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that the life in 1984 is very similar to today's. I found it interesting in the novel when Orwell writes how by 2050 what our world would be like. I think we are almost there. I think it's pretty amazing that he could predict they predicted it back then and it's almost true today.
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