Examples Of Double Thinking In 1984 By George Orwell

“It was not easy to preserve inscrutability when you did not know what your face looked like. In any case, mere control of the features was not enough. For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name. From now onwards he must not only think right; he must feel right, dream right. And all the while he must keep his hatred locked up inside of him like a ball of matter which was part of himself and yet unconnected with the rest of him, a kind of cyst” (Orwell, 231).

In 1984, George Orwell’s choice of negative connotations, verbs, and figures of speech clearly set the stage for a nightmarish narrative. Orwell distinctly uses negative connotations to support the nightmarish mood found in 1984. Orwell applies the word “escape” (Orwell 3), creating a vision of Winston trying to avoid some kind of danger or threat. The threats that a person fails to see coming are often the most dangerous. Next, Winston, a thirty-nine-year-old man with a “varicose ulcer”(Orwell 3) is continuously struggling.

In our world, everything we do is monitored. Nothing we do goes unseen. Our world demonstrates the idea of an Orwellian society. The book 1984 by George Orwell shows a society that is a perfect example for this idea. The Stanford experiment, the documentary 10 Days in North Korea, and the Milgram experiment each represent a great example of an Orwellian society.

George Orwell's 1984 What look on humanity and human nature, if any, can be seen through this book, 1984?

Everyday we are all in trying to be persuaded into believing something using media and the government, as don’t in George Orwell’s novel, 1984 manipulation is used by the government to persuade the citizens that their leader, Big Brother, is portraying to be. For which ever reason information is manipulated, it is still a form of attempting to persuade opinions. In many forms people manipulate information in hopes that they will gain something, whether it be to gain power or to try and convince people that something or someone is correct. September 11th 2001 is one of the most terrifying, tragic, and most talked about days in the history of the United Sates. Although the official story was given out to the public many people question the

Our actions are free, right? Everyone can decide what they want to eat, where they want to go, or what they do during the day. But are these actions truly free? We are constantly under the bombardment of manipulation in the form of advertising, bright colors, and promises too good to be true. When we are so used to seeing this manipulation from day to day, we start to notice it and resist it.

In the novel, “1984” by George Orwell the human mind is challenged. The human mind consists of consciousness, emotions, memories, and many other things people experience. During the novel Orwell displays the nature of a human’s mind when it is forced to have certain beliefs and perceptions; free will is not an option. Within the novel, the country is ruled by totalitarianism. The protagonist refuses to let Big Brother (the superior force) control his thoughts, memories, actions, or beliefs.

Why do people that hate each other so much work better together than people who love each other? People who love each other never get the job done it seems, but people that hate each other get the job done fast and efficiently, have you ever wondered why? You may say maybe they get it done so fast just to get it over with so they don’t have to work side by side anymore, but maybe it might be because they take their work seriously and rather work together side by side rather than do it alone and fail. In George Orwell’s Novel 1984 the society they live in is based on hate yet it survives because they hate their ruler so much they end up confusing it with love and they become loyal under Big Brother's watchful eyes, fighting to please him and continue with his bidding. If any one person in the society is to express their hate for him they are sent to a place like a prison or more like a reform center to learn to disguise their hatred again by basically confusing the people into thinking they love him they manipulate their minds and they create a loyal subject once again, this is why I believe a society based on hate can survive because can easily be confused for love and hate can make a loyal person besides their negative feelings for the society.

Being confined within rules and boundaries sends some people into mass chaos. To rebel is to go with your own instinct, which ends up opposing someone else. Comfort zones for a government is taking the easy way out and playing it completely safe, scratching the surface of our personal rights and freedoms. A government that tends to take control and possession of their people is a government that does not let free will and freedom thrive and take its place within that specific country. Within the two pieces of literature, 1984 and Divergent both have a government that wants all control for themselves.

Written to warn the future of what may come ahead, George Orwell’s 1984 beautifully conveys the detrimental effects of an oligarchical dictatorship. The novel’s province of Oceania consists of constant surveillance by the government, unrelenting manipulation, and ultimate subordination to the state of the citizens. Following main protagonist Winston Smith, 1984 illustrates the control and manipulation the government party has over humanity by utilizing “Doublethink”.

What is doublethink? Orwell describes doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.'; In 1984, doublethink is the normal way of thought, and as a result everyone understands it and practices it. Doublethink is different from changing ones mind, lying, and self-deception in many ways. Doublethink involves believing in the two contradictory ideas at the same time. This is different from lying because lying is saying something that is wrong and knowing that it is wrong but still saying it anyway. For example lets say you broke a vase. When your mother asks you who broke the vase and you say the dog did it that would be lying. The reason it is not

Orwell’s opinion of power tearing people to pieces is a strong remark to saying that people with power don’t know how to properly use it, or can change the minds of people. In this novel we see that the most power comes from the people in the ‘‘Party’. These people seem to abuse the power they have and seem as though the “Party” breaks down turning into three different ones. This makes a turmoil between who is right and who is wrong thus making it to where we talk about how the people begin to doublethink. When people doublethink it starts to take a toll on people’s mind making them accept every opinion even the ones that are wrong.

The Book 1984 was written by George Orwell shortly after W.W.II. I think this book really shows us what would happen if the government gets too powerful. It was written long ago and set in the future, but I feel like the message is still very relevant today.

Complete control over a society can brainwash the citizens into believing the government laws and ways of life are normal. George Orwell's 1984 portrays a Utopian society in which the people of Oceania are blind to the world outside the controlling party. Reality control and surveillance of the citizens plays an important role in 1984 by George Orwell because of the negative Utopia that is illustrated by the use of paradox, symbolism, and imagery.

Hopelessness, deep and gaping ever lasting hopelessness. If the course of humanity fails to change, to this everyone will succumb. That is the message that George Orwell has left for the future, and it would be in humanity's best interest to heed. Winston Smith of 1984 lived in a world that had been consumed by the everlasting abyss of injustice. Eventually this world became too much for our hopeful protagonist and thus, like the future that is bound to a horrific fate, he succumbed. “It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it” (Orwell 248). No one in this world is any different than Winston, they will follow his path like all of those before them, following the five stages of Kübler-Ross. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance make up the cycle that every feeble life will follow and that Winston grew to know all too well.