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George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty Four is a story about how life was to be in the year 1984. Although life is not how Orwell portrayed it to be, living in the present century is not far off symbolically from his novel. The government in today's society has many restrictions on people so people today do not have total freedom just like the characters in the novel, only this society is far less extreme. The government in Nineteen Eighty Four which consists of the Inner and Outer Parties have attempted to rewrite the English language and make it into as few words as possible; even is it means changing the meaning of some words. One of the Newspeak engineers says, "[we're] cutting the language down to the bone . . .Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year" (55). The government wants to change the way their people think by altering the language into a new one. This language is called Newspeak and it brings hope to the government to eliminate anti-social thinking before it even has a chance to enter someone's mind. By eliminating vocabulary from the English language, there can be no revolution. For those who continue to have their own opinion on matters of life and government, the Thought Police will come and arrest them and they will be put into the Ministry of Love, where they will be re-educated and punished severely. The media plays a big role in Nineteen Eighty Four because it "... controls some of the ways in which people think about and assess the world. The Party is interested in masking the truth, and so the media manipulates language to present a distorted reality." (Berkes) This is similar to today's government in which the citizens do not always hear about everything that is going on in politics. The government can hide whatever they wish from their society and get away with it.
Approximate Word count = 1272
Approximate Pages = 5.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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