Tuesday, 27 December 2011

How is language used in 1984 to allow the government to control their citizens??

clues us
into the thinking process of totalitarian governments through the use or rather the
discouragement of the use of a high vocabulary. 

Totalitarian governments
fear the intelligentsia.  They will therefore arrest and or murder the college professors, the
media, and the thinkers.

In , Big Brother attempts to stop the thinking
processes of individuals in society by degrading the vocabulary.  The less words that are used,
the more Big Brother can control.

uses this concept as a paradigm.  In a
sense he exaggerates the implementation of this idea to convey the greater truth that
totalitarian governments wish to retard thinking and intelligent thought.

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