Title In a world which attacks language, history, and love, is thought possible? In Animal Farm and 1984, citizens under totalitarian rule experienced this world; the results were catastrophic. Language, history, and love, all essential to freedom of thought, were distorted and became nothing more than tools—puppets—used for manipulation. As a result, citizens of Animal Farm and Oceania lost their ability to think beyond the propaganda fed to them, blindly accepting it as reality.
Language and thinking are so tightly interwoven, so interdependent, that you cannot have one without the other. But in 1984, Newspeak was designed “‘to narrow the range of thought’” (pg. 52). It was the Party’s instrument for curtailing complex language, and therefore thinking. Once it was in use, people lacked the words and concepts needed to reflect on their lives, …show more content…
For that reason, Animal Farm and Oceania both strove to distort love. It came to mean not intimacy between people, but loyalty and submission to their tyrannical rulers. On Animal Farm, interpersonal relationships were devalued, as Napoleon was thought to be the only one who could be trusted. In 1984, The Ministry of Love was the pinnacle of love’s destruction; it was the symbol of what it had become. Guarded by barbed-wire fences, high walls, and twenty-four-hour guards, it struck fear into the hearts of the Outer Party members. As a result, love itself was feared and, unless directed towards Big Brother, unaccepted. It was impressed on citizens that all other forms of love were uncomfortable and loathsome. Sexual relations were considered a “duty to the Party” (pg. 67), necessary only for the production of children. Neither pleasure, nor affection played any part in it. Therefore, citizens lived their entire lives in fear and solitude, unable to experience love and the freedom of choice and thought that it
Language and thinking are so tightly interwoven, so interdependent, that you cannot have one without the other. But in 1984, Newspeak was designed “‘to narrow the range of thought’” (pg. 52). It was the Party’s instrument for curtailing complex language, and therefore thinking. Once it was in use, people lacked the words and concepts needed to reflect on their lives, …show more content…
For that reason, Animal Farm and Oceania both strove to distort love. It came to mean not intimacy between people, but loyalty and submission to their tyrannical rulers. On Animal Farm, interpersonal relationships were devalued, as Napoleon was thought to be the only one who could be trusted. In 1984, The Ministry of Love was the pinnacle of love’s destruction; it was the symbol of what it had become. Guarded by barbed-wire fences, high walls, and twenty-four-hour guards, it struck fear into the hearts of the Outer Party members. As a result, love itself was feared and, unless directed towards Big Brother, unaccepted. It was impressed on citizens that all other forms of love were uncomfortable and loathsome. Sexual relations were considered a “duty to the Party” (pg. 67), necessary only for the production of children. Neither pleasure, nor affection played any part in it. Therefore, citizens lived their entire lives in fear and solitude, unable to experience love and the freedom of choice and thought that it