Innholdsfortegnelse
Biography
On 1984
Principles of newspeak
Analysis
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- Part 3.
Utdrag
George Orwell, or Eric Arthur Blair that was hi real name, was born in 1903 in India. The family moved to England in 1907. He entered Eton in 1917.
He served from 1922 to 1927 in the Indian imperial police in Burma. These years inspired him to write his first novel Burmese days (1934).
After that, he lived in Paris for two years as a very poor man. He then moved to England where he worked as a private tutor, teacher and bookshop assistant.
The time in Paris and London inspired him to write Down and out in Paris and London (1933). In the year 1935, he met a girl named Eileen O’Shaughnessy.
They got married in 1936. In 1936, he was commissioned by Victor Gollancs to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire.
His novel the road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a description of the poverty in Lancashire and Yorkshire. He went to Spain in 1936 to fight for the republicans in the civil war.
George Orwell was an active anti fascist. In Spain, he joined POUM. Partido Obrero de Unification Marxista.
POUM was an anarchistic, communistic organisation. After the capitulation, the communists wanted to remove anarchists. Orwell just barely escapes.
His novel Homage to Catalonia (1938) is his account of the civil war. In 1938, he stayed in at a sanatorium in Kent. Here he was diagnosed tuberculosis. Later he spent six months in Morocco where he wrote coming up for air.
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Newspeak was the official language of Oceania. No one actually spoke newspeak, but all the leading articles in The Time were written in it.
Newspeak was, according to the plans, to supersede oldspeak, as they called modern English, in the year 2050.
The purpose of newspeak was to narrow peoples minds in the sense that if you do not have the words to express something you, in theory, cant think it either.
The special thing about newspeak is that the vocabulary grows smaller rather than larger and in this way prevents Thoughtcrime.
The reduction of the vocabulary was done in the way that words with an exact, orthodox meaning are kept.
Most words are eliminated, but some new words are created. Most words are stripped of unorthodoxy. For example, the word, “free”.
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