Euphemism In George Orwell's 1984

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In Winston’s dystopian world he is under 24/7 surveillance anywhere, everywhere. ‘Big Brother’ and the Inner Party watches Oceania through what used to be televisions are now telescreens. In the modern society however, how we live our everyday lives is not stricted like 1984, and we are free in many aspects compared to Winston’s way of living. “The rule here is simple: if you are invoking 1984 in a country in which 1984 is available for purchase and can be freely deployed as a rhetorical device, you likely don’t understand the point of 1984” as Moynihan states. Living in the society of 1984 you are prohibited to your own freedom, and you are brain-washed so much you believe anything ‘Big Brother’ says is the truth which will always be the truth. ‘Big Brother’ and the Inner Party uses manipulation, repression, and euphemism to confuse the mind to believe two plus two equals five, and going against the fact will end your life. However, 1984’s society does exist as Moynihan says, “Such states exist, like the truly Orwellian slave state of North Korea, where all apartments are fitted with radios offering a single government station and no switch, but they bear little resemblance to contemporary America.” In other words our world has no correlation to Winston’s world. The Inner Party of 1984 has manipulated their people to never have their independent thought, which having one and ‘trying to hide it’ goes down the ‘memory hole’, which in this case the memory hole goes to the ‘Inner Party’. “We are not interested in those stupid crimes you have committed, the Party is not interested in the overt act, the Thought is all we care about, wer do not destroy our enemies- we change their opinions” O’Brien,

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