Examples Of Destruction Of Language In 1984 By George Orwell

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Could the destruction in the past be used as a tool to manipulate people into believing anything? In George Orwell’s novel “1984”, the society is forced to live with a totalitarian government, called the Party, forcing all of the citizens to speak only one language. They limit the use of vocabulary and shorten words to prevent the society from thinking their own thoughts. They use propaganda to change the citizens mindset so that the Party is always right. By regulating the citizens thought, words, and language and by using propaganda, the novel shows that the destruction of language can be used as a tool to manipulate language. First, the novel shows the destruction of language as a tool to manipulate language because the Party

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