Language- Mind Mapping Activity

Language- The language of the novel Key pages- 3l, 62, 99, 130, 144, 154,167. 212, 213 (etc)

The writer should be clear about what he thinks and the language he uses to express himself should be simple, direct and plain • Totalitariansim as the great political threat • Totalitariansim thrives on blurring of judgement and vagueness of thought, feeling and language • Totalitariansim can only work if people are changing their minds at will • Totalitariansim is easier if language (and thought) is vague and indistinct Simple, direct concrete language Life is described exactness- attention to telling detail Imaginative quality- describing exactly how life is in a tolaitarian state

Language type 1- Language of most of the novel Language type 2- Meetings between Julia and Winston Language type 3- ‘The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism’ by Emmanuel Goldstein Language type 4- Attempts to create the impression of the speech of the proles Luxury of more poetic style More romantic language Used mainly for paperweight and proles • Dry language of political theory • Abstract scientific analysis • Clear but lacking concreteness

Language- the theme Key pages: 9, 18, 53- 58, 312-325

Society of newspeak- the language of Ingsoc ‘The revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak’ Orwell-language and morality are closely related. Destruction of words Not to use language clearly involves a descent into a kind of sub-human state, whose speech is ‘uttered in unconsciousness’, duckspeak No words = no ideas/concepts= thoughtcrime disappears ‘the beauty of the destruction of words’ To be human is to discriminate and judge, judgement involves the exact use of language so that the mind knows where it stands. Syme the philologist

Used this image of the two blank discs for eyes, in a description of a tired political hack, mouthing strings of phrases which have nothing to do with thought or with the process of human life: • ‘One often has the curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles nd turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them’ Orwell- Politics and the English Language

Wrtten in past tense which may or may not indicate that the party was overthrown at some stage Appendix