1984 Book Post.

Currently I am reading the book call 1984 by George Orwell. Just this week my group finished the first part of the book it is about one hundred pages long. The first part was mostly about Big Brother’s power.

Big Brother is a tyrant over London, he control the people’s lives and thoughts. In all citizen of London, if they have a telescreen or television, the government can see their each movement they made in seconds. Narrator said,

“It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time...-in the assumption that every sound you made was overhead, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinize. Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen. It was safer...,”(Orwell3).

This means that the government will do anything to keep their power. It seems that the government is paranoid that the citizen of London would try to over throw them, so they would have to create a television that had camera to view the people daily. It just shows that Big Brother and the Ministries are self-centered people and care about their power. Including the fact that London has been in constant wars with Oceania and Eurasia.London’s government is just ridiculous and odd.

Big Brother made changes into the society of London is to destroy any textual evidence of the past history and change it to Big Brother’s prediction or idea. This change in the society was a terrible idea because now many people would think that Big Brother did or think those things that happened in history and make him like into a God. Winston’s job is to change the history to make it into Big Brother’s prophecy. It said,

“ A number of the Times which might, because of changes in political alignment, or mistaken prophecies uttered by Big Brother, have been rewritten a dozen times still stood on the files bearing its original date, and no other copy existed to contradict it,”(Orwell40).

This means that Big Brother cares about people worshiping him because he changed the history to make it in to some prophecy. It just makes him sound like a swallow person.

Big Brother and the Ministries has been controlling the people of London. In the year of 1984 there is a new language called Newspeak, and Newspeak was type of language that the people in the government to use to make the citizen sound like idiots. But there is also Oldspeak, this language is what the people around the world currently speaking. It is the normal way, but in Newspeak the people that create new words destroy the language. They tend to make dictionaries filled of Newspeak words and by the end of 2050 all people would speck Newspeak. Winston’s friend said,

“‘The Eleventh Edition is the definitive edition,’”he said. ‘We’re getting the language into its final shape-the shape it’s going to have when nobody speaks anything else. When we’ve finished with it, people like you will have to learn it all over again...,that our chief job is inventing new words. But not one bit of it! We’re destroying words-scores of them, hundred of them,every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050,’”(Orwell51).

The purpose of Newspeak is to make the people sound like a fools and to lower the thinking of the citizen so that the superior men would think that they are intelligent people.

Finally the government style in the London has been destroyed by a “powerful” being called Big Brother. And him and the Ministry has been destroying the country of London. They have ruined the language arts and replaced it with Newspeak, there are no more privacy, and they destroyed the history. Big Brother and the Ministry has been controlling the people's lives and thoughts.