Adam Wheat

December 5, 2015
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1984 book response
Book 2
Motif: Language and writing (lies in writing)
1) It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
The quote is stating that words have been destroyed and deleted. We
wonder what words have already been deleted. The government go to
eliminate feelings by eliminating words to describe them. Turning people into
robots.
2) April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought
is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from
a dead man - greetings!
Writing on your own in a diary is a crime and Winston clearly states thinking
outside is a crime and calls himself a dead man. The reader asks if he knows
it is a crime why does he still do it. He calls the past the future inferring that
there was a time were there was freedom and things like writing in a diary
was legal.
3) And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed if all records
told the same tale then the lie passed into history and became truth. "Who
controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the
present controls the past." And yet the past, though of its nature alterable,
never had been altered."
This is in my opinion the best quote to describe the motif it describes that
writing and the history are altered in the story Winston remembers the
takeover in the 60's but the records state the party goes back to the 30's.
This states that the history has been a lie and anybody younger then
Winston will not remember. Language is altered
4) "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed:
everything else is public relations."

We can infer that there are no newspapers. And all the news has been view
and scanned and possibly altered by the government. Thus eliminating
freedom of speech. Any writing or printing is for the government. And like
quote one above journalism is a word to be deleted.