Thursday 4 April 2013

My Glossary

1: Doublethink: Noun: Means the ability to hold two completely opposite/contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time, resulting in the breakdown of the individual's mind and thus incapability for the individual to hold independent thought and believe anything the Party says, no matter how contradictory they are.

Examples: - During the Hate Week ceremony, the announcer changes topics immediately as he realizes that     Eurasia has become the enemy, not Eastasia. The crowd simply accepts the change in mid-sentence and is ashamed to see that there are the wrong posters ("Death to Eastasia", the former enemy)
                - Ministry of Love (Concerned with torture), Ministry of Truth (Concerned with propaganda and lies), Ministry of Plenty (Concerned with rationing and shortages), and Ministry of Peace (Concerned with war)

2: Newspeak: Noun: A new language invented by the Party (Still in progress) that has become the official language of Oceania, which eliminates all words related to rebellion or disobedience or technology, thus making it impossible to conceptualize anything related to rebellion.

Examples: -"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
                -Doubleplusungood = Very, very bad

3: Proletarians: Noun: Often simply called Proles; the lowest class in Oceania, or simply the worker class before the "Revolution". Comprises 85% of the population of Oceania, and live in poor living conditions. The Proles are kept sedated with cheap alcohol, pornography and lotteries. A very uneducated class of people.

Example: -"The Proles are the only hope" Winston said.
                
4: Thoughtcrime: Noun: The crime of committing rebellious or disobedient THOUGHTS. Out of all the possible types of crime, Thoughtcrime is considered the worst because there is no way to stop it, and once it roots itself in the mind, it stays there forever. Note: the Thought Police monitor every citizen for suspicious acts for thoughtcrime.

Examples: -"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: Thoughtcrime is death."
               -"Thoughtcrime was not a thing to be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for years, but sooner or later they were bound to catch you."

5: Unperson: Noun: A person who is "vaporized", or in other words, murdered by the state, but also erased from existence of history. Any mention of that individual in books or videos or records would be erased, and it would seem that individual never existed.

Examples: -Syme disappeared suddenly; he did not come to work. Winston figured he became an unperson.
                -Even mentioning the name of the unperson is Thoughtcrime.

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