George Orwell

British writer and journalist (1903–1950)

In the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to prevent people from being able to think critically. The Newspeak language thus limits the person's ability to articulate and communicate abstract concepts, such as personal identity, self-expression, and free will, which are thoughtcrimes, acts

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English novelist (1905-2000)

Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality. George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Orwellian is a neologism suggested in the writings by George Orwell. It is an adjective which is used to describe a situation, an idea or a societal condition, usually identified as being destructive to a free and open society. It was first used by the American author Mary McCarthy in 1950. The term denotes draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, and denial of truth. It is commonly used in reference to Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four which describes an oppressive fictional totalitarian society where propaganda is used to manipulate the population. Orwe

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British psychologist and writer (1905–1945)

British prize for political writing of outstanding quality (1994-)

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British political theorist and democratic socialist (1929-2008)

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one of the three fictional states (Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia) in the novel 1984 by George Orwell, perpetually vying for the control of the world

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wife of George Orwell (1918–1980)

fictional governmental organizations of Oceania in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

British suffragette, socialist, esperantist and aunt to author George Orwell

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