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Examples Of Doublethink In 1984

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Follow your dreams. Children and adults alike hear this phrase and feel inspired, driven, and ready to take on the future. Our dreams consist of our inner desires… It is our subconscious telling us how we really feel. The first half of this passage, juxtaposed to the second half, describes Winston in a dream state. Not yet acting out on Big Brother’s fallacies and oppressive rule we see throughout the novel. Winston is beginning to have inklings of ideas of going against the Party and its own ideals. This passage uses allegory and the idea of doublethink to demonstrate Winston’s growing displeasure with Big Brother and all its related modes of oppression and begins to put in the minds of the audience ideas of how to bring system of oppression …show more content…

It would not be a far reach to assume that in the original biblical context, the naked body was perfect and represented absolute truth, a truth that had not yet been corrupted. We see with the Fall of Man, Adam and Eve began to be prideful, doubtful, and eventually corrupted by sin. They began to cloth themselves as they began to doubt God. The clothing in the biblical account of the first people represents lies and deception, brought on by a force that is not truth. By throwing the clothes to the side, the dark haired woman is literally choosing to shed the lies and deception of the Party, bringing truth to Winston in his dream …show more content…

The sudden jump from the dream state to the real world in which “Physical Jerks” exist as an exercise mandated by the Party is intentional. We are shown two contrasting worlds, one in which Winston wants to exist and one in which he does exist. While Winston exists in a world of Big Brother, the Party, etc. he really wants to be free from it all and deep down he knows it. This is an example of doublethink. Doublethink is simultaneously holding two contradicting opinions at one time. This is a real life situation in which Winston and the reader encounter doublethink without realizing it on the surface level. Winston knows deep down how he really feels and what life could be like in his dream state, while Winston is forced to act a certain way and believe certain things in the real world. Having two contradicting beliefs, while knowing one is the better belief and choosing not to believe it for the benefit of the Party is the exact definition of

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