Language as the Ultimate Weapon and my review of 1984

Ok I am going to talk about George Orwell novel 1984 and because of that if you haven’t read it I don’t know what are you doing wasting your time, that is a book everyone should read and I feel bad for not doing it earlier and having to wait for someone to force me to do it, thanks professor Ariel.

Well 1984 it’s a dense book in my opinion because it really makes you think on the world it shows you and how it would be if our world was like that or if we were in an scenario as the novel shows us.

The point of the psychological control based on the vocabulary as the novel shows us and as it is remarked in the article “Language as the ultimate weapon” it’s scary, really scary because you see it on the book and you think, if that happened in real life would I be able to tell the difference and oppose to it or would it be so subtle I would begin to embrace without even paying attention and when the article makes the comparison to politics and how they do something in that area that’s has a very close resemblance of what happens in the book is when you start to think if we are too far away from the reality depicted in the novel or if we are headed that way.

Being controlled in that way, in the sense that there’s no possible room for rebellion or impure thought not because that you are scared, or that you are controlled but because you can’t even think about those concepts because you don’t even know that exists I think is the toughest reality of the novel because if that is achieved then there will be no need for direct control because people will just assume everything works this way and they can’t imagine another way of existing, that is what really struck me.