1984

1984 Mechanical and routine are the words used by the American Heritage Dictionary, to define the term dehumanization. Dehumanization also means to deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. In 1984, Big Brother, manages to take all three of these qualities away in the society which they live. Without these qualities, a person’s self worth is taken away from them and forced to obey a higher power. The state dehumanized the people because they did not allow them to have any self worth. Every aspect of their lives was controlled. From using the bathroom to sleeping, one false move anywhere or one bad thought, and you could loose your life. The state did not allow the people to think for themselves. “It seemed to him (Winston) that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequence…Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death” (Orwell pg. 27). That is how people had to think, to formulate your own ideas was a sure sentence to death. What the Party said is all that you party, winston, even, away, think, people, one, way, taken, state, privacy, own, orwell, language, thoughts, society, qualities, newspeak, individual, government, express, dehumanizing, death, bad, allow, worth, watched, two, totalitarian, took, themselves, take, survive, sure, standard, self, reality, purpose, major, individuality, ideas, idea, freely, formulate, forced, dehumanized, dehumanization, controlled, control, 1984, orwell