Examples Of Doublethink In 1984
Doublethink in the novel 1984 is used by the citizens of Oceania, and plays an important role of showing us how the inner party maintains control.
To doublethink is to know the truth, but in your mind, choose to believe what’s untrue. For example, if you knew the sky’s color is blue and suddenly you had a person in authority telling you that the sky is in fact green; you would know the sky is blue but force yourself to accept it is green. In other words, you know what’s correct, but doublethink yourself into believing what you’re being told is correct. After some practice, you would slowly stop noticing the conflict in your mind, and it would become more natural for you to default to doublethink. Most all of the people of Oceania have gotten so comfortable with using doublethink that they do not realize they’re doing it anymore.
One way the novel shows us doublethink is when the party spontaneously changes who their enemies and allies are. The people of Oceania believed they were at war with Eurasia and allies with Eastasia, then without argument, they accept what they’re told by the rulers that they are really at war with Eastasia and allies with Eurasia. Everyone takes …show more content…
They are all essentially brainwashed into believing everything the party tells them, causing them to doublethink everything they are told that contradicts what they know to be true. Whatever the party says, everyone is to accept it. For instance, if the party wants two plus two to be equal to five, then there’s no doubt that two plus two is in fact equal to five. Though there is still conflict going on in the person’s mind about what it is actually equal to, they just choose to believe what they are told. If five minutes later the party wanted two plus two to be equal to one and one half, then everyone would essentially believe that two plus two is in fact equal to one and one
To doublethink is to know the truth, but in your mind, choose to believe what’s untrue. For example, if you knew the sky’s color is blue and suddenly you had a person in authority telling you that the sky is in fact green; you would know the sky is blue but force yourself to accept it is green. In other words, you know what’s correct, but doublethink yourself into believing what you’re being told is correct. After some practice, you would slowly stop noticing the conflict in your mind, and it would become more natural for you to default to doublethink. Most all of the people of Oceania have gotten so comfortable with using doublethink that they do not realize they’re doing it anymore.
One way the novel shows us doublethink is when the party spontaneously changes who their enemies and allies are. The people of Oceania believed they were at war with Eurasia and allies with Eastasia, then without argument, they accept what they’re told by the rulers that they are really at war with Eastasia and allies with Eurasia. Everyone takes …show more content…
They are all essentially brainwashed into believing everything the party tells them, causing them to doublethink everything they are told that contradicts what they know to be true. Whatever the party says, everyone is to accept it. For instance, if the party wants two plus two to be equal to five, then there’s no doubt that two plus two is in fact equal to five. Though there is still conflict going on in the person’s mind about what it is actually equal to, they just choose to believe what they are told. If five minutes later the party wanted two plus two to be equal to one and one half, then everyone would essentially believe that two plus two is in fact equal to one and one