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1984
Newspeak Terms
Question | Answer |
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Victory Mansions | government issued housing |
Big Brother | figurehead of Oceania |
Hate Week | Week in which Oceanian citizens all attend rallies and parades to inflame hatred of Party enemies and heighten their efforts on behalf of Oceania |
telescreen | two-way television |
Police Patrol | travel around Oceania arresting people |
Thought Police | police force in charge of eliminating crimethink |
Airstrip One | Britain |
Oceania, Eastasia, Eurasia | three super powers constantly at war |
Newspeak | language, gets smaller |
Ministry of Truth | propagate lies |
Ministry of Love | torture, reconditioning people |
Ministry of Plenty | economic affairs |
Ministry of Peace | war |
the Party | highest group of people on Oceania |
Party slogans | war is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery |
physical jerks | morning calisthenics |
INGSOC | english socialism |
doublethink | The power to hold two completely contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accept both of them. |
mutability of the past | changing the past, make BB loo omniscient |
"Victory" | government issued |
speawrite | voice recognition software |
proles | not considered part of the Party, allowed to do what they wanted |
Two Minutes Hate | Daily telescreen specials in which various elements of crimethink were packaged into a parade of horrible images and sounds, at which, the viewers were expected to boo, hiss, curse. and release any negative emotions upon. |
Junior Anti-Sex league | Organization promoting celibacy, and the eradication of the orgasm, because these things cause feelings of ownlife |
Inner Party | official party members, upper class |
Outer Party | "middle class" people |
enemy of the people | Goldstein |
the Brotherhood | people against BB |
the Book | written by Goldstein |
vaporization | elimination of a person |
the Youth League | marches, party ideology |
Spies | kids who watch out for their parents |
memory hole | slots in the walls |
pornosec | the porno section |
artsem | artificial insemination |
facecrime | facial expressions |
duckspeak | people who spit political jargon |
ownlife | independent lifestyle |
Chesnut Tree Cafe | place for intellectuals and artists, symbolic of expression |
lift | elevator |
flat | apartment |
spanner | wrench |
tube | subway |