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Big Brother’s Notes on Craft for Young Writers

In his political dystopia, 1984, George Orwell writes that Newspeak, the official language of the totalitarian Party in charge of Oceania, is intended “to make speech, and especially speech on any subject not ideologically neutral, as nearly as possible independent from consciousness” (253). Newspeak provides a Party member “an almost foolproof instrument” (253) to “spray [...]

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