1984 - George Orwell Novel

Ya, I read this novel recently and would like to brief you about it. The novel is set in a dystopian world (opposite of utopia). The story is set in peak of imagination in which the whole world is ruled by socialists or totalitarians (like Hitler). People are all treated like slaves with spies all around and a standard schedule of fourteen hour work for all of them. The history is rewritten every second and people are frightened to communicate with each other. It describes in core about how such a world would be set in.

One idea that attracted me in the novel was the INGSOC dictionary. For example words like NEWSPEAK (new English they speak), DOUBLETHINK (thinking of two contradictory things), JOYCAMP(concentration camp). The dictionary is also rewritten with new words, the difference here is the number of words is constantly reduced in each new version. The book has a INGSOC dictionary as appendix.

At first , I thought the author is simply expanding his book to give a more outlook of the imaginary world but as I went through the book, the author revealed that the process of reducing the words in dictionary was done to minimize the knowledge and creativity of people. The language actually improves human thinking and creativity. This simple point was seeded into me through imaginary story of the novel.

You would be thinking now, why this guy wants to say something about an imaginary world or dystopian novel in his first post rather than saying about his first blog post or how it all started. If I am right in judging you (grins) then continue……

The simple thought that was seeded into me made me think in the opposite way, to improve your creativity you should start using the language extensively . so here you see my first step towards it.