Hello, I'm new here, but I have just entered my first AP class, and I could use a hand. I have an essay due on Monday about how the government in 1984 uses logical fallacies to stay in control of the people.
I have identified "False authority" (aka Appeal to Authority) as one. They use Big Brother as a false icon. I need to find more. Can anybody help me?
Read Part II, chapter 8--the part about The Book. It explains how the Party uses language to manipulate thought. The slogans are all contradictory. War is peace--?? Well, yes, because a continuous war serves to maintain "peace," i.e., a balance of the current situation (where the high remain high and the middle and low can't do anything about it).
When Winston creates Comrade Ogilvie, he realizes that you could invent dead people but not living ones. A sad reality.
The notion of vaporization is an interesting paradox. Suppose Syme had a wife and children. After he disappears, the kids would have to accept both the fact that they exist--presupposing that a man sired them--and that the man who sired them never existed. This is impossible. And yet the people accept it.
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