Ampleforth is a poet who works in the Records Department. Ampleforth’s job there is to rewrite politically, economical, or ideologically Old speak poems that are intolerable to the Party or to Big Brother.
Nineteen Eighty-Four sometimes written 1984 is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about a degenerated workers’ state. The novel portrays an oligarchical, collectivist civilization where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control.
In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue, in Newspeak), character Winston Smith is a civil servant accountable for perpetuating the Party’s propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meagre existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother, eventually leading to his torture, arrest, and conversion.
Just recently, An Egyptian college student carrying a copy of George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was arrested in Cairo, raising questions about free speech under the country's government with President Abdel Fattah Sisi.
The student, whose name was reported as Mohamed T, did have the book with him at the time he was taken in, police say, but they maintain it wasn't the reason for his arrest. The Egyptian news website Mada Masr quoted security official Gen. Mahmoud Farouk as saying, "None of us knows anything about this novel in the first place." Read more at Los Angeles Times.
The English language generously provides us with more than half-a-million words to work (and play) with. Yet consider how often we find ourselves straining to find the right words to express our thoughts. In the essay "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell offers six elementary rules for writers, read more at Grammar.about.com.
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