Friday, November 6, 2009

Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel Summary 4

within this chapter we meet Winston during in his job at the Ministry of Truth. What he has to do for the day’s business are in newspeak, which appear to be a sort of new language, but are soon revealed to carry very malicious intentions. What winston had to do was rewrite an updated article in "The Times" newspaper. All copies of the earlier edition would be destroyed and anyone who went looking for records would find the Party’s claims fully substantiated by the documents. Another person dealt with erasing all records of persons who had been “vaporized” (that is, executed) by the Party, so that according to records, they had never existed at all, so of course they could not have been killed.
One of Winston’s jobs for this particular day was of extra significance as it dealt directly with one of Big Brother’s speeches. The job was so important that Winston knew he would not be the only one working on it. He thought that Tillotson, a man who sat next to him as well as a few others would all be producing different versions, which would finally be edited, and the best piece selected. The speech referred to someone who had been vaporised (all traces of him erased from he planet) and had to be rewritten using a new imagined person called comrade olgivy

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