The Importance of Language in Nineteen Eighty Four

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Despite this, Orwell stresses the fact that the importance of Winston's diary is not the words he writes but the act itself when describing his writing as a "stream of rubbish".

Further into the chapter, Orwell uses mimetic language to illustrate the style of Winston's handwriting, explaining that his pen "slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals" which suggests that when he writes what he is really thinking it comes easily to him and he feels a sense of freedom that he has been deprived of for so long due to the harsh nature of Big Brother and his rules. He begins to protest against the party through the use of his diary, writing "DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER" repeatedly, which shows how strongly he feels about the constraints set upon him and his people and his need to communicate the feelings he has been forced to harbour inside himself for so long. However, soon Winston realises the consequences of his actions and is "tempted to tear out the ...

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of the government in Nineteen Eighty Four to have the capability to suppress the masses and instill fear into them. Similarly, the mention of people's unusual disappearances being a regular and unquestioned occurrence contributes towards the harsh disposition of the government. Orwell includes the line, "your one time existence was denied and then forgotten" to emphasise that people do not even have the power over their own existences, they are like pieces in a game, discarded when they are no longer needed and forced to be forgotten about. Later, Orwell uses aggressive language to describe the disappearances when writing "abolished, annihilated: vaporised was the usual word" which ...

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