4/16/2019
Today, we presented our 1984 Lesson projects. Each group presented and discussed topics that apply to 1984, such as psychological manipulation, control of technology, and language control. My group’s topic was physical control.
Group 2 went first, presenting about language control. The do now was to explain the exact way you take to get to school in only 30 seconds. Then, we did it again but could not use the words left, right, forward, compass directions, or angles. It was a lot harder to communicate where you were going without using these words.
Crimestop is when people in 1984 are taught to not analyze or criticize anything considered complex. Blackwhite is the belief that whatever the Party says becomes automatically true, and anything they did not say, never happened.
Then we played pictionary, where someone picked a word out of a hat and had 30 seconds to draw it out. The words were all complex ideas, like opportunity and sympathy, that were hard to explain without words.
Without language, eventually entire concepts, directions, and thoughts would not be able to be expressed in the same way. The people in 1984 have almost no way to understand or interpret what somebody is trying to discuss.
The next group presented about psychological manipulation.
This morning, an email was sent out to the entire class to pick Answer A for the presentation.
In class, we answered a question of “Which line is longer?” and the obvious answer was B, but a majority of the class did not choose B. The purpose of the experiment was to see if the class would blindly follow the Party’s orders and accept whatever they said was correct.
Big Brother uses psychological control in 1984 to instill fear into the public. All the telescreens and cameras establish to the people that he is constantly watching your every move, and you dare not do any thought crime around him.
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