ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Newspeak, “designed to diminish the range of thought, ” was the language preferred by Big Brother’s pervasive enforcers.

Detailed explanation-3: -For Orwell, the modernist style of the war books was as important as their content. His most explicit praise for the books is found in ‘Inside the whale’ (1940), an essay defending modernist writing against its detractors on the left.

Detailed explanation-4: -This paper will argue that 1984 continues the Enlightenment’s “middle-class focus on self-interest and self-enrichment” (Watling, p. 183) through its focus on individualism and rationality, becoming a nexus of creativity, politics, and philosophy, and making it a work of modernism.