Doublethink

Outline

•Definition

•Doublethink in the movie 1984

•Doublethink and reality

•Doublethink and freedom

"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

- George Orwell

Definition

•War is peace

•Freedom is slavery

•Ignorance is strength

Examples

•What is truth?

•Who says what truth is in Oceania?

•Why do they (have to) manipulate the truth?

•What is the connection and the difference between doublethink and newspeak?

Doublethink in the movie 1984

Doublethink and reality

•Terror

•Infallibility + learning

•Knowing but not recoiling

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.

If that is granted, all else follows.“

-Winston

Doublethink and freedom

What do you think?

Lea Ganser