Doublethink

5/1/2019

Daily Literary Quote
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

George Orwell, 1984

Journal Prompt
Explain these seemingly-contradictory statements in your own words. Do they make sense? Why or why not? Who might benefit from using slogans such as these?

41 Comments

Brenna

5/1/2019 10:04:03 am

In a way they make sense. To get peace there will be war, I don't agree with the other two statements though. I'm not sure who will benefit from these. If you wanted to control an entire country you might tell these to the people.

Robyn

5/1/2019 10:06:22 am

Yeah, I suppose in the long run war could lead to peace

Katelyn

5/1/2019 10:06:54 am

Sometimes people are sheep and follow who designated themselves as the shepherd.

Brandon Westfall

5/23/2019 10:10:30 am

I think that these statements make a little sense.

Sarah

5/1/2019 10:04:04 am

They dont really make sense. The only one that I could see being true is that war sometimes leads to peace but even that's a long stretch. The only people who could benifit are the ones that are trying to control others for example the government.

Brenna

5/1/2019 10:05:41 am

I agree, these are definitely something a controlling person would tell others.

Katelyn

5/1/2019 10:05:56 am

I can see how War becoming peace makes sense, but it depends on who benefits from that the most in the end.

Kiana Farnworth

5/1/2019 10:16:27 am

I agree.

Hailey Jo

5/20/2019 06:39:05 pm

I used the government as well.

Hailey Jo

5/20/2019 06:40:01 pm

Totally agree

Brandon Westfall

5/23/2019 10:11:35 am

Yeah, wars eventually have to end which is peace. But peace doesn’t tend to last if it came from war.

Katelyn

5/1/2019 10:04:44 am

The paradox meaning for these statements are meant as a kind of simplistic explanation where people don’t question whether or not they are true. They don’t make sense when you understand the depths of each kind of power the words hold in the world. The government that enforces these words benefit the most because it makes controlling people easier.

Robyn

5/1/2019 10:07:05 am

I agree

Brenna

5/1/2019 10:07:29 am

I like the way you stated your view.

Kiana Farnworth

5/1/2019 10:11:41 am

I completely agree.

Hailey Jo

5/20/2019 06:40:45 pm

I like the way you worded this.

Aimee

5/1/2019 10:05:07 am

I think that they do make sense because it depends on how you view each of those individual items.

Jennifer

5/1/2019 10:06:44 am

So neat.

Aimee

5/1/2019 10:07:27 am

Thanks.

Nate

5/1/2019 10:11:07 am

Well written, Aimee.

Robyn

5/1/2019 10:05:30 am

From a straight forward point of view, these slogans don't make any sense at all, but based on the story they sort of do. The people in control use these statements to justify to the people what's going on, and assure them that what they're doing is right.

Brandon Westfall

5/1/2019 10:06:14 am

These statements do not make any sense. They are complete opposites. Dictators could use these slogans as propaganda to encourage war, ignorance, and slavery.

Kayla

5/1/2019 10:09:12 am

That is one way to look at it

Cherish

5/1/2019 10:10:11 am

I agree that they don’t make sense.

Jennifer

5/1/2019 10:06:31 am

I think I depends on how you view the statements. Some people may agree and think they make sense and others may not. It all depends on ones perspective.

Nate

5/1/2019 10:10:39 am

Nice, jennifer

Connor

5/1/2019 10:07:38 am

In a way they make sense, but it don’t agree with them. People that would benefit would be a government trying to control people or someone who is trying to take over.

James

5/1/2019 10:11:53 am

The first one makes the most sense, but even then it's not much.

Nick

5/1/2019 10:15:18 am

Nice.

Nate

5/1/2019 10:08:01 am

It depends. They don’t really make sense but I’m a way they do

Kayla

5/1/2019 10:08:30 am

They do but don’t

Cherish

5/1/2019 10:08:02 am

These slogans don’t make sense at all. They’re all the complete opposite of what really happens. More so war usually causes mayhem, slavery is not freedom in any means, and strength has no ignorance to it. I don’t think that anyone benefits from these particular slogans.

Kayla

5/1/2019 10:08:03 am

In a way it’s like an oxymoron but it contradicts itself. It doesn’t make much sense. People that might use this would be those who are trying to be controlling.

Cherish

5/1/2019 10:09:19 am

Even the people who are controlling don’t really benefit from them though. They all cause more problems than they do to fix them.

James

5/1/2019 10:08:50 am

War can lead to peace but the other two statements do not make sense. The people that would benefit from these slogans are the people trying to control the population.

Connor

5/1/2019 10:11:05 am

Fascinating

Nick

5/1/2019 10:14:23 am

I agree.

Nick

5/1/2019 10:13:53 am

I think war can lead to peace but most of these don’t make sense unless you look at them individually.

Saymen

5/1/2019 10:15:20 am

Yeah some of them make sense becomes wood could lead to a piece some times.

Kiana Farnworth

5/1/2019 10:15:21 am

These statements completely contradict themselves and so they don’t make much sense, but that’s probably the point. The society in which they are used within the book, is probably full of lazy people who don’t have the time to thoroughly think through the meaning of this slogan. They probably think that the meaning is so complex that it would take too long to understands and so they blindly follow the standards and values set by their society.

Hailey Jo

5/20/2019 06:38:27 pm

In all reality these words make no sense but in the book 1984 they make perfect sense. These slogans would maybe benefit a person in a high government position who is trying to take power.

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