NEWSPEAK AS A TOOL OF TOTALITARISM IN THE WORKS OF 1984 BY G. ORWELL AND DAY OF THE OPRICHNIK BY V. SOROKIN

Z.B. Baimussina, Д.С. Розиева

2022

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DOI 10.48371/phils.2022.67.4.021
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Abstract

Abstract. The article deals with the dystopian works 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four) by G. Orwell and Day of the Oprichnik by V. Sorokin, where Newspeak is used as a tool of totalitarianism. Dystopian works show a totalitarian world where people can be judged even for dissent. Orwell caught the socio-political meaning of language manipulation in totalitarian societies. The novel 1984 by Orwell is a vivid example of how language can influence the world and control people's minds. Newspeak is the official language of Oceania, which was developed to operate the ideology of English socialism. Newspeak meant the gradual displacement of Oldspeak. Newspeak had a vocabulary, grammar, vocabulary, and rhetoric. In the novel Day of the Oprichnik V. Sorokin shows a modification of the Russian language. The characters are delighted with the world in which they live. Oprichniks have the power of the Oprichnina, leading a merciless policy. Characters use Old Russian, modern Russian and Chinese. Sorokin’s Newspeak in his works demonstrates totalitarian Russia, in whose life Chinese goods and, accordingly, the Chinese language have tightly entered, the study of the Chinese language has been introduced in schools. It is interesting that Chinese, being not Slavic, was able to come into use. Sorokin is considered a representative of Russian postmodernism. His social art, postmodernism in Newspeak with abundant obscenities, scenes of violence and vileness was dedicated to the culture of consumption, everything Russian and hopeless. Newspeak has absorbed some of the features characteristic of the process of creating artificial languages. The main task of artificial or fictional languages ​​is quite understandable: to make it possible to express any thought with the help of a small set of words. In fact, an artificial language was created as a variant of a single world means of communication. To a certain extent, Orwell's Newspeak embodied the idea of ​​an ideal unified language, the model of which was created in the space of dystopian novels. Keywords: dystopia, G. Orwell, V. Sorokin, totalitarianism, dictatorship, Newspeak, oprichnina, anti-utopia