The dehumanization of civilians and government manipulation through propaganda is coherent with totalitarian regimes. Orwell’s creation of ‘Newspeak’ and ‘Doublethink’ in 1984 emphasises the one-party-rule and their corresponding psychological manipulation: the limitations on linguistics ensures the dehumanisation through propagating reality. Through the exploration of Syme, he embodies this ideology through his view that “Orthodoxy is unconsciousness” to paradoxically highlight the Party’s use of Newspeak as an effort to hinder independent thought. The adoption of Newspeak as a means to propagate reality holds direct historical reference to Joseph Goebbels and the “Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda” during the Third Reich to
