What are examples of newspeak from 1984?

Answer 1

I think one can argue that the entire book is based upon paranoia, both by the government and by Winston. The government targets its party members out of suspicion that he/she is trying to bring down Big Brother when often, that person is completely innocent. So because they are so paranoid, they build a nation full of fear and create the Thought Police to try seek out any possible threat of treason, even when there may be nothing there. It is not necessarily the truth that there are people trying to bring them down, but it's the thought of it that drives them to drastic measures of interrogating, torturing, and killing its "dangerous" party members.

As for the people, they as a whole do not express as much paranoia because they are brainwashed from birth into thinking that the party always knows what's best and if the party says they did something wrong, then it must be true. But through Winston's eyes, he lives his life fearful that the Thought Police are out to get him and that one day, he will be "fixed." In the beginning of the book, he is so paranoid that the Thought Police will look through his things that he places white dust on his diary to let himself know that it was not touched (even though the party outsmarts him in the end anyway). Although Winston is constantly petrified that he will be caught, he still cannot control his impulses and goes against the party even though he eventually learns that his best efforts to remain safe will be useless in the end.