Meaning of Oceanian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone from Oceania (geographical region or continent).
2. Someone from the fictional nation of Oceania in George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

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Examples

“In order⟳ to ensure that the Oceanians do get⟳ excited about Big Brother—displace, that is, eroticism from its natural object, another individual, to the State—the Party attempts in every way “to remove⟳ all pleasure from the sex act. . . . The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting operation, like⟳ having an enema” (p. 57).”

“We might suppose⟳ that Orwell’s claims about the beliefs of Oceanians are simply implausible: after all, as the little thought experiment⟳ I started with demonstrates, we cannot just make⟳ ourselves believe⟳ on command.”

“Accordingly, the Ministry behaves in favor of the Party by making necessary amendments and manipulations in mass media to earn⟳ the sympathy of Oceanians.”

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