Mechanical and routine are the words used by the American Heritage Dictionary, to define the term dehumanization. Dehumanization also means to deprive of human qualities such as individuality, compassion, or civility. In 1984, Big Brother, manages to take all three of these qualities away in the society which they live. Without these qualities, a person's self worth is taken away from them and forced to obey a higher power.
             The state dehumanized the people because they did not allow them to have any self worth. Every aspect of their lives was controlled. From using the bathroom to sleeping, one false move anywhere or one bad thought, and you could loose your life. The state did not allow the people to think for themselves. "It seemed to him (Winston) that it was only now, when he had begun to be able to formulate his thoughts, that he had taken the decisive step. The consequence...Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death" (Orwell pg. 27). That is how people had to think, to formulate your own ideas was a sure sentence to death. What the Party said is all that you could believe.
             Thinking freely was a major offence in 1984, so detestable that the Party had an official language called Newspeak. Newspeak was an attempt to condense the vocabulary so that people could not think on their own. They felt that if there was not a word in Newspeak that could express feelings then there was going to be no thoughtcrimes. When you limit language a persons consciousness is taken away, therefore they become illiterate. Winston was a major threat to the Party because he had a developed understanding of language. He had the language and the memory to try to search for a first reality, and not be satisfied with a second reality.
             The state did not allow privacy. The Party's idea, was that if you had to have privacy that you thinking bad thoughts. When Julia fell in front of Winston and put ...