In the world of 1984, the cartoonist would have been vaporized, and all evidence of his work and existence would be removed from the record. I guess we still have a way to go. #1984https://twitter.com/jflier/status/1146018607845040128 …
Vaporized? Not wanting to be a pedant, or anything, and it's a long time since I read 1984, but isn't part of the horror of the story that dissenters are broken psychologically rather than killed? They are remade so that they no longer remember their opposition to Big Brother?
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Vaporization was Winston’s term for people disappearing (half way through my reread) - a major element of which was what you describe. Whether murdered or transformed into a mindless shell who loves Big Brother and has no unique identity, vaporization seems like a fine term.
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Winston’s job (along with many others) was to rewrite “history” on a daily basis to make it consistent with Big Brothers statements- sometimes his statements themselves were re-written. And all contrary references (and people responsible for them) were vaporized into oblivion.
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It ends with (spoiler alert) a bullet going into Winston's skull. Whether the bullet is literal or metaphorical is left up to the reader. Probably metaphorical though.
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