Newspeakニュースピーク
An artificial language designed to constrain thought itself. By steadily shrinking the vocabulary, it renders ideas hostile to the regime literally unthinkable.
Big Brotherビッグ・ブラザー
The emblem of the dictator who watches every citizen. Whether he exists at all is unknown, yet his eye is everywhere. Posters throughout the city carry the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
Thoughtcrime思想犯罪
The idea that merely holding a thought against the regime is itself a crime. Not one’s actions, but one’s inner mind, becomes the object of punishment.
Somaソーマ
An all-purpose drug that dissolves pain and anxiety without side effects. Given happiness by soma, the people no longer need to question anything.
Panopticonパノプティコン
A ring-shaped prison built so that every cell can be seen from a single central tower. The mere awareness that one might be watched is enough to make people obedient.
Jeremy Bentham (prison design)Memory Hole記憶の穴
A chute for incinerating inconvenient records. It erases the facts of the past, rewriting history to fit the regime of the present.
Doublethink二重思考
The mental discipline of holding two contradictory beliefs at once and accepting both as true. It makes total obedience to the regime possible.
Telescreenテレスクリーン
A device placed in every home and on every street corner, broadcasting propaganda while it watches people’s movements and conversations at the same time. Its sound can be turned low, but never fully switched off.
Thought Police思考警察
The secret police who watch the inner mind and hunt out any thought against the regime — thoughtcrime. Through informers and a net of surveillance, not even a rebellion kept in silence escapes them.
Caste System (Alpha to Epsilon)階級制（アルファ〜イプシロン）
A system that sorts human beings into five castes before birth, fixing even their intelligence and their role. So that none will feel discontent, each is tuned to a happiness that is “just right.”
Firemen昇火士（ファイアマン）
Men whose work is not to put fires out but to set them — burning books. By turning knowledge to ash, they preserve the “peace” of society.
OneState単一国
A nation where citizens are called by numbers and live in rooms of glass. Life runs to a fixed timetable, and the “harmony” of the whole is placed above the individual.
Gileadギレアデ
A religious dictatorship founded on the pretext of a falling birth rate. Women are managed by assigned role, stripped of property, of their names, even of the freedom to read.
Handmaid侍女
Women placed in the households of the powerful for the sole purpose of bearing children, allowed neither a name nor a life of their own. Like “Offred,” each is called by the name of her master.
Replicantレプリカント
An artificial human built so finely as to be indistinguishable from a person. Set to dangerous labor, given a lifespan of only four years, and “retired” — killed — should it resist.
Totalitarianism全体主義
A system in which the state seeks to cover not only politics but thought and daily life, down to their smallest corners, with a single set of values. The private realm quietly disappears.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of TotalitarianismThe Banality of Evil悪の凡庸さ
The observation that great evil is carried out not by exceptional monsters, but by “ordinary people” who follow orders without ever questioning them.
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem