euphemism: (from the Greek, "good speech") a more agreeable or less unpleasant substitute for a generally unpleasant word or concept
"Will you understand, Winston, that no one whom we bring to this place ever leaves our hands uncured?"
-1984
by George Orwell
The euphemism here is "uncured." In reality, no one ever leaves the Thought police untortured, unscathed, unbroken, mentally stable, physically stable, emotionally aware, and many other things. Orwell chooses to have this message displayed in a euphemism as it reflects the thoughts of the totalitarian government. Orwell was trying to communicate that the world is headed toward a time when cured will mean broken, completely controllable, and tortured. He was trying to warn his contemporaries of what he saw as a probable future, by using the euphemism and communicating the way the government and the world will operate and interpret things.
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