Newspeak

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Why is Newspeak in the novel? I don't get it, there dosen't seeem to be any point in it, and there is no relation to the novel. Every once in a while somrthing pops up about Newspeak!

[The Atheist]

Why is Newspeak in the novel? I don't get it, there dosen't seeem to be any point in it, and there is no relation to the novel. Every once in a while somrthing pops up about Newspeak!

The bad news is that if you missed the reasons for Newspeak, you prbably missed the whole point of the novel.

Newspeak was designed to make it impossible for people to have seditious thoughts. The scenario - which is wrong in reality - is that if people cannot express ideas like freedom, fairness and love, with language, they will be unable to feel the need for them, or even understand what they are.

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Oh, that's why the language is getting cut down. That is how they are controlling people. I was never absolutely shure of that situation. Thanks for your help!

[EmpoleonTrain]

Newspeak is included in the novel to reduce people's vocabulary so they are unable to describe things. If a person cannot describe something, it makes it harder for them to question it.

For example: Love.

Winston was so accustomed to the social accord of Oceania that he had no clue how to handle it when Julia told him she loved him. He no longer had the ability to decipher those feelings, because he no longer had those descriptive words in his vocabulary.


Another good example of this is when Winston is questioning the old man in the antique shop. Winston repeatedly asks the man if it was better before, and the man just says he doesn't know. This shows that even if he had remembered, the introduction of Newspeak has left him unable to describe to Winston how the world was before the time of Big Brother.