However, the implementation of Newspeak could be the most important part of keeping power over the lower classes. The goal of Newspeak is to simplify language. The dictionary is continuously being slimmed down, unnecessary words being removed. In the modern English dictionary, there are hundreds of words that share meanings with one another but have different emphasis. In Orwell’s Newspeak dictionary, words such as “great” and “excellent” will be replaced with “plusgood” and “doubleplusgood”. The Party is using Newspeak to “narrow the range of thought… make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it,” as according to Syme, one of the men behind the Newspeak dictionary. (Orwell 52). When the spoken and written word is ineloquent, none will have the capacity to make an original thought. With only a handful of words to choose from, opinions will almost disappear. When one person thinks something is “atrocious”, the next might think it is “terrible”, but both, when speaking Newspeak, would call it “doubleplusbad”. The only variation of opinions will be in the modifiers. As Syme said, when the language is condensed, thoughtcrime will gradually fade from
However, the implementation of Newspeak could be the most important part of keeping power over the lower classes. The goal of Newspeak is to simplify language. The dictionary is continuously being slimmed down, unnecessary words being removed. In the modern English dictionary, there are hundreds of words that share meanings with one another but have different emphasis. In Orwell’s Newspeak dictionary, words such as “great” and “excellent” will be replaced with “plusgood” and “doubleplusgood”. The Party is using Newspeak to “narrow the range of thought… make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it,” as according to Syme, one of the men behind the Newspeak dictionary. (Orwell 52). When the spoken and written word is ineloquent, none will have the capacity to make an original thought. With only a handful of words to choose from, opinions will almost disappear. When one person thinks something is “atrocious”, the next might think it is “terrible”, but both, when speaking Newspeak, would call it “doubleplusbad”. The only variation of opinions will be in the modifiers. As Syme said, when the language is condensed, thoughtcrime will gradually fade from