Newspeak was
developed by the Party to replace Oldspeak, the traditional English language. In Part One of the
novel, 's friend, Syme, explains that Newspeak involves "cutting the language down to the
bone" so that all "vagueness" and "useless shades of meaning" are
destroyed.
But Newspeak is about more than clarifying meaning. Its purpose,
according to Syme, is to "narrow the range of thought" so that thoughtcrime becomes
impossible. This is based on the idea that a person cannot feel discontent with the Party if
there are...
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