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1984

Topic: The Language of Newspeak

The opening of the language newspeak starts in Part I chapter five with Syme telling Winston that he is working on the eleventh edition of the Newspeak Dictionary. Syms explains how they are destroying hundreds of words everyday "cutting the language down to the bone". As Sym's is giving details as to how it is all being done the importance of the project starts to sink in, it is not just language that is being destroyed, it is the effort to wipe out consciousness and thought itself.
The significant role that the language Newspeak plays in the story is that the Big Brother is trying to create a new language. The intention of creating a new language and destroying words is to eventually limit the range of thought that the party members have. By destroying words and simplifying the language the Party members will have hardly any number of ways in which they can communicate with themselves and this can be closely watched......


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Approximate Word Count: 304
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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