Why is the ruthless totalitarian regime, described in
Orwell’s novel purging Oldspeak and imposing Newspeak? What assumptions are
being made about the relationship between language and thought?
They are imposing Newspeak in order to eliminate words that are
looked at as unnecessary or useless. They believe that there are extra words in
Oldspeak that could be replaced by simply changing one word so that with these
changes, could have the different meanings of words. For example, instead of
“good” and “bad” it will just be “ungood.” By removing Oldspeak, many words
will be removed as well, in order to establish a simpler and more direct use of
language.
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Is there not a darker motivation behind the project of imposing newspeak? What does Big Brother want to control by controlling the language?
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