5. In 1940 Benjamin Lee Whorf wrote an article linking how the words we are introduced to in our daily lives lay out constraints to a person level of consciousness and the thoughts they are able to have. Orwell G. ‘s 1984 explores this relationship by showcasing a government that is prepared to risk any further progress of its people by diminishing the language referred to as Oldspeak in order to erase any possibilities of thought and consciousness cementing their control over the population of Oceania. The Party set to do so by the destruction of thought to avoid thoughtcrime, they control the past preventing Doublethink and through the diminishing and the destruction of words is how duckspeak was acquired. The Party set this by the creation …show more content…
In the Newspeak Dictionary added as an appendix to the novel it explains that “Countless words such as honor, justice, morality internationalism, democracy, science and religion had simply ceased to exist”(Orwell 2008:318).Without this words the population was being denied of ways to fully express themselves. Other words were just stripped of their meaning leading up to them being used to express petty events that occurred in everyday life. Most of the words that were stripped are words were related to liberty or equality, all this fell under the umbrella word ‘crimethink’. The word equal was now used to describe sameness of a population but not its true meaning of political equality. This was just another of the Party’s ways to manipulate its people, for they could not fathom that they were not all on the same level. Hierarchy was evident with the proles at the bottom as the Party considered them as animals and inner Party members with open benefits better like having real food and not just victory food at the …show more content…
Science is a word best associated with progress of a nation through its discoveries, such association meant that everything that was created in Oceania will be linked to the greatness of the party, history books showed evidence of this by saying that “the Party had invented aeroplanes” (Orwell 2008:38). Having done this the party garnered support from its people who would ultimately think that without it they would halt in progress and Oceania will be in