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How Does Doublethink Control People In 1984

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Newspeak is a major part of how Big Brother controls the people in 1984 because Newspeak is the way to keep creativity to a minimum, to limit the knowledge of the people, and to eliminate the ways people can speak out about Big Brother. Newspeak contrives to consistently revive Doublethink or the action of believing two completely different and contradictory ideas at once in order to control the brain of its speakers. Newspeak is destructive in nature because of its destruction words that are “useless,” but all words have a specific meaning even if their definition is close to another word. “It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can
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