Dystopian Journal 1

TOPIC A:
As Wilson is eating lunch one day at the ministry he finds himself talking to another party member about newspeak, “In the end we will make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it,” (Orwell 52). This passage is an example of the party’s plan to take power away from the people of Oceania. We find that the purpose of newspeak is to make it impossible for people to think intelligently. By doing this the party can easily take advantage of the people and it would be nearly impossible for the people of the country to fight back in anyway.
This is one of the most important aspects of Orwell’s dystopia in 1984. The fear and dehumanization of the people is one thing but even over time history has shown us that societies that use fear for control do not last. Making the population incapable of deep thought is a tactic that could secure power over the population for a very long time. It is a philosophy that thoughts are constricted by vocabulary because people think in words. If this is true then if a government can deteriorate the language of their people then such thoughts needed to even contemplate rebellion would not even be possible in the minds of the rebellious.