Question: 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?
The book 1984, by George Orwell, chapter 5 is telling 'us' the readers how the totalitarian regime is changing the words that are old in the old speak and puts in the new words into the newspeak, trying to make the language simpler and easier for one to speak. The totalitarian regime wants to make all humans to the use the newspeak as they believed that it would benefit them in the long term, by allowing ones vocabulary and thought to exceed what is expected. Words like synonyms and antonyms have been removed from this language as the author thought that the less word in a language the less people had to think and the less people had to think the less people were stressed and tensed.
Do you think that the aim of Newspeak is to make language more accessible for people? Does Big Brother want to ease stress?
ReplyDeleteYes I do believe that the aim of the Newspeak is to make the language more accessible it may not make life easier for the society to learn the language that the totalitarian regime have set, but however it allows an individual to think less but still as efficient.
ReplyDeleteYes I do believe that the aim of the Newspeak is to make the language more accessible it may not make life easier for the society to learn the language that the totalitarian regime have set, but however it allows an individual to think less but still as efficient.
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