1984 Importance of Language; Newspeak Doublethink and how it affects personal thought and freedom

Importance of Language; Newspeak. It is the intention of the government to make it impossible to convey any nonconformist thoughts. Hence Newspeak was designed for this very intention. To narrow down what people can actually say and think, the rules of language are being skewed from what we actually say right now. Negative terms have been eliminated from the language. In Newspeak, "bad" and "awful" are altered to mean "ungood" or "doubleplus ungood." This language …showed first 75 words of 726 total…

…showed last 75 words of 726 total…someone can just believe what he or she are told without proof is strange. How this affects personal thought is that the idea is integrated with out proof. How this affects our freedom is that we are putting it on the line without evidence. Just because we "think" there are weapons doesn't mean that there are weapons. We are limiting not only our own freedom but also that of others in the world as well.