1984 #11

“There is a word in Newspeak, I don’t know whether you know it: duckspeak, to quack like a duck” (pg. 54). The government came up with its own language, with less words than English. The idea is to eliminate expressions and to control speech. Controlling speech would eventually allow the government to control thoughts and actions. With Newspeak there becomes even more control for the party and less and less individualism for the people. Orwell shows the intensity of a world enveloped in communism, and possible effects of government controlling language.