Language Is Freedom

As a person who loves language and believe in the importance of being able to express your feelings through speech, the thought of Newspeak is frightening. In our world there are so many different languages and ways of expressing yourself, but in Oceania they try to limit you speech. I love speaking different languages and if i were only limited to being able to speak one, it would drive me absolutely insane. Big Brothers main reason for limiting language is to limit the possibility of anyone being a threat to Big Brother. That means that anyone perceived as being dangerous will be immediately snuffed out. Think of Syme. He was an incredibly brilliant guy when it came to words. The Inner party members found his intelligence to be unnerving and for that reason, they took him out. The poet Ampleforth was taken out because he left the word God in one of the poems he was suppose to revise. These people are completely shut down if they have a different way of thinking. The idea of Newspeak was to totally wipe out the possibility of speaking out against Big Brother. Living in a society like that would mean having no freedom of speech. We take our freedom of speech for granted. Imagine not being able to express your true feelings with your words. How else are supposed to express ourselves. The citizens of Oceania had to live in constant awareness of their emotions and words. They had to watch their thoughts because everything that we think eventually becomes words that we speak. they are limited in Thought because they can’t express their thoughts freely. Winston himself has different views from the Party and had to conceal his true feelings by acting like everyone else. Language has been a tool of expression for many years, and i don't believe that it is possible to completely erase all the languages of the world and make it into one central language. if anything, i think it is impossible. Not being able to express your opinions is very suffocating and i don't think anyone in our present world has the capability of doing that. You might be able to control the actions of a person, but it is near impossible to control their thoughts. Big Brother might be controlling the party members's actions but there will always be people like Winston who go against People like Big Brother.