Thursday, November 1, 2007

Removal of Words in our Society?

During the scene in the book 1984 where Winston was having lunch with Syme, Syme was talking about the significance of Newspeak in which consisted of words being vanished so that people could not express their thoughts. Even though this deletion of words is happening in Oceania in the book, I believe that it is not happening in our society. Our society has rights that enables people to express themselves whenever they want to using their preferred language. It will be difficult to get rid of words for a particular language because there are other languages that people can still use to express their thoughts leaving that so called "Newspeak" plan to be labeled as failure. For a person like Syme, living in the society that I live in every single day will be like getting beaten up every day by a bully It is more like a dead society that fits Syme perfectly that have people getting brainwashed by some telescreen, that cannot say what their conscience thinks that should be said.

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