In my opinion, I think Newspeak will work, but with certain conditions being fulfilled. First let's discuss why Newspeak will work. It is common knowledge that language is truly the "keystone to culture" for without it, we could not pass on the collective experience of society and the lessons it teaches for survival. It is the primary way that we pass on our culture from one generation to the next. It enables us to store meanings so we don't have to relearn everything with each generation. This supports one of the methods of Newspeak- suppression of definitely heretical words. Newspeak eliminates all undesirable words and such words of orthodox meanings ensuring that there are no possibilities of arriving at them by indirect methods. Therefore, when Newspeak …show more content…
This equally means one word can express one idea. And language is the only means to express thoughts concretely, clearly and efficiently. The number of words is limited therefore the number of thoughts is limited. In this way Newspeak has made new thoughts in general, not only heretical thoughts impossible. But in our world nowadays, if Newspeak were applied, it must be applied absolutely, strictly and thoroughly in order for it to work in the long run, meaning there must be some "actions". For example: Once words for "heretical thoughts" are eliminated, all records of them in the past must also be eliminated so that the next generation has indeed nothing to think about or embark on. There must be a "real memory" hole used to quickly & easily wipe and destroy subversive documents from history, which is quite hard to achieve in our society nowadays. Moreover, Newspeak must also prohibit the birth of new words or else creating new thoughts will be easy to attain as there are chances where factors for creating heretical thoughts are exposed in the society, waiting to be uncovered. Also nowadays in the world's situation where there are so many individuals who do not obey the laws, there must be methods to force them not to use Oldspeak at any time, any place. That's why I mentioned