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Bookmark or Share- 1984, by George Orwell: On Its Enduring Relevance - The AtlanticThe Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell’s 1984, by the British music critic Dorian Lynskey, makes a rich and compelling case for the novel as the summation of Orwell’s entire body of...
- Newspeak DictionaryNewspeak — An abridged rendition of English diabolically crafted to stifle the mind The glorious pinnacle of universal linguistic achievement and the official language of Oceania.
- Appendix: The principles of Newspeak - George OrwellNewspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc, or English Socialism. In the year 1984 there was not as yet anyone who used Newspeak as his sole means of communication, either in speech or writing.
- Newspeak in 1984 Explained - Book AnalysisNewspeak is the fictional language Orwell invented for his novel 1984. It is used to control what people are capable of thinking. The purpose of the language is to reduce “unnecessary” words and those that might lead the citizens of Oceania into thought patterns the Party wants to avoid.
- Definition and Examples of Newspeak - ThoughtCoNewspeak is the deliberately ambiguous and contradictory language used to mislead and manipulate the public. (In this general sense, the term newspeak is usually not capitalized.)
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