![]() In his Appendix, Orwell explains the syntactical arrangement and the etymology of the Newspeak. Without a word for freedom, for example, the concept of freedom cannot exist. To illustrate this idea that language can corrupt thought and that totalitarian systems use language to restrict, rather than broaden, ideas, Orwell created Newspeak, the official language of Oceania. Here is the very concept behind the invention of Newspeak. "When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer," Orwell writes in his essay, "Politics and the English Language." "If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought," he continues. ![]() ![]() Although he had no solid proof, he presumed that the languages of countries under dictatorships, such as the Soviet Union or Germany, had deteriorated under their respective regimes. Orwell was sure that the decline of a language had political and economic causes. ![]()
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