Newspeak is “the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs on Ingsoc” (299). The purpose of Newspeak is to restrict the vocabulary of the inhabitants of Oceania in order to reduce the formation of rebellious thoughts. Parallel to North Korea, when Lisa Ling from National Geographic’s Inside North Korea asked: “Can the great leader do anything wrong?”, the man seemed genuinely confused because “it seemed there wasn’t vocabulary to question the leader” (National Geographic). Each year, the dictionary of Newspeak decreases in size as there is an increase in the elimination of words. Syme, an associate of Winston’s, describes the process as a wonderful concept: “we’re destroying words-scores of them...we’re cutting the language down to the bone” (51). By establishing a limitation on one’s vocabulary, it restricts the freedom to say what one wants, a restraint on the kind of freedom advocated for by Emmanuel Goldstein. In both Oceania and North Korea,“There is no freedom; it is a country run on tyranny and dictatorship” (National
Newspeak is “the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs on Ingsoc” (299). The purpose of Newspeak is to restrict the vocabulary of the inhabitants of Oceania in order to reduce the formation of rebellious thoughts. Parallel to North Korea, when Lisa Ling from National Geographic’s Inside North Korea asked: “Can the great leader do anything wrong?”, the man seemed genuinely confused because “it seemed there wasn’t vocabulary to question the leader” (National Geographic). Each year, the dictionary of Newspeak decreases in size as there is an increase in the elimination of words. Syme, an associate of Winston’s, describes the process as a wonderful concept: “we’re destroying words-scores of them...we’re cutting the language down to the bone” (51). By establishing a limitation on one’s vocabulary, it restricts the freedom to say what one wants, a restraint on the kind of freedom advocated for by Emmanuel Goldstein. In both Oceania and North Korea,“There is no freedom; it is a country run on tyranny and dictatorship” (National