Everyday in 1984, words are deleted and new dictionaries with less pages are created under the command of Big Brother. His corruption of power desires him to maintain the way he has control. In order to keep his power and prevent people from overthrowing him, he minimizes their diction. Due to his near defeat by Goldstein, a figure that shows rebellion can be done, Big Brother takes the citizen’s freedom of speech bit by bit. The depletion of words also depletes the characters’ range of thought, instead of expanding it. The less words the characters know, the more simple sentences they’ll form and the less they’ll understand. Newspeak, removes words that carry opposite ideas. For example, the word "good", because it’s an antonym of "bad,"
