In this novel, the inner party uses destruction of words to decrease the amount of thinking the people in the society do. The party eliminates words such as excellent and splendid; making people use plusgood instead. Getting rid of advanced words requires the people of society to do less thinking. The less people think, the better it is for the inner party. The inner party constantly creates and destroys events and people to suit their own development. If people do not have to think and have a very limited vocabulary, then the chances of them being intelligent are very unlikely. Having a society full of simple minded people is the only way the party can make stuff up and get away with it. For example, the party can say that two plus two equals
