Orwell and Burgess both employ a unique language in order to reveal an authoritarian society and the consequences it leads to. In 1984, Orwell acknowledges how language can be used to lead the reader in specific ways and thereby derives his own language of “Newspeak”. He uses this to portray the power language has in manipulating society and maintaining control. Orwell utilizes language as a tool to repress individuality by purposefully limiting the use of metaphors and figurative speech within “Newspeak”. It can thus be said that the fundamental purpose of “Newspeak” is to depict the “limitation of thought”. The reader soon notices that language spoken within the novel is also important in the perpetuation of control. This is reinforced by the way the party are “getting the language into its final shape by the “destruction of the words”.…show more content… For example, “the dog is free of lice”; the word “free” here can only be used in this context and not for constituting liberty. Hence this serves the purpose to eliminate the concept of liberty by the eradication of words equated to liberty or individuality. This aids to the concept of narrowing the “range of thought”, which decreases the vocabulary each day for the reason that “the smaller the area of choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought”. Further inference highlights that a reduction in vocabulary could incite difficulty in memory recall, which eliminates potential rebellions, like Winston, who remember a life “before the party”. Winston is exploited to this as following his exposure on Ingsoc, “he can no longer fix his mind on any one
