George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984 tackles power, autocracy, and the use of language to manipulate the working class. In an effort to control information and the likelihood of a rebellion, the ruling class implemented Newspeak, which is a shorthand version of English or Oldspeak, meant to limit people’s ideas through the use of a narrow […]
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