Week 8- 1984

“It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms….Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we're not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there's no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It's merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won't be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,' he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. 'Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?”

              The passage reveals an indignant effect of the beauty of various words and their meaning as numerous words lead to the expansion of mental individuality.  Syme insists “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words… the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought… Every concept that can ever be needed will be expressed by exactly one word.” Although Syme’s persuasion shows the narrowing of words reveals the narrowing of thought and mental effort, his persuasion also implicitly emphasizes that vocabulary expansion manifests consciousness of thought and reason. This is shown through Syme’s argument of “Every year fewer and fewer words and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.” Though the tone of Syme’s argument is aimed to belittle the vast variety of words, his argument creates a reversal effect of manifesting a realization that words generate mental sensibility.