Imagine a world in which people are produced in factories, a world lost
of all freedom and individuality, a world where people are exiled or "disappear"
for breaking the mold. Both 1984 by George Orwell and Aldous Huxley's
Brave New World are startling depictions of such a society. Although these
novels are of fictional worlds, control of the future may be subtly evolving and
becoming far worse than Huxley or Orwell could ever have imagined. Each
society destroys the freedom of the individual through various controlling
methods such as the denial of language and literature, a caste system and
One way in which each society controls is by limiting the language and
literature of every citizen. In 1984, a language called Newspeak is devised in
order to narrow all thought into one mode. There are three categories of
Newspeak vocabulary: A, B and C. The A vocabulary consists of words used
in everyday life to express simple thoughts. The B vocabulary includes words
meant for political usage, forcing a particular mental state on the person using
the vocabulary. Finally, the C vocabulary is based solely on technical and
scientific words, constructed of only strict and rigid meanings. Individual
thought is completely impossible because the constricted vocabulary is intended
to include only principles of the Newspeak language. The vocabulary is
constructed so that words of unorthodox meaning such as "individual freedom"
are eliminated all together. Newspeak is designed to douse the flame of
thought and idea, while encouraging collective ideas. Over time, Newspeak
destroys any variation of idea from the intention of the "Party's". Literature is also slowly altered so that the author's original meaning is lost to the meaning of the Newspeak language. Newspeak translations seem to consume thoughts and memories much like a sp...