Love_In_Oceania

Love In Oceania Although Winston and Julia claim to have been in love since the moment they met, can anyone living in Oceania ever really be in love' In Chapter five of Book One, Winston speaks with his comrade, Syme, about how newspeak is making the actual thought of love impossible: In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it… In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking—not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness. (Orwell 46-47) Syme believes that thoughtcrime in the end will be completely unheard of, because it will be impossible to think of views that oppose the party. Using Newspeak phrases such as “doubleplusungood” limits the train of thought to only what is necessary. There are no Newspeak adverbs or adjectives that are unnecessary to describe the essential thought process. Syme also mentions how Newspeak is the only language in which the word count decreases every year. Words such as “love” are removed from the dictionary, and Party members are made to believe that because the words are not in the dictionary, they do love, winston, julia, party, words, newspeak, been, time, oceania, because, one, never, every, people, orwell, express, each, before, thought, syme, loved, impossible, first, even, characters, between, about, two, themselves, sister, pure, possibly, person, parents, over