Good, Ungood and Plusgood the vocabulary of emotionless writing

Now that I have reached chapter five of the book 1984. Winston has kind of grown on to me. I eagerly await what he will do next. The suspension of if he will ever breakaway from the party is so much to bear. His heart is their, but he doesn't have the resolve. However this chapter was refreshing. Though it had the same elements of secrecy and the unveiling of the parties true nature. It also had one thing that really grabbed my attention. The destruction of what is called in Oceania "oldspeak". You see Winston talks to an enthusiastic worker named Syme. Syme talks excitdley to Winston about the new forming of Newspeak(the official language of Oceania). The detail that grabbed my attention was the fact that instead of making Newspeak more intricate and complex. They were actually destroying words from the language. In short words would have basically main roots and it would be impossible to convey any deep secret meanings and messages when your language is decimated to the basics. This idea of simplifying language is actual something I myself have had odd opinions about for many years. I always saw the simplification of a difficult language a good thing. I frowned towards languages like Cantonese or Japanese, because I felt the memorization of thousands of symbols is pointless. But now I see that when you have a wider vocabulary the easier and more efficiently you can convey a message. This destruction of intricate language falls under another subliminal way the party is destroying human decision and nature. In fact I have decided to add to our blog a listing post which lists everyone single subliminal message Fernando and I have found that the party uses.
Wow...this is a long post. Something else that really made me want to read more was the syllogism Winston used in the story. He conveys that the party doesn't want people who have complete understanding of their principles, or people who do not shout enthusiastically for their principals(contradicting syllogism Ms.G). Those who do not have what the party wants "disappears". Those who graps all the priciples of the party are those the party does not want. Syme( the man who is building the new newspeak) has a complete understanding of their principles. So Winston predicts that Syme would "disappear". He later talks about another man named Parsons. Parsons on the other hand wasn't as resourceful as the other workers. He however was the most active in the parties work. He as Winston describes him was the perfect party member. A man who knew nothing, but how to shout enthusiastically for his party. This may seem like a evil conniving idea of a man who blindly follows, but isn't it said today that behind one smart person is a hundred stupid people following? In the end I wonder if what Winston said was true about himself. He stated that he himself would soon be gone since he didn't fit the role the party wanted for him. This might be a hint for what is later to come.