Why Is Newspeak Ironic?

It is ironic because while most languages increase in size, Newspeak decreases in size justifing how the party wants total control over the people. ... This is ironic because most people today are married because they love each other.

What was the purpose of Newspeak?

The intellectual purpose of Newspeak is to make Ingsoc-approved thoughts the only expressible thoughts. As constructed, Newspeak's vocabulary communicates the exact expression of sense and meaning that a member of the Party could wish to express. It excludes secondary denotations and connotations.

Why is thoughtcrime impossible in Newspeak?

'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 year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller.