Control of Language

One can only communicate if they have the words with which to express themselves. Native speakers forget about this until they are dropped in a foreign land and don't have the power to ask the simplest of questions. This gap in the ability to communicate prevents certain ideas from being verbalized. With the invention and propagation of newspeak, these limits on communication are realized. Orwell uses this to show that, while society may think that what people think and saw may be uncontrollable, the ability to articulate ideas is taken away the ideas disappear too. In controlling what the people can say, The Party effectively can control how they think and therefore eliminate the chance for anti-Party thoughts.