Friday, November 6, 2009

Nineteen Eighty-Four Novel Summary 5

During Winston's lunch break he meets up and sits with one of his colleagues called Symes. Symes is an extremely intelligent man and his job is to help create and expand the language of newspeak. He is currently working on a new edition of newspeak dictionary with all new words. Syme is the kind of guy that Winston thinks would turn people over to the thought police out of loyalty but also thought that symes was the kind of guy to get caught and "vaporised" for being to smart. Symes, being a fanatic of News speak rambles on about how they are planning to eliminate as much words as they can to create a sort of mindless robotic language by replacing words like excellent, good, and bad by words like Good Plusgood and ungood and completely eliminate words and whole concepts like freedom. Winston then noticed the girl from his dreams staring at him from across the cafeteria which makes Winston uncomfortable.

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