The Appendix on Newspeak is the book's real argument — Orwell's operational claim is that you can design a vocabulary in which dissenting thoughts literally cannot be formulated. Words like 'free' survive only in trivial senses ('this dog is free of lice'); 'bad' becomes 'ungood.' The range of thought shrinks because the language shrinks. This is not a novelistic flourish; it is a political technology proposal.
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