"For an idea to exist, we must have words to express it."
I disagree with this statement. I believe that you can have an idea without words to express it, but it makes it much harder to communicate to others without words. It is possible however. A person can convey emotions or ideas through art, music or dance. A glance or a touch can convey love or hate. It's certainly not as simple as telling someone, but it's not impossible.
The Party in 1984 believes that by eliminating all words that would correspond to revolutionary ideas in Newspeak it can create a society that is one hundred percent obedient. However, in 1984 the Party is constantly arresting and vaporizing people that it feels are possibly dangerous. Dangerous people are described as ones that might have ideas that could ruin the Party. These ideas never occur to the "good" Party members because they are shallow and never have an original idea. The more intelligent Party members think for themselves and come up with ideas that the party does not support or tell them. This proves that the Party's elimination of "bad" words will be unsuccessful. Freedom is a concept that will always exist despite the attempts to quash it.
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Audrey, your points are very convincing. But do you recall when Syme was vaporized, not because he wasn’t supportive of the Party, but because he was TOO intelligent? Syme was part of the development for the newest edition for the Newspeak dictionary and he was considered a threat to the society because he was intelligent enough to find other ways to express his ideas. By his participation in eliminating words of the Newspeak language, he found ways to express himself without an excess of words, and if he ever had the chance to- he would probably be able to get his ideas across without any words at all.
-Janice Vong
I agree with your idea that ideas can exist without words. However I disagree that an idea can be conveyed any other way. The other ways you listed are ways to convey an idea, except each of them is connected to words. You can definitely convey feelings, such as hate or love, without using words, but this is because everyone knows feelings. You cannot convey ideas, such as freedom, without explaining it through words, or images representing words, or any other form of words.
(one above by Megan Flood)
I agree with Audrey. I believe that an idea can exist without having a word to express it. Music is a good way to show this. In the book a prole woman sings a song as she passes Winston. In the book it says that the song touches Winston. There are others ways such as art, in the book there are posters hanging around to get points across. I think that sometimes words help some ideas exist, but they aren't necessary.
Daylee Baker
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