He demonstrated the repeated abuse of language by the government and by the media in his novel. Orwell also showed how language can be used politically to deceive and manipulate people, leading to a society in which the people unquestioningly obey their government and mindlessly accept all propaganda as reality. Language becomes a mind-control tool, and the ultimate goal of it's masters is the destruction of will and imagination of the public.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell clearly outlines the goal of language "advancement". The goal of the Party is to dominate every single person's consciousness and make them into slaves that will strive to accomplish whatever the party needs. The best way to do that would be to make the party look discrete, flawless, without any sort of negative thought or emotion attached to it. The best way of achieving that would be to alter the thinking of people and since people of that time are living in the modern world and literature as well as audio/visual media are already available to the public, the party bases their advances on media. People generally strive to expand their lexicon, the government in Nineteen Eighty-Four actually aims to cut back the Newspeak vocabulary. One of the Newspeak engineers says, "[we"re] cutting the language down to the bone . . . Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year". By manipulating the language, the government wishes to alter the public's way of thinking. This can be done, psychologists theorise, because the words that are available for the purpose of communicating thought tend to influence the way people think.
Alteration of the past became procedural, it was being carried out on the daily basis. "Telescreenes" now constantly viewed information that brought up greatness and beauty of the party, the Big Brother. The process lasted for many years and people now were born and died in this kind of atmosphere, possessing no more knowledge then the rest of the people around them and knowing only what the party allowed to know.
