Language as the “Ultimate Weapon” in Nineteen Eighty-Four

The article "Language as the 'Ultimate Weapon' in Nineteen Eighty-Four" written by Jem Berkes tell us that in this novel a very important weapon that the government use to control the society is the language because this important tool that the people use to express their ideas is the one that allows us as humans think and express freely about all the things and situations that take place in our lives, the ones that can be positive for us and for the other people and also the negatives, the latter being very destructive for the government in the "1984" novel because the government here have to be praised and never judged.

Jem Berkes (2000) says in his article that the language is something that allows us as humans communicate our ideas in different ways, characteristic that is very beneficent for us because this help us to think in a more free and creative way, this being supported by Myers (1986) who said that "expanding our language is expanding the ability to think" and that "different languages impose different conceptions of reality", ideas that are clearly logic because between more words and ways to express we have, more ways of thinking and reason the situations we can use in order to attach the idea in a clearly and existent way that other people can understand easily. 

Like O’Brien say "People can't commit crimes if there's not a world or concept who describe it". We need words in order to imagine and create new things.

Why is the Nineteen Eighty-Four novel by George Orwell relevant to a student taking the Programming Language course?

The novel is the perfect counterexample of our reality speaking of programming languages. Imagine you want to solve a problem which use an object oriented approach and there's only ONE programming language to use, not a very rich one, and it is also a functional language. Then you are in problems, that's why the variety in languages is important so you can express anything you want in the best way possible.

If you're interested in reading this article: here's the link: Language as the “Ultimate Weapon” in Nineteen Eighty-Four.

If you're interested in reading George Orwell's: 1984's novel, here's the link: Nineteen Eighty-Four.