In Nineteen Eighty-Four Syme is talking to Winston in attempt to explain the purpose of Newspeak, “‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’” (Orwell 52). Newspeak is another insane creation of the party that is used to control the people of Oceania. Although without further investigation, it appears that the party is just being tyrannical; however, the parallel between the goals of the party and the goals of the Boy Scouts, who have religious affiliations, are very similar. Boy scouts used to take an oath to be “Clean in thought, word, and