Structuralism, developed in the first decades of the 20th century by Saussure, focuses on the “underlying linguistic system” and its ability to “govern the individual and therefore determine the meaning” (Metzker 2010). Saussure's development of semiotics, the study of relationships between words and their meanings, can be applied to the Inner Party's political agenda to create a "stable" society. Ultimately, 1984 explores the ontological uncertainty surrounding whether or not the construction of political reality and free human expression are tied to our existing linguistic system – and whether a social institution should alter this linguistic system to implement a political ideology , be successful? The Party's use of language, or Newspeak, allows it to eradicate any possibility of thought crime by erasing any words – and its subsidiaries – that might lead to or even infer political anarchy. Newspeak contains no negative terms. For example, instead of saying “bad,” you could express your feelings through the word “bad.” Orwell admitted that the purpose of Newspeak was "not only to provide a means of expression for the world-view and habits of mind peculiar to the devotees of Ingsoc (English socialism), but to make all other modes of thought impossible", thus confirming the thesis power of language as an instrument of political discourse