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Ministry Of Truth Thought Police
714 wordsWinston Smith works in London at the Ministry of Truth. London is a city in Airstrip One, a Province of Oceania. The Party with Big Brother as its leader rules Oceania, a totalitarian state and one of the great powers of the world. Winston is secretly dissatisfied with his life under the inflexible and paternalistic government and decides to keep a diary of his thoughts. This is considered a crime in Oceania and Winston knows that he will be eventually discovered by the Thought Police. To bind t...
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1,883 words1984: The Quintessential Negative Utopia (Or How to become really depressed about the future of the human condition in 267 pages or less. ) 1984 is George Orwell's arguably his most famous novel, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever made against the dangers of a totalitarian society. George Orwell was primarily a political novelist as a result of his life experiences. In Spain, Germany, and Russia, Orwell had seen for himself the peril of absolute political authority in an age o...
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World War Ii Larger Than Life
1,329 words1. ) List the title and author of the work you read? 1984 written by George Orwell which is a pen name for Eric Blair, his real name. 2. ) Briefly describe the plot (action) of the work. What happens? 1984 a story of dictators who are in complete control of a large part of the world after the allies lost in World War II. The government in this novel gives no freedoms to its citizens. They live in fear because they are afraid of having corrupt thoughts about the governments of Oceania, a crime pu...
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George Orwell Big Brother
677 wordsMany great novels have been written on many different topics, George Orwell's 1984 is no exception to this. This novel takes place in a country called Oceania; it is what is left of a destroyed London city, in 1984. There are only three continents according to the book, Oceania, Eurasia and East asia. These three countries are always at war that is why most of them are described to be in ruins. Oceania is controlled by a government called Big Brother. Big Brother has taken total control of every...
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Osama Bin Laden World War Ii
1,296 wordsThe year 2002 has finally arrived. This is a time to take a retrospective look at what has happened in the previous year. The same thing happened in 1984. Back then; the people decided if what George Orwell had predicted in his novel had come true. Taking a quick glance, the appearance of the society then, compared with the fictional society of 1984 was like night and day. But, on further inspection, George Orwell's predictions were really not that far off. Now in 2002, the evidence of a 1984 li...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Matter Of Fact
1,055 wordster> The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc. (Emmanuel Goldstein in The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, ch. 3). Discuss with respect to George Orwell's vision of society in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell's society displays a threatening projection of a totalitarian system into the future. Indeed it is a regime very similar to the tyrannies of the 20 th ce...
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Facets Of Russian Communism Within Fictional Utopian Literature
2,464 wordsHistorically, fictional literature has been used to reflect on the life of the time in which it is written. Authors, thrown by the system and displeased by developments, take what they know and use it to make a statement. Over the course of history, authors have jabbed huge incidents such as the French Revolution in Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities, missionary invasion and Chinese poverty in Pearl S. Bucks The Good Earth, and Chinese Communism in Anchor Mins Becoming Madame Mao. On the topic...
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War Is Peace Ministry Of Truth
771 wordsProbably the most important thing to remember while reading 1984 is that Orwell never intended the book to be a prediction of the future. It was more or less a satire of political fiction, however, I believe Orwell was on the right track concerning future possibilities of a New World Order, or total government control. An interesting quotation from the book is from the "thought police" when they say "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. " I believ...
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Appearance And Reality Value Judgments
1,494 wordsIn spoken or written language, words are used to express thoughts. Words provide humans with an effective way of transferring and communicating thoughts. But can thoughts exist without words? If there are no words to convey thoughts, do thoughts really exist? Can language be used to manipulate other disciplines? After a careful analysis it becomes clear that thoughts can not exist without language, making language the ultimate tool for controlling all other disciplines of knowledge. In order to ...
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Winston And Julia Emmanuel Goldstein
1,528 words... if they wake up one day and realize that they are not living the kind of life they could be. But will they wake up? Tormented by memories and searching for answers, Winston walks aimlessly through a prole area. He tries to talk to an old man about the past, but can't seem to get anywhere. Eventually, he finds himself in front of the antique shop where he had bought the diary. He enters, starts to chat with Mr. Charrington (the proprietor), and wanders through the quaint antiques. He buys a b...
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Sex And Love In Orwell 1984
1,082 wordsGeorge Orwell's novel 1984 explores intimate human relationships in a bleak futuristic society as experienced by protagonist Winston Smith. Since there are few bonds stronger than those developed from loving relationships among family, friends, and lovers, the only entity acceptable to love in Oceania is the face of the Party, Big Brother. This restriction is necessary to achieving complete power and control over its citizens, as the Party must dissolve all loyalties derived through love, sex, a...
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Working Class Thought Police
1,007 words... him. In The Immorality Of Capitalism, Marx describes the inevitable collapse of capitalism and the united revolution of the working class proletariat. The proletariat working class in Marx's philosophy are represented by the proles of 1984. Although the proles make up 80 % of the population, they are barely mentioned in the novel. The question remains, why did Orwell's proles not rise up as they should have according to Marx? The reader gets the impression that the proles are really seen as ...
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Attempt To Control George Orwell
785 wordsGeorge Orwell's 1984 is a book about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of The Party which rules the nation of Oceania. The province of Oceania in London is the place where our first and main character Winston Smith lives. There are signs reminding citizens that Big Brother is always watching. Big Brother is the leader of the party in which Winston is a part of as well as all the people of Oceania. The Party watches him everywhere through devices, which are seemingly a combination of television...
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Brave New World Ministry Of Love
1,807 wordsGeorge Orwell 1984 - a book report by Olivier Still -Author: George Orwell (his real name was Eric Blair), was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police, the following two years he lived in Paris and after that went back to England as a schoolteacher. Later he worked in a bookshop and went to Spain in 1937 to fight for the Republicans, but was wounded. During WW II he was a member of the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. I...
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Ministry Of Truth Totalitarian Regime
1,217 wordsFear, confusion and intimidation are not just feelings. If they are used in the right way they can be used for control and power. A dictator in a totalitarian regime will use these emotions to control his people. The world that Winston Smith lives in has no personal rights, poor living conditions, and everything is controlled by hatred, even the peoples history and language. The language Newspeak is being implemented by the government to limit the possibility of political rebellion by eliminatin...
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Orwell Big Brother
244 wordsGeorge Orwell's 1984 was a book on how the government, Big Brother, had total control over the people of Oceania. There are many reasons to believe that our own world is slowly becoming the nightmare. Since the publication in 1949, Orwell? s novel has consistently triggered heated debates about whether or not our society has become like Oceania, how accurate Orwell? s predictions were, and which political parties? philosophies most resemble Ingsoc. The world we live in resembles Orwell? s depict...
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Emmanuel Goldstein Winston Smith
807 wordsIn society today, education is a major factor in the lives of many Americans. In most cases, the higher the level of education a person has, the better their chance of succeeding in an environment they enjoy working in, and living an overall productive life. On the contrary, however, in George Orwell's 1984, the less the citizens of Oceania knew, the better. One of the three truths that the Party presented summed up the ways if Big Brother in just three words: Ignorance is strength. The people w...
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Type Of Irony Verbal Irony
423 wordsironies in the novel 1984 george Orwell THE IRONIES OF 1984 The novel 1984, by George Orwell, has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony, are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each fromthe book. The first type of irony is verbal irony, in which a person says order something one way, but the true meaning is the opposite. One of theirs example of...
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Patrick Mc Murphy Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
1,258 wordsConor Cook English IX-B September 21, 2000 Radical Rebellion George Orwell's 1984 and Ken Keys One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest are two excellent and closely related novels. Set in two very different times, these two novels are essentially about the rebellious fighting spirit of individuals. Authority in 1984 is depicted in the form of the Party, which rules over Oceania. In One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Nurse Ratched and her staff are the authority figures. 1984 s protagonist, Winston Smith, fi...
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Brave New World Tele Screens
1,388 wordsSubmission of Societies Nicole Simes English 11 " Oppression that cannot be overcome does not give rise to revolt but to submission. " This concept can be clearly seen in both Brave New World and 1984, even though the structure of their societies are different. The goal of their respective governments is the same, total control of society. The governments use similar tactics of manipulation, with the purpose of keeping the majority in ignorance and submission. The governments in 1984 a...
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