Nineteen Eighty-Four
Nineteen Eighty-Four (dystopia) | |
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Type | fiction |
Publication date | 1949 |
Author(s) | George Orwell |
Subjects | new world order, totalitarianism, newspeak, doublespeak |
A critically acclaimed and some have said all too prophetic warning about totalitarian government. |
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dark novel about a totalitarian future of perpetual war.
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Orwell coins many new words in the novel, which he describes as 'Newspeak'.
The majority of the citizens ('the proles') are routinely deceived and swindled by a small minority of party members.
Party members' lives are more disciplined, so for example they are expected to attend the daily "2 minutes of hate" session during which they focus on enemy images.
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