... watch and listen to every citizen at all times through a device called a telescreen for the least signs of criminal deviation or unorthodox thoughts. This novel, like Orwell's earlier work Animal Farm and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, is an example of anti-utopian fiction, that kind of fiction which shows man at the mercy of some force over which he has ... a criticism of the time in which the author lives. Nineteen Eighty Four, a satire of totalitarian barbarism told through the eyes of Winston Smith, is no exception. Orwell deliberately keeps the plot in 1984 simple, without any na...

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... London, The Road to Wigan Pier, Homage to Catalonia and Coming up for Air. As we heard in Dominik's speech, Animal Farm is perhaps the most famous work of George Orwell. 1984, written in 1949 had a similar success as Animal Farm. Now about the book: 1984 is a nightmare picture of life in totalitarian England as it might be in the next generation ... third person and partly in first person seen through the main character's eyes. The structure of 1984 is a very simple one. Part One sets the scene. Part Two contains the plot. It begins idyllically and ends in horror. Part Three contains th...

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• Grade Level: High School