... pious, they were and felt themselves close to the gods." The concept of the Golden Age has myriad different forms, be it the Dreamtime of the Australian Aborigines, or the Chinese Taoist Age of Perfect Virtue. And of course, in the West we have the merging of the pagan idea of Golden Age with the Judaeo-Christian concept of Paradise, Adam ... is a clear point in the novel about youth, it would be that it is important not to overreact to these new forms of youth culture. By the last chapter of A Clockwork Orange, the symbolic Chapter 21, Alex has grown out of his old ways, in his own tim...

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... the primary source of creating and manipulating humans in Brave New World. The next quote "Bokanovsky's Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!" (Huxley, Chapter 1) is an illustration of how the government visualizes and trusts the genetically-altered reproducing methods to maintain stability in the society. In 1984, birth control was achieved by making ... example, the government was able to establish a rule one day and the next day they can convince the people that they never established it. "2 + 2 = 5- (Orwell, Book 2 Chapter 4) is a demonstration of how the gove...

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... , labor is altered, which reduces any view inside one's mind. While the production of labor is being changed because of strife, and the lifestyle of citizens is being transformed. The chapter, "War is Peace," states that, "by the standards of the early twentieth century, even a member of the Inner Party lives an austere, laborious kind of life," ... exertion, especially with harsh conditions. Finally, the state of the society with one controlling power is, "natural [and] unavoidable," (192). The Theory and practice of Oligarchical Collection, "Chapter 3," shows the reader that, "war ...

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... special position in society, because he can truthfully see what really goes on in the world, before it is destroyed and reforged to favor the predictions of Big Brother. In chapter seven of the novel on page 80, Winston says, "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it ... all his memories of him as a child, or what society was like before the Party took control, or even his family, are all foggy or non-existent. Winston states in chapter eight that "when memory failed and written records were falsified-when that happened, the claim ...

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... year plan resulted in the largest harvest ever in the Soviet Union in the years 1934 and 1935. Mao Zedong initiated the Great Leap forward in an attempt to make Chinese citizens self sufficient and encouraged people to produce their own steel in their back yards - this lead to the greatest famine in China as citizens were too busy attempting to ... ...

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... an impartial account of Winston's thought, state of mind and emotional well-being. The language used is simplistic, with little use of metaphors or even similes. The first simile, in chapter one, "gulped down like a dose of medicine", describes perfectly to the reader Winston's feelings toward the unpleasant drink, which unfortunately he feels is needed to make him feel better. It ... ...

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... , it is possible that man can be made "unhuman". Oppression in the novel, resulting from two main themes of poverty and politics, is made quite evident from the very first chapter of "1984". From the moment that a person is born, he/she is taken control of by the Party in the first attempts to control the society as a whole. The child ... ...

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