... really exist? This question haunts readers from the first to the last pages of George Orwell's novel. Sadly, the answer is "yes"; or at least Orwell hopes that readers will leave 1984 accepting the possibility enough to question government and stride cautiously into the future. Orwell intends to portray Oceania just realistically enough to convince contemporary readers that such a society has existed and could ... tyrannical, totalitarian governments. Three major themes of the novel are danger or totalitarianism, language as a mind control, and control of history which tied together th...

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... a society where the government takes all the power over its people and with limited freedom of expression is detestable. A totalitarian society in George Orwell's novel 1984 touches many disturbing aspects on the denial of a person's rights. People's lives, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are all controlled ... the ugly and perverse about human nature has prevailed, and people are powerless to resist an insidious, coercive order. I believe that Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to express his feelings of how the governments would come to control everything and anything it wishe...

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