Living in 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 ... is a compelling novel; for it represents an important guide to life for all human beings. It also teaches us that living in a totalitarian government is dangerous because it's like living in a world of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons. Futhermore, it gives us the warning to the ... the possibility f...

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... 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 exist again if people forget ... the lessons taught by history, or fail to guard against tyrannical, totalitarian governments. Three major themes of the novel are danger or totalitarianism, language as a mind control, and control o...

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Newspeak is a name given to the forecoming language of the totalitarian society portrayed in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. The language itself is a supposed creation by Big Brother, the fictitious political figure made up by the Inner Party - the government of Oceania, INGSOC. The language of Newspeak is the product of diminishing and reducing of words thought unnecessary in the existing language - the ... same as Modern English - by the government, resulting in a smaller vocabulary. This way the totalitarian leaders of Oceania, the Inner Party, can control the knowledge of the people in th...

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