... of the book, although the two are intricately linked. Nineteen Eighty-Four wholly takes place in a dystopian Britain, (or Airstrip One as it is known in the novel) which forms a part of Oceania, one of the three world super-states established within the plot, the other two being Eurasia and Eastasia. The action follows Winston Smith, a worker within the country's totalitarian ... it is the Proles that could relatively easily overthrow their heavily outnumbered rulers due to their sheer numbers (this is noted by Winston who claims on the first line of chapter seven 'if there is hope...

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... this question to refer to the problematic subjectivity of the modern man, as being inevitably affected by the great influence and omnipresence of ideology. This extract, which is taken from chapter eight of George Orwell's Animal Farm, revolves around this issue. At this point of the narrative, The animals appear to be totally submissive to and even grateful for the leadership ... to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel ...

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