1. The Methods of Totalitarianism in George Orwell's 1984
... a society where "men [are] superfluous" (Arendt 457). The goal of a totalitarian state is "to fabricate something that does not exist, namely, a kind of human species resembling other animal species whose only 'freedom' would consist in 'preserving the species'" (Arendt 438). Orwell's work exemplifies Arendt's thesis, as according to critic Martin Kessler, "It [1984] is merely the ... under intense scrutiny. The doctrine of crimestop indicates the degree to which the definition of crime no longer encompasses action: "Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct,...
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