... As previously stated, the people blindly accept the "facts," whether true or not. Their minds are thus manipulated to not question. Sadly enough, peoples" minds become brainwashed. Orwell cites an instance in 1984 where Winston is "cured" through pain conditioning. O"Brien brainwashes Winston into thinking four fingers is actually five or six or any number he wants. O"Brien's final goal is ... to get Winston allied to Big Brother (Orwell 198-236). The manipulation of media detriments society. It brainwashes, confuses, and lies to the people. In conclusion, mass media ... , 2001. 6. Lic...

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... maxim for almost every utopian/dystopian writer that followed. Nevertheless, dystopian stories take invariably take place in the future. The year 1984 may have past, but George Orwell's story described a plausible future scenario when it was published for the first time in 1949 and it may still come ... dystopian tales often become studies in survival. In Neuromancer (William Gibson, 1984) it is simply a question of staying alive; in Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1936) it is a question of staying human. In Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell, 1949) it becomes a matter of preserving ind...

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... controlled, then it seems fair that our dystopia is controlled by some other beings. Like advanced apes (Planet of the Apes), upper class humans (George Orwell's 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World) or maybe artificially intelligent robots (The Matrix and Terminator Series). Throw in the fact that these advanced being have ... the destruction in the world, have we always envisioned us destroying ourselves? Which leaves us with the next thought. Is it a warning? The book, 1984, was written in 1948. Just after the terrors of world war two, and as the communist states where rising in pow...

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