Following the political upheaval and struggle for power after the second world war, George Orwell's novel 1984 cautions against the dangers of oppression and exemplifies the consequential nightmarish world of the near future. ... mechanisms, eliminating free thought through the restrictive language, constant propaganda, degradation of human values, enforced social hierarchy, and virtual complete control of reality. The novel 1984 epitomizes, if not exaggerates, the horrors of a totalitarian collectivism, where a government can claim that a contradiction, such as two and two makes five, ... i...

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George Orwell - 1984 The authorities might regard keeping a diary and dangerous because it lessens the control and influence they have over that certain individual. By keeping a diary of recorded events one cannot be ... ...

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