... Ingsoc, is able to achieve these ends with a complex utilization of manipulation 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, is true, and the hive mind will believe it. The concept of language as a confining tool is an exceptionally important message of the book, and thi...

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... a physical dependence, rather than mental, for example when a frequent user of soma, runs out they become sick. This fate is shown when Lenina is visiting the Savage Reservation and run out of soma she becomes ill. This dependence and inability to function metal and physical with out soma allows the government to control the population completely and allow them to love their ... fate. This regiment of soma doesn't deliver anything inspirational or life enriching. It doesn't enhance any emotional epiphanies, intellectual breakthroughs or life defying insights. It doesn't promote physical ...

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