... written there were no existent computers nor were there any political leaders from which to extract the idea of Big Brother. So not only did George Orwell have to have a broad imagination, but his readers also had to stretch their state of mind outside of their everyday experiences in order ... understand what is being said in the book. Although Orwell had personally witnessed the totalitarian governments or Russia and Spain, neither of them had gone to such lengths of sustain their power as did Oceania in his story. There are concepts in the book that must be looked upon with ... Newsp...

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... were watching 1984 approach and being thankful for the fact that in their eyes our society was nothing like that described in Orwell's 1984, that they missed some of the ideas from Huxley's Brave New World. Huxley's Brave New World is more relevant today than Orwell's 1984. According to Postman, a contemporary social critic, " ... oppressed. Our lives seem to revolve around our social lives and lack in meaning. People are willingly spending many hours a week just sitting in front of the television. Although Huxley's ideas have not come true to such extreme measures as they did in his boo...

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... in 1984 by George Orwell, A story about a totalitarian dictatorship where the government controls everything in the country, bending history and the memories of all it's people. The author describes the world of 1984 through the eyes of a 39 year old man who seeks the truth about history and what really happened in the world. He finds evidence in what he does everyday, in his job ... girlfriend. His name was Winston Smith, an outer party member who's job was to rewrite history as the party saw fit. This job hinted at Winston everyday that there was something more to life, then working e...

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... the control its people and how every society has flaws and how they can be changed, and the themes that are displayed in both novels are technology, control of information and history, and the dangers of totalitarianism, but at the same time in 1984 there is language as mind control, and in Fahrenheit 451 there is knowledge versus ignorance. In both novels, a very ... as hidden microphones, the Party is able to watch its members almost all of the time. Also, they also have machines to inflict on those who defy the Party and its beliefs. Not to mention the amount of computers and machine...

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... or figure such as Big Brother. In Oceania even the most adamant about rebellion eventually fall under Big Brothers rule and brainwash. The conditionings of blind loyalty to The Party starts from the day Oceania citizens are born. They are constantly being force fed propaganda and lies to mold them ... bombarded with propaganda, almost like in 1984. In America we are almost always being watched or monitored. The number of surveillance cameras is rising and our phone calls, internet history and even where we go are monitored by technology. Another way the government could use technology to...

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... the Soviet Union. Orwell's goal was to expose the falsehoods of the Soviet Union as the model of a socialist state. He also wanted to reveal the dangers of totalitarianism, the deterioration of objective truth, and the well thought-out manipulation of Oceania's common peoples through propaganda. The Ministry of Truth is where history and facts both significant and insignificant are rewritten to reflect the ... II. The many different ministries are paradox to the "real" definitions of the words. The Ministry of Truth is a complete contradiction of itself. A Ministry of Truth should not c...

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