... dual capability to blare constant propaganda and observe citizens, the telescreens also symbolize how totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization. The London that Winston Smith calls home is a battered, rundown city in which buildings are crumbling ... living in as if they were in an epoch of habitation, with a bunch of characteristics of an epoch of homelessness, despite being the castoff part of the civilization, while the regular citizens are inside of a forced epoch of habitation with several characteristics of...

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