... worth briefly considering the author himself, George Orwell. An anarchist in the 1920s, by the 1930s Orwell considered himself a socialist and in late 1936 he travelled to Spain to fight for the Republicans against Franco's Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War. Here he was forced to ... belief in democratic socialism, three themes that feature heavily within Nineteen Eighty-Four. This essay is trying to carry out a predominantly Marxist reading of the book, since there are several points in which it is worth making comparisons. Given the socio-political and economical nature of ... Inner...

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• Grade Level: Graduate

... , who decides now to avoid direct interaction with them as much as possible. With that being said, I intend to devote the first two parts of my essay to applying a Marxist reading to this passage using the theories of Michele Foucault and of Louis Althusser; while in the last part, I will attempt to draw a parallel between the actual sociopolitical situation in the ... attitudes, despite Napoleon's absence from public scenes, indicates their conforming to the image of prisoners in Foucault's panopticon. The Panopticon was a design for a prison produced by Jeremy Bentham in the late eight...

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... the war. However, Julia is less concerned with overthrowing the government than she is having fun and not getting caught. She falls asleep when Winston is reading the Black Book (pg 179), something extremely important to him but minute to her. Julia and Winston share a common bond in their hatred for the ... is a member of the Inner-Party with a mysterious job, actually a spy for the Thought Police, although this is not discovered by Winston until it is too late (pg 197). O'Brien can be quite cruel (pg 202,217,224), and it is his duty to brainwash and torture Winston at the Ministry of Lo...

• Word Count: 2129
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• Grade Level: High School