... posters and put all over the place with the saying, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." This was used to let the people know that no matter where they go the could not escape the watching eyes of the controling government. The government itself was very mysterious and had several parts that were very suspicious to the main character, Winston, who worked in one part of ... everyday called, "The Two Minutes Hate." This event happens everyday at a specified time in which people assembled in front of a large telescreen where they were show pictures of terrible events in their history and then th...

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While so many 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 ... of superficial and unmeaningful elements. The lives of children do not consist of a desire to learn but a desire to be "cool". The people of today pay money to go to watch movies based on superficial ideas and lacking in a solid theme. We have on our own, in a way, filled our lives with the equivalents of the ... necessarily ever been something we hated b...

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... . Their every move can be monitored wherever they are or wherever they go. "On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU ... and at what time they are "allowed" to do it. "It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of cubicles and grouping them in the center of the hall, opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes of Hat...

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