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*often published as ‘1984’*
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(‘dystopian novel’)
(written by english author ‘george orwell’)
(published in ‘1949’)
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(the novel is set in ‘airstrip one’ (formerly known as ‘great britain’), a province of the super-state ‘oceania’ in a world of…)
‘perpetual war’
‘omni-present government surveillance’
‘public manipulation’
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(the ‘super-state’ is dictated by a ‘political regime’ euphemistically named ‘english socialism’ (or ‘ingsoc’ in the government’s invented language ‘newspeak’))
(the ‘super-state’ is under the control of a ‘privileged elite’ of the ‘inner party’ that persecutes ‘individualism’ + ‘independent thinking’ as ‘thought-crime’)
(the tyranny is ostensibly overseen by ‘big brother’, the ‘party leader’ who enjoys an intense ‘cult of personality’, but who may not even exist)
(the party ‘seeks power entirely for its own sake‘)
(“it is not interested in ‘the good of others’…’it’ is interested solely in ‘power'”)
(the protagonist of the novel – ‘winston smith’ – is a member of the ‘outer party’, who works for the ‘ministry of truth’ (or ‘minitrue’ in ‘newspeak’), which is responsible for ‘propaganda’ + ‘historical revisionism’)
(his job is to re-write past ‘newspaper articles’, so that the ‘historical record’ always supports the ‘party line’)
(the instructions that the workers receive specify the corrections as ‘fixing mis-quotations’ and never as what they really are)
(that is, ‘forgeries’ + ‘falsifications’)
(a large part of the ‘ministry’ also actively destroys all documents that have been ‘edited’ + do not contain the ‘re-visions’)
(in this way, no ‘proof’ exists that the ‘government’ is ‘lying’)
(‘smith’ is a ‘diligent’ + ‘skillful’ worker but secretly hates the ‘party’ + dreams of ‘rebellion’ against ‘big brother’)
(the heroine of the novel – ‘julia’ – is based on orwell’s 2nd wife ‘sonia orwell’)
(as ‘literary political fiction’ + ‘dystopian science-fiction’, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a ‘classic novel’ in (‘content’ / ‘plot’ / ‘style’))
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(many of its ‘terms’ + ‘concepts’, such as…)
‘big brother’
‘double-think‘
‘thought-crime‘
‘newspeak‘
‘room 101’
‘tele-screen‘
2 + 2 = 5
‘memory hole‘
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(…have entered into ‘common use’ since its publication in ‘1949’)
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(‘nineteen eighty-four’ popularized the adjective orwellian, which describes…)
‘official deception’
‘secret surveillance’
*’manipulation’ of ‘recorded history’ by a ‘totalitarian’ or ‘authoritarian’ state*
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(in ‘2005’, the novel was chosen by time magazine as 1 of the ‘100 best english-language novels’ from ‘1923’ to ‘2005’)
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(it was awarded a place on both lists of ‘modern library 100 best novels’…)
#13
(‘editor’s list’)
(aka ‘critical assessment’ / ‘critical acclaim’ / ‘critiques’)
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#6
(‘reader’s list’)
*aka ‘commercial appeal’ / ‘commercial success’*
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(in ‘2003’, the novel was listed at #8 on the BBC survey ‘the big read’)
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