Orwell lived in a time where the government was taking a lot of people's freedoms. ... Similar In 1984 Oceania is always at war with other countries and battling for power in the book he Oceania is at war with 2 countries constantly, Eastasia and Eurasia. ... At the time Orwell was growing up there was a lot of rationing going on due to the expenses the country took on during world war 1. ... I see many parallels where Orwell is writing about his childhood but also predicting how he sees the world getting worse in the future if it continued in the same direction. ...

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By forcing and ruling the people of the world with censorship and brainwashing, we have built ourselves up to the image of "Big Brother" (George Orwell, 1984), which is a thought controlling power ruled by a Dictatorship and covered up by a equality facade through censorship. ... The policy was formed around George F. ... George Orwell's novel 1984 takes the reader through a journey of a worker named Winston Smith. ...

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Modern day society turned into the society of 1984 George Orwell was a big contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. When Orwell was once speaking of his novel 1984 he made the following statement, " I do not believe that the kind of society I describe necessarily will arrive, but I believe that something resembling it could arrive." Orwell did not live to see this theory of his come true, however over the years more and more events happen to prove him correct. ... As alluded to in 1984, such a place as Oceania would not be possible without the use technolog...

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According to the book "1984" written by George Orwell and the short article "Control the Language, Control the Masses", the effect of the use of language has rationalized the people's thoughts of rebellion against each other and limits their choices of being self-independent. ... Winston in "1984" had observed the ironic language that been used by Newspeaker, which is called doublethink, to gain power from the people: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (17) One of the famous dictatorships in the history of World War II that has threatened...

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Rivalry of Culture Fear; the strife between the capitalist and communist governments resulted in this. The belief that freedom and the American way of life and capitalism would cease to exist and die under a communist takeover. There were specific and deliberate decisions that the U.S. made d...

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