A totalitarian society in George Orwell's novel 1984 touches many disturbing aspects on the denial of a person's rights. People's lives, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are all controlled by the Inner Party, which governs the people of a province called Oceania in order to keep them from rebelling. 1984 is a compelling novel; for it represents an important guide to life for all human beings. ... I believe that Orwell's purpose for writing 1984 was to express his feelings of how the governments would come to control everything and anything it wished to do. ... At t...

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