The sexual content throughout the novel greatly contributed to its banning. ... Throughout the novel, Winston and Julia have sexual intercourse a number of times in different environments to ensure they do not get caught. There are many instances of this novels prohibition in schools, including: "Jackson County, Florida challenged the novel in 1981 claiming to be pro-communism and anti-Semitism and for having sexual references" (squidoo). Secondly, the graphic violence in the novel played a large role in its controversy. The graphic description of torture and public execution is seen...

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This essentially describes the society that is found in Airstrip One in Oceania in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. ... The novel follows this protagonist as he is determined to expose the lack of individuality in society. ... A second example of the significance of memories in this novel is that without memory, the Party is able to control history. ... As Orwell stated in this novel that "Those who control the present, control the past, thus controlling the future." ... Comparing the effects of the manipulation of the past is easily visible in the present state of society in this novel. ...

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Although Orwell's originally titled novel, "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", combined with the use of animals as characters in the novel, may appeal to children, the content of Animal Farm goes beyond any magical or make-believe story. ... The novel is replete with messages and lessons regarding blind conformity and the misuse of power, that are not to be found in typical fairy stories. The perfect world envisioned by Old Major the pig, where all animals are equal and man is no more, is corrupted from the very beginning of the novel. ... Napoleon abuses his power in this way many times th...

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In George Orwell's novel 1984, Orwell uses symbols to provide an easier way of understanding his genius ideas of what occurs in Oceania, the setting of the novel. ... Although George Orwell uses multiple symbols in his novel 1984 the three that develop plot and theme and therefore are most important are the Ministry buildings, the glass paperweight, and O"Brien's boot stomping on a human face. The structure of the Ministry buildings symbolize the strength of the hierchy government in Oceania as well as the levels of social status in the novel. ...

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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. ... While reading the novel, I feel sorry for Winston to live in a society where all the ugly and perverse about human nature has prevailed, and people are powerless to resist an in...

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However with the presence of O"Brien's book set purposefully in the narrative of the novel, both Winston and the reader are able to read it, another opinion could be that the voice of the narrator belongs to O"Brien. ... This allows him and god like significance in the novel and perhaps outs him forward as a suitable choice for the narrator. ... Written just after the end of the Second World War, Orwell seems to use "Nineteen Eighty-Four" as a reactionary novel. ... The novel is written entirely in what would be "Oldspeak" in Winston's world. ... In the end, the narrator is merely a ...

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Both novels exhibit a society where totalitarian regimes control every aspect of their people to maintain stability instead of happiness and humanity. Winston Smith (1984) and John (Brave New World), the protagonists of both novels, oppose to the way their societies are ruled and dehumanized because they use reason to critic their governments. ... Winston hates the Party passionately and wants to test the limits of its power by committing innumerable crimes throughout the novel, ranging from writing "Down with Big Brother- in his diary, to having an illegal love affair with Julia, to getting...

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George Orwell employs a variety of allegorical devices in his novel 'Animal Farm' including personification, naive narrative and irony to produce an allegory that voices his concerns over the outcome of the Russian revolution, and more broadly the dangers of unchecked power. ... This literary device in the novel was an intellectual way for Orwell to escape the social restrictions brought about by the public's support for Russia, yet at the same time express his concerns on the outcome of the Russian revolution to the public without having to pass through a filter. ... Orwell&#x...

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The novel shows through its characters, a society without values, without feelings, where the only thing that counts is to have fun and where the problems, if there are any, are resolved by taking "soma". ... If we take notice, we will see that the author describes a word similar to ours, but the surprising thing is that this  novel was written in 1932. ... Perhaps we could say that Huxley is another example of a visionary as were Jules Verne and George Orwell in his novel "1984".   This novel is very interesting, and is capable of engaging the reader within the story by the novelty of his ...

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While reading the novel I started to develop an analogy of fire and gasoline to describe the relationship between Julia and Winston. ... As I read further into the novel, I started to notice the paranoia of Winston taking over his mindset as well as Julia's reckless behavior taking over and thus leading to Winston's capture by the government. ... The whole purpose of Orwell's novel....

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Following the political upheaval and struggle for power after the second world war, George Orwell's novel 1984 cautions against the dangers of oppression and exemplifies the consequential nightmarish world of the near future. ... The novel 1984 epitomizes, if not exaggerates, the horrors of a totalitarian collectivism, where a government can claim that a contradiction, such as two and two makes five, is true, and the hive mind will believe it. ... Even Winston, who throughout the novel attempts to reject Ingsoc's brainwashing, is swept away with the raw emotional flood of the Two Min...

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In his novel "1984", George Orwell creates a society where all decency, integrity, individuality, and consciousness has been destroyed and abolished from existence in order to obtain a "so-called" utopia. ... Orwell's intention for writing this novel is not to show the reader how the current society can become, but to show that it is very much possible for humans to become dehumanized by these torturous means. ... Oppression in the novel, resulting from two main themes of poverty and politics, is made quite evident from the very first chapter of "1984". ...

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George Orwell's novel, "1984," elucidates or explains a totalitarian civilization in Oceania where an individual, Winston Smith, ventures to express his thoughts in a diary and pursues a relationship with Julia, which is prohibited by the Party's principles. ... First, Goldstein's novel reads the transformation of people during the war. ... After reading the novel, people should understand that having disagreements will lead to worsening situation and will bring no goodness to the world affecting the people and society around it....

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Contrary to modern day America, in the novel "1984," by George Orwell, the government seems to have mastered keeping all of the citizens of Oceania fooled almost constantly. ... Even though Winston worked in the Ministry of Truth fabricating the past to fit Big Brothers lies, at the end of the novel when Oceania is suddenly at war with a new enemy, he doesn't question it. ... George Orwell's cautionary novel, "1984," tells of a totalitarian state where the government controls every single aspect of its inhabitants lives through unorthodox methods such as torture and brainwashing. ...

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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." ... There was never a time of peace in the novel. ... However as long as there are people like Winston Smith in the novel, alive today to keep helping others remember that the government is not all-powerful and people do not always have to follow the norm, today's society will hopefully never see conditions as harsh as those in 1984. ...

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The novel "1984" depicts a dystopian society, mainly that of Oceania, where the government has complete control and the individual holds virtually no power. 1984 is written by George Orwell and examines just how little power the individual has as well as what the totalitarian overhaul of a society can do. The novel's main focus is to provide a view into what the consequences are when the government abuses its power and makes no secret of it. ... The author writes this novel through the protagonist Winston Smith therefore making Winston's opinions of great importance and giving Winsto...

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Newspeak is a name given to the forecoming language of the totalitarian society portrayed in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. ... Indeed, in the novel, there is no war going on, but a false war is created existing only in the mind, by the Party in accordance of the first slogan. ...

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Similarly, this juxtaposition can also be seen in the novel 1984 by Orwell. ... In the novel the outer party members are fed expired food and synthetic Gin; are mandated to listen to the Tele-screen propaganda; and every breath they took they were reminded of the war between Oceania & Eurasia. ...

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The societies in these novels use conditioning, through propaganda and drugs, to create a population that respects and believes in the government fully. ... In both novels, the totalitarian governments condition their citizens to make sure they act to their high standards. ...

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Courtship therefore takes on a profound, if often unspoken, importance in the novel. ... The difference between the two novels in this instance, then, is that society dictates what people can and can't do and how happy they can be in "Pride and Prejudice" – conventions that just haven't changed. ... Elizabeth does not conform to the way society wants her to, and perhaps as a result finds more happiness than anyone in the novel by marrying Darcy. ...

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When reading George Orwell's 1984, one realizes that many of the aforementioned characteristics are present in the novel and therefore the society and government is totalitarian. ... It is obvious while reading 1984 to see that the government in the novel shares characteristics which are common among totalitarian regimes. ...

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Brave New World and 1984 are two novels that both take place in a totalitarian world; however the two worlds are very different. ... Orwell's novel portrays sex as not beneficial to the government and thus it is illegal, unless it occurs between a married couple (which the government arranges) in order to have children, in that case they encourage it because they need more citizens. ...

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Throughout the novel, Winston gives up many important values to save his life. ... Towards the end of the novel, Winston's physical appearance begins to ˜[rot] away, " and he then becomes "aware of his ugliness, his gracelessness, a bundle of bones in filthy underclothes sitting weeping in the harsh white light " as O'Brien defines his humanity (Orwell 243). ...

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Throughout the novel, he clarifies and alters the meanings of these paradoxes as the plot advances. ... In his haunting novel, Orwell warns of the many troubles, such as mind control, which can result from a totalitarian society, and it makes one wonder: what if this were to happen to us?...

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The fiction of Newspeak introduced in the novel 1984, by George Orwell orchestrates a variety of tones to indicate that when the general atmosphere suffers, the language must suffer equally. ... Orwell softens the tones of words in the novel, and adds hints of irony throughout the names of the four ministries. ...

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