1984's main character is Winston Smith, a man who doubts the ethics of the over powering tyrannical government that rules Oceania, one of three superstates in the world of 1984. ... Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia are the three battling superstates. ... Orwell also brings terror into the story when he writes about what is really behind Big Brother; Oceania's government sends a representative into the plot. A government, very similar to many of the governments in our present society, is at the head of Oceania, and that is where the unmistakable reality of 1984 becomes obvious. ... Doub...

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The society depicted in "1984" can be compared to a society that is run by machines. ... Oppressing people is the Party's attempt to control the society and to prevent them from rebelling and rising in power over the current government. The Party uses propaganda and brainwashing in attempts to dehumanize the people in Oceania. ... Along side brainwashing, the Party used cruelty and torture to assist with wiping out the human mind of all those living in Oceania. ... In the society of Oceania exhibited in "1984", man has become seen as an instrument or machine rather than as a human bei...

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This is the question posed through out 1984, and it demonstrates that power creates reality and truth by controlling mans minds, the only existing place of reality. ... The government takes advantage of the new mood of hopelessness displayed, and takes hold of the consciousness of the people. 1984 takes place in a dictorial society, in which power creates reality and truth. ... The government created an endless present with a "flawless" falsified past. ... The people of Oceania are at fault for their own allowance of domination. ... The reeducation in Winston and the rest of populatio...

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These are a few of the reactions that crossed my mind as I read this , "1984" written by Orwell. ... It was even conceivable that they watched all the time" There is no doubt that through both "Big Brother is Watching ", what do you feel when you read these Newspeak and Thought Police, the system of government in Oceania has adequately prevented the people from thinking against it. ... For example, Syme, a middle-class worker in Oceania reveals the concept of this surveillance is placed on the people, they learn to comply with their society and eventually begin to value it automatically. In ...

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