These are the challenges that Winston faces in George Orwell's classic novel, "Animal Farm." Orwell's remarkable international reputation is due to his two novels Animal Farm and 1984. ... Winston hates Julia he hates her because she is beautiful and smart and he can't have her but that all changes when she slips him a note that reads "I love you ". Winston was overjoyed when he read the note, this just changed his entire life. ... As the novel progresses, however, we also come to see that she represents Winston's intense sense of guilt. ...

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George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four describes a futuristic alternate reality where a totalitarian government tyrannises the population through constant surveillance, public mind control, propaganda and on-going overseas war. ... This overarching theme of the downtrodden masses versus the empowered elite minority is constant throughout the narrative, thus leaving the novel openly suitable for analysis from the Marxist perspective of literary theory. There are several other key themes, tropes and connotations throughout the novel which can also be connected strongly to...

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Authors, such as George Orwell and Aldous Huxley began to publish novels that illustrated this developing dystopia. ... Throughout both novels, the authors illustrate a seemingly distorted religion in the societies. ... Winston Smith, the misfit in the novel, explains his job of altering history. ... In order for the governments in the two novels to acquire full control over the people, all emotional attachments must be destructed. ... Fanny, Lenina's friend, notes, "And you know how strongly the D.H.C. objects to anything intense or long-drawn- (Huxley 41). ...

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Lechman's class notes 2014-2015). ... A second example of violence in the novel is The Two Minutes of Hate. ... A third example of violence in the novel is Mr. and Mrs. ... In the novel, the government censors information from its population. ... An example of intimidation in the novel is the Thought Police. ...

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In the novel, Winston is jailed by the Ministry of Love because of his rebellious thoughts. ... Rejali notes that "the three models of torture correspond roughly to the two main purposes of government torture: to intimidate, and to coerce false information.... Darius Rejali also notes that "Modern torturers favor pain that intimidate the prisoner alone. ...

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In the same vein, in his essay "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses," (Notes Towards an Investigation, 1972) the French philosopher Louis Althusser uses a Marxist perspective to study the relationship, in the modern context, between the governed and the governor. ... These two poems, in fact, constitute the driving forces behind the two major patterns of attitudes of the animals in the novel, namely revolution and submissiveness. ...

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Winston Smith is the main character in the novel and he lives in Oceania formerly London. ... While walking in the hallway at work Winston receives a note from a beautiful woman that reads, I love you. ...

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