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  2. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.

  3. Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...

  4. Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced his creation of Oceania. What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein, a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. [1]

  5. Emmanuel Goldstein - Wikipedia

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    Emmanuel Goldstein (John Boswall) on a telescreen during a Two Minutes Hate programme in the film Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) Emmanuel Goldstein is a fictional character and the principal enemy of the state of Oceania in the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell. The political propaganda of The Party portrays Goldstein as the leader of The Brotherhood, a secret, counter ...

  6. Newspeak - Wikipedia

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    In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate.To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed to limit a person's ability for critical thinking.

  7. What George Orwell got right in '1984' - AOL

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    In Orwell's "1984," the Party that rules the nation of Oceania is in a constant state of war with surrounding nations. The same can be said about the world today, taking into consideration wars in ...

  8. 1984 - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 December 2024. This article is about the year 1984. For the novel, see Nineteen Eighty-Four. For other uses, see 1984 (disambiguation). "MCMLXXXIV" redirects here. For the album, see MCMLXXXIV (album). 1984 January February March April May June July August September October November December Clockwise ...

  9. Heretics of Dune - Wikipedia

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    Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in his Dune series of six novels.. Set 1,500 years after the events of God Emperor of Dune (1981), the novel finds humanity on the path set for them by the tyrant Leto II Atreides to guarantee their survival.