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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.
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 ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Winston Smith is a fictional character and the protagonist of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel also being born in 1945-46 according to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.The character was employed by Orwell as an everyman in the setting of the novel, a "central eye ...
One for the Road, considered Pinter's "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments", [1] was inspired, according to Antonia Fraser, [2] by reading on May 19, 1983, Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, a book about torture on Argentina's military dictatorship; later, in January 1984, he got to write it after an argument with two Turkish girls ...
The book is about "one of the most compelling paradoxes of history: the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests". [1] It details four major instances of government folly in human history: the Trojans' decision to move the Greek horse into their city, the failure of the Renaissance popes to address the factors that would lead to the Protestant Reformation in the early ...