written in the period just after W.W.II. It details the life of one man, Winston Smith, and his struggles with an undoubtedly

fascist government. The book is set approximately in the year 1984, in which Winston's society is ruled by a governing force

known as "The Party". At the head of this government is a fictional figure known as Big Brother, to whom all citizens must love

and respect. In this society, privacy and freedom do not exist. People are constantly monitored by telescreens, and subjected

to a constant barrage of propaganda. Any devious thought or action is dealt with by cruel and deadly punishment. Winston is a

worker in one of the government agencies. His job: to rewrite the past so that The Party, specifically Big Brother, appears to

be omnipotent. From as long as he can remember, he has despised The Party and what it stood for, although he doesn't reveal

his true feelings to anyone around him. When Winston begins a torrid love affair with one of the young women in his agency

named Julia, he finds someone else who shares in his beliefs. The two have several meetings throughout the book, in which they

discuss their hatred for the government. They join a secret alliance ca

by re-writing history as time progresses. By doing this, people can look back on the past and will only see whatever the

people. Although there are some flaws in human nature, we have always been able to keep from digging a grave too deep to

and reading slogans such as "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU" and "War is Peace...Freedom is Slavery...Ignorance is

arrested by the thought police, a faction of the government which deals with those who do not agree and abide by the ways of

everyone's homes, it was very easy to broadcast the views and beliefs of The Party. Also, as this was the only form of

Strength." Hitler was a big fan of propaganda and used it a great deal. Also, The Party controlled all written media, and

only was in which you can do this is to withhold information and blatantly lie to them. One way that this is done in the novel is

which deviated from "normal" paths of thought could result in my death. Many of the greatest changes in society have been

climb out of. It is scary to think how close the world could have come to having a society like the one in Nineteen Eighty Four,

freedom was led by a Jewish man. This also relates to W.W.II, as the Jews were the principle group of people persecuted by

and know that we as humans have to gain a better understanding of one another. I enjoyed reading this book because not only

those used by Hitler or any controlling government for that matter. One of these ways is by propaganda. With telescreens in

accomplishes its stronghold on the people. The world as Winston knows it comes crashing down when he and Julia are

version of Hitler and the totalitarian movements in the earlier part of the twentieth century, it was ironic that the crusade for

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