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Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984), by George Orwell, published in 1949, is a dystopian novel about the totalitarian regime of the Party, an oligarchical collectivist society where life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, public mind control, and the voiding of citizens' rights. In the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him into rebellion against Big Brother, which leads to his arrest, torture, and conversion. As literary political fiction, 1984 is a classic novel of the social science fiction sub-genre, thus, since its publication in 1949, the terms and concepts of Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Memory hole, et cetera, became contemporary vernacular, including the adjective Orwellian, denoting George Orwell's writings and totalitarianism as exposited in Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm (1945). From Wikipedia under the
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Q. I'm reading it right now and I'm confused on who or what they are? Asked by namso141 - Mon Nov 13 20:18:45 2006 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments A. Workers, laborers, the common people. From the proletariat, the Marxist/socialist referent for the new industrial working class of the 19th century. Also, curiously, the only people the regime in Orwell's novel can't control or truly affect. They are actually less unhappy than the party members. Answered by rick c - Mon Nov 13 20:21:43 2006 From Yahoo Answer Search: "1984 (novel)" |
