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1984 Warnings
Summary: Essay describes the warnings given by George Orwell in his novel "1984."
In George Orwell's novel, 1984, there were many warnings about the future. ."..the warning is that unless the course of history changes, men all over the world will lose their most human qualities, will become soulless automatons, and will not even be aware of it." (pg 257) The Party of Oceania was a totalitarian society and controlled all aspects of life, even monitoring the people with telescreens.
The people of Oceania didn't think for themselves, they did whatever the Party told them to do, believed what the Party told them to believe in. The Party changed the past, controlled the present and planned the future for the people. George Orwell's 1984 warns about the future about these subjects: newspeak, continuous arms production, nature of truth, and double thinking.
"Newspeak was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc or English Socialism." (pg 246) Newspeak...
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