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- Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes". The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good. The protagonist
- The novel starts with Winston Smith starting to write a diary. He says it is his first crime, a thought crime, punishable by the Thought Police. Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. He has to rewrite history there, in spite of the ministry's name, he invents lies and updates all the newspapers and sources that reference the original fact he tries to hide. The data he overwrites is thrown into a memory hole, where it is burned to ashes. There are four Ministries:
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| - This plot section is in need of expanding, you can help. George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.
- The novel starts with Winston Smith starting to write a diary. He says it is his first crime, a thought crime, punishable by the Thought Police. Smith works in the Ministry of Truth. He has to rewrite history there, in spite of the ministry's name, he invents lies and updates all the newspapers and sources that reference the original fact he tries to hide. The data he overwrites is thrown into a memory hole, where it is burned to ashes. There are four Ministries:
* Ministry of Love: issues torture to traitors and criminals (Miniluv in Newspeak)
* Ministry of Truth: changes the truth to favor the Party's lies. Responsible for news and entertainment. (Minitrue in Newspeak)
* Ministry of Plenty: responsible for the rationing of goods. (Miniplenty in Newspeak)
* Ministry of Peace: handles perpetual war against Eurasia or Eastasia (Minipax in Newspeak) There is an ever-present device: The telescreen. Orwell thought that in the far future the television would transmit in two ways. The telescreen transmits video, as well as also being a camera to spy on people. At the beginning of the book a woman who is leading some exercises at the telescreen tells Winston to make a better effort in his exercises. They do not know when they are watched, it is a panoptic telescreen. The Party is headed by Big Brother. There are pictures of him everywhere, and it is also the default image of the telescreen when it is not transmitting television. He is facing front and there is a slogan written on his pictures: "Big Brother is watching you". The reason for the message is to remind people of not to commit any crimes, not even a crime thought. The public enemy of the party is Goldstein. He is thought to command forces of revolution. He is shown shouting at the camera during the "Two Minutes of Hate". This is a daily activity in which he speaks and all the people get mad at him, shouting at the screen. The language is also being changed. A friend of Winston is working on this and he shows Winston a dictionary of the new language: Newspeak. They delete words and concepts for no one to ever think about them. They delete concepts about liberty, revolution and the like. Winston lives in England, a sector of Oceania. They are always at war against Eurasia or Eastasia. When they are fighting Eurasia, Eastasia is the enemy and vice versa. The strange thing about the war is that when they switch the enemy, they do it forever, that is, they say Oceania has always been at war with the new enemy, which is entirely false. Winston hates a woman called Julia. She works in Pornosec and he think she is asexual, like most women at that time, including his past wife. But she is in love with him. She gives him a paper confessing her love and they actually engage in a love relationship. They use a room rented by a friend of Winston to be together. Winston meets O'Brien, a man of the Inner Party. O'Brien invites him to his home and give a book written by Goldstein himself. Winston and Julia start to read the book, which is totally against the party. It speaks about the purpose of the everlasting war and the characteristics of the system implanted by the Party. But Winston does not know the danger that is coming to his life and Julia's.
- Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by George Orwell published in 1949. The novel is set in Airstrip One (formerly known as Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political system euphemistically named English Socialism (or, in the government's invented language, Newspeak, called Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent thinking as "thoughtcrimes". The tyranny is epitomised by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their oppressive rule in the name of a supposed greater good. The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (or Minitrue), which is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports the current party line. Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother. As literary political fiction and dystopian science-fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel in content, plot, and style. Many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink,thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, Telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, and memory hole, have entered everyday use since its publication in 1949. Moreover, Nineteen Eighty-Four popularised the adjective Orwellian, which describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. In 2005, the novel was chosen by TIMEmagazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was awarded a place on both lists of Modern Library 100 Best Novels, reaching number 13 on the editor's list, and 6 on the reader's list. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 8 on the BBC's survey The Big Read.
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