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Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984 ) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell.

Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984 ) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell. Dystopian novel Published in 1949, written in 1948 “Orwellian” State enforces “perfect conformity”: Indoctrination Fear Lies Ruthless punishment. Big Brother Thought police Telescreens

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984 ) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell.

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  1. Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) is a darkly satirical political novel by George Orwell. • Dystopian novel • Published in 1949, written in 1948 • “Orwellian” • State enforces “perfect conformity”: • Indoctrination • Fear • Lies • Ruthless punishment

  2. Big Brother • Thought police • Telescreens • Newspeak • Room 101

  3. WHY 1984?

  4. The Ministries of Oceania Oceania's four ministries are housed in huge pyramidal structures displaying the three slogans of the party on their sides. The Ministry of Peace= Minipax The Ministry of Plenty=Miniplenty The Ministry of Truth=Minitrue . The Ministry of Love=Miniluv .

  5. The Ministry of Truth = Ministry of Lies would also be a parody of the Roosevelt’s 1st freedom =freedom of speech The Ministry of Love =torture Roosevelt’s 2nd freedom= religion Ministry of Plenty=starvation Roosevelt’s 3rd freedom= freedom from want The Ministry of Peace = war Roosevelt’s 4th freedom="freedom from fear.“ Reality said otherwise and so did Orwell in describing the "Ministry of Peace.

  6. Parody of the 1941 "Four Freedoms“ The structure of the government resembled a parody in reverse of the famous 1941 USA State of the Union speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In that speech before the assembled Congress, the president outlined Four Freedoms:

  7. BIG BROTHER (BB): the mysterious head of government omniscient omnipotent beloved ?

  8. WAR IS PEACE • FREEDOM IS SLAVERY • IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

  9. The world is controlled by three functionally similar authoritarian super states engaged in perpetual war with each other:

  10. Political Geography in the world of 1984

  11. Newspeak “ the official language" of Oceania • vocabulary decreases every year • no purpose in maintaining a complex language • a language dedicated to the "destruction of words"

  12. Technology

  13. Along with Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, the world of 1984 is one of the first and most cited characterizations of a realistic dystopia to have appeared in English literature.

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