1984


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** Book ** **Title**: 1984 ** Author ** : George Orwell




 * "Sanity is not statistical." **
 * "He who controls the past, controls the future." **

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a 1949 [|dystopian novel] by [|George Orwell] about an [|oligarchic], [|collectivist] society. Life in the [|Oceanian] province of [|Airstrip One] is a world of [|perpetual war], pervasive government [|surveillance] , and incessant public [|mind control]. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the [|Ministry of Truth] (Minitrue, in [|Newspeak] ), 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 meagre existence disillusions him to the point of seeking [|rebellion] against [|Big Brother], eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and reconversion.

As literary [|political fiction], Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic novel of the [|social science fiction] subgenre. Since its publication in 1949, many of its terms and concepts, such as [|Big Brother], [|doublethink] , [|thoughtcrime] , [|Newspeak] , and [|Memory hole] , have become contemporary [|vernacular]. In addition, the novel popularized the adjective [|Orwellian], which refers to lies, surveillance, or manipulation of the past in the service of a totalitarian agenda.

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