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1984, Science-Fiction or Reality
Title: 1984, Science-Fiction or Reality
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1042 | Pages: 4.4 (approximately 235 words/page)
1984, Science-Fiction or Reality
1984, Science-Fiction or Reality
“On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran”(Orwell 3). The novel 1984 follows Winston Smith, a worker at the Ministry of Truth, who lives in a world where the government watches every move you make and attempts to control all your thoughts. Winston’s job …showed first 85 words of 1042 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1042 total…Orwell 260). As technology advances, it becomes easier and easier to control the thoughts and actions of others and, therefore, the present. If George Orwell was correct, then he who controls the present controls the past and he who controls the past controls the future. We must never let that much power fall into the hands of a single man or group. We must always be able to do what we want to do and think independently and we should always be free to know that 2+2=4.
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