Meaning of Nineteen Eighty-Four | Babel Free

Definitions

A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance.

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Examples

“I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.”

“The term 'nuclear family' may be found dislikable, but it is useful in avoiding the suggestion that Plato wants to abolish the family in favour of impersonal institutions of a Nineteen Eighty-Four type.”

“Dick's novel condemns this method, because she felt it destroyed creative work and encouraged a Nineteen Eighty-Four atmosphere of fear, and the novel ends with the triumph of hope and a faith in human love.”

“Thus arises again the specter of a Nineteen Eighty-Four, of a brave new world of robots, of a waste land that is ever more sterile, of a West that is sick from lack of mysticism.”

“Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human.”

“Barnes finds an acceleration of the Orwellian trend in American life, and he cites C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite as providing "the best description of the progress made toward a Nineteen Eighty-Four social order in the United States.”

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