Swingewood And Laurenson's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Based on the results the political power of Nineteen eighty-four is analyzed by showing the aspect of political power and the portrayed political power delivered by the main characters in the novel. The discussion is to show how the political powers identified and present the phenomena between aspects of political power and ideology behind political powers that create the social problems in nineteenth century society which implemented in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Discussion contains the data relation to Swingewood and Laurenson by using the sociological approach about social situation on the writer based on the sociological approach with focus social

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