What Is The Form Of Government In George Orwell's Novel 1984

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Author George Orwell created a totalitarian society where no one knows what's really going on behind closed doors in his novel, 1984. This society, which features the main character, Winston Smith was fabricated as to what Orwell believed modern society would be like in the year nineteen eighty four and on. Though the similarities may not match up to America’s current situation, North Korea’s dictatorship does. North Korea is currently lead by Kim Jong-un whose face is plastered on buildings much like that of Big Brother, the leader of Oceania. The totalitarian style government in 1984 has many similarities to North Korea’s present form of government. Citizens of North Korea and Oceania are both very similar in the way that they live, unaware

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