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George Orwell’s 1984 is an oppressive world that drains the citizens that live under the INGSOC regime. The citizens of Oceania become repurposed by the Inner Party into tools that exist to perpetuate the class disparity between the Inner Party and the Proles. To summarize, sexuality’s importance to the narrative of 1984 concentrates on the dynamic thematic representations throughout the novel. This essay will highlight several examples of sexuality and sexual expression within 1984 and how…

Today, in the 21st century, countries such as North Korea and Cuba still operate under a totalitarian government, a single-party dictatorship that controls all aspects of public and private life. It manages the political, social, cultural, and economic aspects of life, along with any media and technology. George Orwell’s 1984 is a dystopian novel set in Oceania about how the protagonist, Winston Smith, loses his identity under the oppressive totalitarian regime of “Big Brother”. As a government…

The vast size of the human population today in our modern time bring with it an almost arbitrary phenomenon, that most people do not seem to understand and accept. It is of course the phenomena that allows some people to live in huge mansions with a fifty meter pool in the backyard, and there are human beings who are forced to dwell in the many tunnels and sewers under major cities and who have to beg for their food. It is an extreme example of course, but is not farfetched at all. It is a…

In all literary works the setting can add many layers to the story at hand and can create conflict that would not have otherwise been there in another environment. Whether it be culture, the way things are controlled, or weather, setting has a big part in whatever form of story they are featured in. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet the setting is the country of Denmark which is run by a monarchy in turmoil after the loss of its leader. Alternatively, the book 1984 written by George Orwell is set in the…

Interplay between Hegelian Dialectic and Marx’s Dialectical Materialism G.W.F. Hegel proposed that “dialectic” concerned itself with the process which went into knowing the “whole” of anything. Hegel equated “whole” with “totality”. According to him, only the whole is true. The whole is composed of moments that are partial wholes. The relationship that existed between these partial wholes is of prime importance. The whole contains within itself all the moments that it has overcome. Basically,…