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In 1984, by George Orwell, the reader sees a primary theme of political allegory and satire. Orwell is presenting the world of 1984 as a satiric statement of what might come to pass if the world did not become aware of the terrible problems facing it, not in 1984, but here and now. Orwell wrote the novel not as a prediction, but as a warning. He believed that in many ways society was regressing back in the direction of barbarism, and that in the fight against fascism and other totalitarian and terroristic systems of government, Western Civilization could fall under fascist rule.
1984 is the kind of book in which a writer finally explores the limits of his obsessions and the darkest aspects of themes he has been concerned with for years. Animal Farm, which is considered to be Orwell’s masterpiece, and 1984 are concerned with political evil and the misuse of language. Animal Farm is a fable. Orwell rewrote it with human beings as the personae in 1984. The two books express his unique assumption that evil is primarily political. The two best-known works of Orwell, the beast fable and the anti-Utopian fiction seem to have more universal satirical meanings. Both books deal with the corruption of an originally revolutionary ide
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None of these ministries has anything to do with the meanings of these words. Mutually assured destruction is intended as a comforting phrase. After Lenin's death Trotsky lost all his power to Stalin and was expelled from the communist party. Because the
states are at war, they are locked in perpetual deadlock. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us; so long as he resists us we never destroy him. The Ministry of Truth is actually the maker of lies ...