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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George
Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian and satirical novel set in Oceania,
where society is tyrannised by the Party and its totalitarian ideology The
Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, omnipresent
government surveillance, and public mind control, dictated by a political
system euphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a
privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent
thinking as thoughtcrimes.Their tyranny is headed by Big Brother, the
quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who
may not even exist. Big Brother and the Party justify their rule in the name of
a supposed greater good.The protagonist of the novel, Winston Smith, is a
member of the Outer Party who works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), which
is responsible for propaganda and historical revisionism. His job is to
re-write past newspaper articles so that the historical record always supports
the current party line.Smith is a diligent and skillful worker, but he secretly
hates the Party and dreams of rebellion against Big Brother.
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