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Nineteen Eighty Four : A Warning For The Future

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Rob Trapp
Mr. Garland
Novel Seminar
14 October 2015
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Warning For The Future Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in the late 40’s. At the time when Orwell started writing Nineteen Eighty-Four, WWII was just coming to an end. The late 40’s was also the start of the Cold War. The Cold war brought along much fear of communist governments, such as the Soviet Union, becoming a world power. Orwell was one of the people who feared a dictatorship coming to power. He wanted to warn the population of what could happen if a totalitarian government became a world power. In order to do such a thing, Orwell decided to write a book. The book he wrote was Nineteen Eighty-Four, it is based on what Orwell felt the world would become if the world were ruled by a totalitarian government. The writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four was influenced by dictatorships in the 1940’s.
In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four, most people are monitored at all times by the government. The people of Oceania also have no choice in who will become their leader. This is called a totalitarian government. Totalitarian governments do not just exist in the book, they also exist in the real world. For example, The Soviet Union was a totalitarian government. Life in the Soviet Union was much like life in Oceania. Instead of Big Brother propaganda, Soviet Russia had Joseph Stalin propaganda (106). The Soviet Union used the same tactics in their propaganda. They wanted to let

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