1984
If the state or a man has absolute power over his citizens it has always been a mystery what the consequences are going to be. George Orwell shows us one of the dystopian results in his book 1984. He created in his book a world devastated by nuclear war and poverty, where the West has fallen under the spell of a totalitarian socialist dictator, Big Brother. A political demagogue and religious cult leader all rolled into one, Big Brother's power is so strong that no one may know if he even exists. People have no priorities and no individual rights. The state has such a power that it can even change people’s ideologies.
One of the book’s main ideas is Thought control. Big Brother's Ingsoc Party has perfected the uses of high technology to monitor the lives of its populace, and to insure unswerving loyalty through surveillance and propaganda. One of the technologies which Big Brother uses is televisions that are two-way interactive and it cannot be turned off, and which......
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