George Orwell and 1984: a personal view

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Published: Dec 15, 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21676/23897856.90
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oligarchic collectivism, the Party, totalitarian society, the proles, the ruling class, Big Brother, doublethink, totalitarianism, Ingsoc, Oceania, the Thought Police, Great Purgues, the Two Minute Hate, the Youth League, the Junior Anti-Sex League
George Orwell and 1984: a personal view

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Alfredo Sandoval Gómez

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George Orwell´s 1984 is considered a great negative utopia, in the sense it depicts the nightmare of what life might become in an oligarchic collectivism pursued to its logical conclusion. Under a social setup which is nothing but totalitarian barbarism, eternal warfare is the price one pays for an elusive peace. The Party with capital P keeps a total control over all of man´s actions as well as thoughts . The novel is a great satire and it attempts to diagnose man´s alienation in all its aspects, but with special emphasis on the social organization recommended by Marx and practiced by Stalin.

 

 

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Sandoval Gómez, A. (2009). George Orwell and 1984: a personal view. Praxis, 5(1), 33–47. https://doi.org/10.21676/23897856.90
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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2009): (January - December)
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Alfredo Sandoval Gómez

LICENCIADO EN LENGUAS MODERNAS, Universidad de Pamplona (Colombia). D.E.A., ETUDES ANGLOPHONES, Université de Nantes (Francia). Docente de Tiempo Completo de la Universidad del Magdalena. Grupo Interdisciplinario de Evaluación Pedagógica (GIEP).

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