how can we relate the book 1984 by George Orwell to today's world?
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A lot of what's in the book is happening right now...but the fictional leadership characters in 1984 actually had more smarts and control than their real-world counterparts of today. lol.
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"Clockwork Orange"\n\n\na classic statement on the status quo of society.
989032
I have that book too,and I think it was written in the 70s.It sounded far fetched when I read it about 5 years ago but it does seem real now.
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I like this one!! I read Orwell's epic a long time ago,as time went on I couldn't see it.Now as a man of 58 years, my feelings have changed.I consider myself of above average intelligence,I've lived a pretty good life,I've particapated in two wars,been around the world twice.My views of George's work has also changed.The man had a sight akin to Nostradamas,some of the things he wrote of are showing signs of coming to fruition,these are just my views of course,but as time goes on the things he penned can linked to the way our future is progressing.Just a thought.
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That's why British have become so paranoiac!!! I could not first understand George Orwell in his first book "animals farm" but he made himself clear in "1984". \nIt's really sad how  technology becomes satanic in the hands of insane greedy politicians. Between us: we don't have a better situation in Iran! I guess this disease is contagious.
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That book is deep, it is amazing in fact. YOu should do yourself a favor and read the whole thing. YOu will find so much in it that speaks to todays culture and society. In school I wrote a whole paper on how the song hotel california could have been used in that book as they traveled. Good luck.
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V is for vendetta ripped 1984 off big time!\n\n1984 revolves around the all powerful state managing every aspect of a persons life. V is for Vendetta is set in England in a few decades where a Fascist styled government is oppressive and brutally treats with groups they don't agree with, like Gays or Muslims, etc... \n\nBoth are a sort of warning of the dangers of a government that loses its base amongst the people and rules with a heavy hand.
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"Big Brother" is from a novel written by British author George Orwell called "1984" - it's about an omnipotent government controlling every aspect of citizen's lives.
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Our dependence upon technology and the fear it fosters as technology becomes a more prevalent entity in our everyday life is the critique of contemporary culture--for example, the strange chemicals in the school that kill a worker cleaning up the asbestos or the conversation between Jack and Babette in the bedroom that is constantly interrupted by a blaring television set. I hope this helps you get another perspective on the novel. Good luck.
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it came from Eric Arthur Blair  much better known by the pen name George Orwell, was a British author and journalist. Noted as a political and cultural commentator, as well as an accomplished novelist, Orwell is among the most widely admired English-language essayists of the 20th century. He is best known for two novels written towards the end of his short life: Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four.\n\nNineteen Eighty-Four has given the English language the phrase 'Big Brother', or 'Big Brother is watching you'. This is used to refer to any oppressive regime, but particularly in the context of invasion of privacy. The TV series 'Big Brother' is named after this phrase.
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Read 1984 by George Orwell.  The schools are dumbing down our children.  Check the spelling words for a high school senior.  The govt is turning our children against us.  Can't even spank your children anymore.  The list goes on and on.  The goal is total govt control, generation after generation is being groomed for that future.  Give it another 30 years.
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3 words: "New World Order"\n\nOur world is being sabotaged. The true wisdom of reality and society is kept from the masses. Cures for diseases like cancer, AIDs are supressed. Problems are engineered, a public reaction results and we are provided a FALSE solution by the government. The people who control society - the men & women at the top, are power hungry individuals corrupted by unfettered greed. If you are different, you will not make it to power. As a result the same people are controlling the governments and societies of the world for thousands of years. Look deeper into history, into the nature of reality, and you will find some astonishing things that relate to technology. For instance the construction of the pyramids, many biblical texts speak about flying machines, spaceships, there are even pictures of what appear to be helicopters on religious cave drawings. I urge you not to believe everything we are told to believe... technology has existed long before our modern society, probably technology and cures far greator than what we possess today.. however the true knowledge of the past must always be supressed by the ones who seek to control reality today.
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about a controlling totalitarian govt??\n\nditch the word "controlling" or u can use the term "ruling"\n\n\ntry to make thr first statement in the "not only - but also" form.\n\nGeorge Orwell’s "1984" is not only about a controlling totalitarian government, but also about one man's....\n\noverthrow an opposing govt..??? why would he want to overthrow a govt not in power??\n\nleader's control "over" a nation "using" fear.\n\norwell's novel is a forewarning (ditch the "is a beckon") as to what "would" happen if an induvidual comes to power and the costs to retain power.\n\n\nthe world is created, in resemblance "to" Russia,during...\n\n\ntoday's society . The "suppression"\n(would be more appropriate)\n of freedom caused misery among the people of Oceania and thus they sought a revolution.\n\n\nPls edit the last para (Big brother.... at any given moment)..makes little sense.\n\nmy idea : \nBig brother hears any sound that Winston makes and any sound louder than a whisper is picked up. And as long as he remained within the range of the metal plate, he could be seen and heard.  \n\n\n\nfinally..\nIn the novel, orwell uses the concept of communism and it's effect on the people.\n\n\n\n\nWell.. those were all the possible suggestions i could give u. Some of my suggestions can be dropped since i have no idea about this passage's context (George Orwell's 1984) .
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Welcome to the Orwellian version of America.\n\nRemember always that "war is peace"
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This is the book we were assigned in my college global economics class:\n\nGlobal Political Economy, by Robert Gilpin:\n\nhttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/069108677X/qid=1139437448/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-4364480-8798247?s=books&v=glance&n=283155
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we could go back to the classics?\n\nblack people, sharks, bees, communists, athiests and science in general?\n\nsome people never left the classics...\n\noh and nuclear war... how could I forget?
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George Orwell - 1984 - published in 1949