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9 pages in length. George Orwell may not have had any ability to see into the future, but when he penned his prophetic novel, 1984, he targeted a more accurate portrayal than anyone could have ever realized. The futuristic society, in which everyone's thoughts and actions are controlled by an oppressive, totalitarian government known as Big Brother, leaves little of the civilization one has come to know. The writer discusses the use of power within the novel, as well as associates it with both overt and subliminal application. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of power within George Orwells foreboding classic, 1984. Never before has a novel described such a fantastical foretelling of events to occur in the future of civilization. Thought
to be merely a fictional account from the authors imagination, 1984 more accurately portrayed the future than even Orwell would have liked to believe.
The main image throughout the book is that of crushing power and intimidation cast upon the people by a suppressive government. Yet there exists an underlying hierarchy of
power, as well, that transcends through the populace itself, creating other levels of domination among the various ranks. While characters within the book are dominated by bureaucracy, so, too,
are the people who dominate over one another. I. OVERT POWER Without the overshadowing theme
of power, George Orwells 1984 would not have had the same impact upon generations and generations of readers who have been consumed by its concept. The novel not only
addresses such realities as governmental control over the media, economy and personal lives of its citizens, but it also appeals to such current issues as sexual freedom, censorship and control
of virtually every aspect of ones individual life. "What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude is
unimportant so long as they are kept steadily at work, but the morale of the Party itself. Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and
even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph" (Orwell,
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