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This 3 page paper discusses Orwell’s nightmarish novel 1984, with regard to the quote “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Past and Future in Orwells Nineteen Eighty-four Research Compiled
by K. Von Huben 4/2010 Please Introduction Nineteen Eighty-four is a terrifying novel, more so now
that it seems to be coming true. With newspapers disappearing and media companies merging into fewer and fewer giant corporations, and with an all-out assault on Internet freedom currently underway,
there will soon be nowhere left to find out what the news really is, as opposed to news that the government wants its citizens to hear. This paper considers the
way the future and past are both manipulated in George Orwells nightmarish dystopian novel, 1894 and argues that by constantly rewriting history, the government makes it impossible for its citizens
to rebel. The argument is supported by three ideas: the Thought Police; the Ministry of Truth and its constant revision of history; and the loss of memory as a
mechanism of control. Discussion The Thought Police: Orwell wrote "Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past." The key then is to start in
the present, and what is the present like for the citizens of this terrible world? Their reality is perpetual war, much like President Bush promised during his administration. Fortunately, there
was an election and Bush was ousted, but not before a new reality crept into American thinking, that perhaps it IS all right to be perpetually at war. This horrible
idea is the driving point behind the book; that the three major powers left on earth, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia are constantly at war, and that the war is ultimately
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