Marxists Aspects of "1984"

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This paper discusses how George Orwell's book, "1984" illustrates and refracts the Marxist criticisms of the potential social, economic and political conditions of the future. It explains that, although Orwell was judging humanity as a whole in "1984", the undertones of Karl Marx's "ruthless criticisms" are extremely prevalent. The paper concludes that although 1984 has come and gone, George Orwell's masterpiece has endured. This is due to the fact that the book is a comprehensive illustration of the belief and value systems of current issues in American society.

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"Another example of alignment between the book and our own society is newspeak. This was the official language of Oceania and had been devised to meet the ideological needs of Ingsoc. The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view, but also to make all other modes of thought impossible. Its vocabulary was so constructed as to give exact and often very subtle expression to every meaning that a Party member could properly wish to express, while excluding all other meanings and also the possibility of arriving at them by indirect methods. This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words."

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