's novel
cries out in protest against totalitarianism, loss of collective memory (history) and loss of
language. , though written in reaction to the abuses of Stalin's government
in the USSR, was more generally a polemic directed against totalitarianism in whatever form,
with Orwell imagining what a totalitarian state would look like in the context of English
culture.
The novel warns the reader of the dangers of letting too much power
flow into the hands of too few people, and it focuses on the ways a government can maintain too
much power. For Orwell, a concentration of power leads to abuse. In the novel, Orwell depicts
power in negative terms--the boot in the face--and defines it throughas precisely the ability to
force people to do what they hate.
Orwell depicts a dystopian state which
controls every aspect of an individual's life, subjecting Party members to constant surveillance
and, by making nothing an explicit crime, making everything a potential crime....
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