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  2. Thought Police - Wikipedia

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    Thought Police. In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, the Thought Police ( Thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the superstate of Oceania, who discover and punish thoughtcrime (personal and political thoughts unapproved by Ingsoc 's régime). Using criminal psychology and omnipresent surveillance (via ...

  3. Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    Animal Farm. Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive ...

  4. Thoughtcrime - Wikipedia

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    Thoughtcrime. In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, thoughtcrime is the offense of thinking in ways not approved by the ruling Ingsoc party. In the official language of Newspeak, the word crimethink describes the intellectual actions of a person who entertains and holds politically unacceptable thoughts; thus the government of The Party ...

  5. 85 George Orwell Quotes About Truth, Politics and Power

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    10. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” 11. “Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on – that is, badly.”

  6. What George Orwell got right in '1984' - AOL

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    What George Orwell got right in '1984'. There may be no one who can say "I told you so" better than George Orwell, who was born today, June 25th in 1903. In Orwell's novel "1984" — which was ...

  7. Ministries in Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia

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    The use of contradictory names in this manner may have been inspired by the British and American governments; during the Second World War, the British Ministry of Food oversaw rationing (the name "Ministry of Food Control" was used in World War I) and the Ministry of Information restricted and controlled information, rather than supplying it; while, in the U.S., the War Department was ...

  8. Opinion: A completely new take on ‘1984’ - AOL

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    At a time when George Orwell’s ’1984’ feels more relevant than ever, Sandra Newman’s novel ‘Julia’ critiques Orwell’s misogyny in ‘1984’ while joining a long tradition of ...

  9. Newspeak - Wikipedia

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    Newspeak. In the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), by George Orwell, Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate. To meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania, the Party created Newspeak, which is a controlled language of simplified grammar and limited vocabulary designed ...

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