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//**1984**//

//1984// is a novel by English writer George Orwell, published in 1949 (McKay et al 930). The novel is set in the year 1984 in a futuristic totalitarian society, where the government, led by the omnipresent Big Brother, uses psychological terror and advanced technology to control the people. Orwell wrote //1984// after witnessing the horrors of the totalitarian governments of both Hitler and Stalin, and the novel is often seen as one of the prime examples of the dystopian literature that grew out of the fear and pessimism that engulfed Europe after two devastating World Wars.




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