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“The consequences of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

            This is a quote from Goldsteins book. He is describing how the governments of the superstates use war as a means to control the masses. War does not have a concrete purpose, it is not fighting for survival. War is only used for control. Orwell wrote this book in 1949, soon after World War Two. His descriptions of war in the novel are likely influenced by his point of view on war, and how the second world war killed millions of people, and resulted nothing much less than the destruction of a large part of the world.

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Opinion of the book so far

I love the book so far. It is very cool to see how George Orwell’s predictions all the way back in 1949 have played out in the last sixty or so years. The planet Earth portrayed in his book isn’t real, but it written in a way that the reader believes it to be so. Just as Winston is frustrated in the book, as I read it, I feel his frustration too. The author does a fantastic job of immersing the reader in the book.

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1984 by George Orwell

The most important thing I’ve read about so far is the work that Winston does at his job. Him and many of the other people who work for Oceania are in charge to rewriting the past to fit what the government wants it to be. Doing this writes a false past but since it is written as fact, all past history is erased forever and replaced with what the government wants. This is important because it shows how dishonest the government of Oceania is.

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