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Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel policy of dystopian fiction, written by George Orwell between 1947 and 1948 and published on June 8, 1949. The novel introduced the concepts of ubiquitous and watchful Big Brother or Big Brother, the notorious Room 101, of the ubiquitous Thought Police and Newspeak, adaptation of English in which it reduces and becomes the lexicon for law enforcement purposes, based on the following principle: What is the language cannot be thought (Aubrey, 1983). Many analysts detect parallels between today's society and the world of 1984, suggesting that we are beginning to live in what has become known as Orwellian society. The term Orwellian has become synonymous with the companies or organizations that reproduce totalitarian attitudes and repressive as represented in the novel. The novel was a success in terms of sales and has become one of the most influential books of the twentieth century (orwell, 1977).

It is considered as one of the masterpieces of the trilogy of the dystopias of the early twentieth century (also classified as science fiction dystopian), along with the 1932 novel Brave New World (Brave new world in English), Aldous Huxley, and Fahrenheit 451 of Ray Bradbury. Some consider this novel a plagiarism of the work we written by Yevgeny Zamyatin in 1921. Meanwhile Orwell acknowledged the influence of it in his novel (Aubrey, 1983).

The novel was written by George Orwell under the working title of The Last Man in Europe (The Last Man in Europe in English). However, the editors both United Kingdom and in the United States, where the book was released simultaneously, changed the name to Nineteen Eighty-four commercial reasons. In that year the action takes place told in the book. First published on June 8, 1949, the bulk of the novel was written by Orwell on the island of Jura in Scotland in 1948, although Orwell had been writing small parts since 1945 (orwell, 1949). The title 1984 is the result of interchanging the position of the last two digits of the year in which the book was written, 1948. In the novel, the company located in a future England, Empire of the Pacific, and is divided into three groups. The members 'external' Single Party, members of the Council leader, or inner circle of the party, and a mass of marginalized people living in fear and isolation policy, the commoners (Bowker, 2003).

Members 'outsiders' are the bureaucracy of the state apparatus (hence the need for strict monitoring), living under oppressive control and propaganda demoralizing and alienating that prevents them from thinking critically. The state removes all rights and condemned to an existence little more than miserable, at risk of losing their lives or suffers terrible indignities if demonstrated no sufficient fidelity and adherence to the national cause. This will organize many events which require the active participation of members, shouting slogans in favor of the party, shouting against alleged traitors, giving free rein to the wildest fanaticism. Only fanatical fervor can ...