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The Connections and Review of 1984
“Power is tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating”(Orwell 341). 1984 by George Orwell is about a man named Winston Smith and a girl named Julia who want to be free of Big Brother and the Inner Party’s control. Winston and Julia find it hard to be themselves around all the telescreens and thought police, but they sneak around and meet up. Winston and Julia must fight and be sure not to lose themselves in a world where everyone is controlled. This is a great book to read because of its connection to technology, and the lesson of not forcing people to be a certain way.
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On pages 107-108, George Orwell writes, “He was a fattish but active man of paralyzing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms-one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the thought police, the stability of the party depended.” This quotation proves that the Inner Party controlled and relied on people who were not intelligent. In 1984, George Orwell states, “Unquestionably Syme will be vaporized, Winston thought again... There was something subtly wrong with Syme. There was something that he lacked; discretion, aloofness, a sort of saving stupidity”(Orwell 138). This quote shows that the Inner Party wants Syme to stop being more curious than other citizens because it makes him harder to control. George Orwell writes, “The two aims of the party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth, and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought”(Orwell 269). This evidence shows that the Inner Party wanted to make sure everybody was unaware and the same. The Inner Party was getting rid of anybody who was unique and wiser than the other

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