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Analytical Desires In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four

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In Nineteen Eighty-Four Orwell presents the sexual and analytical desires of a dystopian fiction as a means of force in order to achieve political and spiritual renewal. Erika Gottlieb suggests that Winston’s desire to keep a diary is a result of his obsession in order to establish and maintain the truth as ‘Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.’ It is an attempt to defend private memory against the party’s efforts to control and rewrite history. In order for the party to retain absolute power for Big Brother, they primarily concern themselves with dominating citizens through the control of their experience of memory, history and relationships in order to eliminate freedom, individualism and autonomy. Language and
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