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Comparison Of 1984 And On The Beach

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The quote “ We live in the best of all possible worlds!” from the story Candide is the representation of the farce Orwell and Shute warn the readers that believe this. In the novels 1984, by George Orwell and On the Beach, by Nevil Shute each author uses their novel as a way to make the reader think twice about the world they live in. In 1984, Winston is a character in a world where all the citizens are submissive to the government that rules over them. This causes the population to be oblivious to what is actually happening around them. Orwell uses this to challenge the reader to question everything that they know. The novel make the reader ask; is what the government telling me actually true? By doing this the reader has subconsciously
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