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Totalitarianism In 1984 By George Orwell

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“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing” (Orwell 292). George Orwell wrote 1984 because, as he states in a letter he wrote to Noel Willmett, “Hitler, no doubt, will soon disappear, but only at the expense of strengthening (a) Stalin, (b) the Anglo-American millionaires and (c) all sorts of petty fuhrers° of the type of de Gaulle.” (thedailybeast.com). Orwell felt that totalitarianism was becoming a problem in the US, therefore he took it upon himself to warn people. He did this effectively, and entertainingly, by using rhetorical devices, appeals, and modes of discourse. Rhetorical devices, which are important to literary texts, are the words and phrases which an author
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