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What Are The Similarities Between 1984 And 1984

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A similarity that both novels share is a scientific and technological slowdown due to the takeover of the “upper” societal group. An example in 1984 is in Goldstein’s book, “Science and technology were developing at a prodigious speed, and it seemed natural to assume that they would go on developing. This failed to happen, partly because of the impoverishment caused by a long series of wars and revolutions, partly because scientific and technical progress depended on the empirical habit of thought, which could not survive in a strictly regimented society (Orwell 189). This example shows how inventions and discoveries have slowed in this dystopian society because the people get in trouble for conducting ideas or trying to discover something
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