1984 A Futuristic Novel

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1984 was written in 1949 as a foresight in to the future, George Orwell pictured the near future to be totally control by controlled by 3 super countries. The main character of the book lives and works in one of the super countries, his name is Winston. Winston works for the Ministry of Truth, a branch of the government that works on changing all written document to agree with the party lines at any time. For example the country that Winston works for was at war with one super country and then it switched sides and started to battle the other super country. Winston had to change all the newspapers that claimed that they were at war with one country to say they were at war with the other country and make it look like they had always been at war with the second country.
Most citizens of the country listened to the party and believed every thing that they were told to believe, Winston was not like this, and he was rebellious in nature. His first act of rebellion was the act of keeping a journal, this was not allowed because all written documents were to be controlled or produced by the party. Another thing that made the journal an act of rebellion was the fact that he kept tract of the changes he was forced to make at the ministry of truth. This enabled Winston to keep track of the truth as he knew it and helped him to keep his sanity.
Winston second act of rebellion was a love interest. His love interest was another employee at the ministry of truth. Having a lover was not allowed because there was not suppose to be any sex for pleasure the only sex allowed was for reproduction and was monitored through tele-screens. Tele-screens were much like today’s TV’s but they could see both ways so the party used them to monitor the everyday activities of the people. At first Winston would meet the girl in crowded area and the escape into the woods or some other place with no tele-screen. Then Winston found an apartment with no tele-scree...