Submitted by TatorTot0314 on January 29, 2008

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1984 Part One

In the book 1984, by George Orwell, the people are controlled by a superior being, the Big Brother. The goal of the Party, which is the government, is to turn the brains of all the citizens into a thoughtless working machine. This brainwashing is achieved in many different ways. Some of the ways are constant media messages proclaiming the power of the Party, restricting the amount of luxuries each person was allotted, and severely punishing those who dared oppose the ways of the government. Simple human desires were revoked, and human instincts that were indestructible were made to look ugly and dirty.
The natural human desire for sex was made out to be a mundane duty only to...

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