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The motif of slavery is seen everywhere -- whether in the propaganda campaigns announcing the scarcity of products, or in the "newspeak" slogans that populate Oceania, or in the thought police that keep "proles" from arriving at any real truth or connection with the past. Indeed, Winston's attempt to understand history as it really happened is seen as a kind of act of terrorism.
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The novel deals with the ways in which Winston attempts to reconnect with the Past, with history, with humanity and with Truth -- and the extents that Big Brother (the totalitarian symbol of evil) will go to keep him from being successful.
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Works Cited
Everyman: a Moral Play. NY: Fox, Duffield and Company, 1903. Print.
Lief, Ruth Ann. Homage to Oceania. OH: Ohio State University Press, 1969. Print.
Orwell, George. 1984. NY: Penguin, 1977. Print.
Taylor, D.J. Orwell: The Life. NY: Henry Holt and Company, 2003. Print.
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