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Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell · 1949 CE · Novel · English · Contemporary

Winston Smith revises old newspapers for the Ministry of Truth in a London where the Party watches through every screen and rewrites the past daily. He begins a forbidden diary, then a forbidden affair, and looks for the underground resistance he half believes exists. The self dismantled by the state until even the inner truth is confiscated.

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Genre
Science FictionPolitical
Theme
Power & CorruptionIndividual vs SocietyFreedom vs FateMemory & Time
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Rebel / OutlawShadow
Plot structure
Tragic Reversal
Emotional arc (story shape)
Fall–Rise–Fall (Oedipus)
Quest object (Greimas)
Freedom
Symbol / motif
The MaskThe MirrorThe Screen
Conflict
vs Societyvs Technology
Mode / tone
IronicTragic
Culture / tradition
English

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