In "Nineteen Eighty-Four, " Orwell creates a character named Syme who I find eerily similar to Luntz.

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For years the question of Orwell's intentions in Nineteen Eighty-Four has caused great debate.

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My country started collecting various-sized bits of Nineteen Eighty-Four like so many grim commemorative postage stamps.

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How had it come about that the targets in Nineteen Eighty-Four were English socialists and their nightmare totalitarian state?

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This use of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and its contradiction to Orwell's own long-stated support for some kind of socialism, needed explaining.

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George Orwell warned of the dangers of a tyrannical government that justified its rule in the name of the greater good in his classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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George Orwell's classic "Nineteen Eighty-Four" shows how even a free society is susceptible to manipulation by overdosing on worn-out prefabricated phrases that convert people into lifeless dummies, who become easy prey for the political class.

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Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).

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