| | Hope Begins in the Dark: Re-reading Nineteen Eighty-Four - Charles' George Orwell Links |
 | | Nineteen Eighty-Four can be seen to be a text which differs from itself in that its pessimistic surface meaning contradicts and, to some extent, dominates other meanings the text can be seen to have. |
 | | Since its publication Nineteen Eighty-Four has developed to be both a text with a political meaning and a text with a meaning which is to some extent dependent on the political views of its readers and, moreover, on the political views of its writer. |
 | | Nineteen Eighty-Four and its direct predecessor in Orwell’s novels, Animal Farm, can be read as a reflection of both the West’s changing relationship with Communism in this period and Orwell’s position within this relationship. |
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