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 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newspeak, the "official language" of Oceania, is extraordinary in that its vocabulary decreases every year; the state of Oceania sees no purpose in maintaining a complex language, and so Newspeak is a language dedicated to the "destruction of words".
In many ways, Oceania is indeed a future metamorphosis of the British Empire (although Orwell is careful to state that, geographically, it also includes the United States, and that the currency is the dollar).
Oceania's 1950s are based on the Soviet 1920s, a time of civil war and revolutionary turmoil.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four   (11273 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four
A chart describing the population of Oceania and a map of the world in Nineteen Eighty-Four is also available.
This web site is intended to aid anyone who wants to use the Internet to research various aspects of George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Additionally, a still from the 1956 Columbia film, "Nineteen Eighty-Four", and several links are offered.
www.ucsolutions.com /nef/index2.htm   (11273 words)

  
 The Complete Newspeak Dictionary from Orwell's 1984
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This site explains 1984, thought crime, novel, dictionary, modern, big brother, doublethink, Oceania Eastasia Eurasia, unperson Winston Smith bb pc libertarian party government.
www.newspeakdictionary.com /index-man.html   (11273 words)

  
 Oceania (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oceania is one of the three super-states in George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
Oceania doesn't have a single capital, although what could be seen as regional capitals such as London are in place.
It occasionally conquers the rest of Africa, but is later driven back by Eurasia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oceania_%28fiction%29   (11273 words)

  
 Sound Space: Science Fiction Audio Reviews
While the Eurythmics' contributions were not wholly inappropriate for Nineteen Eighty-Four, with this CD fans can now hear how Muldowney's discarded themes complemented Radford's dark, suitably dystopian vision.
The militaristic anthem "Oceania, 'Tis for Thee" functions as a recurring motif, and through various interpretations serves to emphasize the government's insidious, all-powerful control.
Greatest Science Fiction Hits IV Star Trek: The Motion Picture Original Soundtrack
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue117/sound.html   (11273 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell was first broadcast as program number 55 on
Nineteen Eighty-Four has been used to the point of cliché in discussions of privacy issues.
Oceania's four ministries are housed in huge pyramidal structures displaying the 3 slogans of the party on their sides.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four   (11273 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Dominic Muldowney)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Music of Oceania (Dominic Muldowney) The film adaptation of George Orwell's classic vision of the future was met with mixed criticism internationally, and a harsh response by those in America.
Nineteen Eighty-Four recently became a permanent addition to the Sundance Institute Collection as a classic work of 20th century cinema.
It's no surprise that the music in Nineteen Eighty-Four became an experiment (by Virgin) in combining traditional orchestral music with pop sounds --the same approach had been concurrently attempted with Frank Herbert's Dune.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/1984.html   (11273 words)

  
 The Ministry of Love: Nineteen Eighty-four
Nineteen Eighty-four will probably remain unparallelled as the ultimate political horror.
During the 1950s, readers of Nineteen Eighty-four looked obsessively for signs of Orwell's horrifying vision of the future coming true, just like readers of William Gibson 's Neuromancer do today.
However fantastic it may sound, every single ideological aspect in Nineteen Eighty-four has existed in real totalitarian or crypto-totalitarian states, although often in far less extreme forms and seldom explicitly.
hem.passagen.se /replikant/1984_nineteen_eighty-four.htm   (11273 words)

  
 SoundtrackNet : Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Music of Oceania Soundtrack
SoundtrackNet : Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Music of Oceania Soundtrack
MUSIC - Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Music of Oceania
But I really don't see the casual soundtrack listener rushing out to buy this one, although they should seriously consider checking it out.
www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database/?id=1905   (11273 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Dominic Muldowney)
Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Music of Oceania (Dominic Muldowney) The film adaptation of George Orwell's classic vision of the future was met with mixed criticism internationally, and a harsh response by those in America.
Nineteen Eighty-Four recently became a permanent addition to the Sundance Institute Collection as a classic work of 20th century cinema.
Shot in and around the precise locations and on the dates chronicled in Orwell's novel, the cast included John Hurt, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher and, in his final screen role, Richard Burton.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/1984.html   (816 words)

  
 1984 and Nineteen Eighty Four -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
The girl symbolises Julia in the novel, overthrowing the totalitarianism society of Oceania.
In the novel, Orwell criticises the 'perfect society.' Some famous authors have written utopian novels, but 1984 is different.
These novels help humanity share their opinions and ideas around, and to enforce the continuation of democracy into the future.
www.literatureclassics.com /essays/293   (1106 words)

  
 Harvard University Press/Imagining Australia
Ranging from the country's colonial beginnings to its more globally oriented present, the nineteen essays by distinguished scholars working on the cutting edge of the field present a multi-faceted view of the vast land down under.
A central theme is the relation of cultural products to nature and history.
Issues explored include problems of race and gender, colonialism and postcolonialism, individual and national identity, subjective experience and international connections.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/RYAIMA.html   (201 words)

  
 Oceania (fiction) - Art History Online Reference and Guide
Oceania is one of the three super-states in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novel's version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
Oceania doesn't have a single capital, although what could be seen as regional capitals such as London are in place.
It occasionally conquers the rest of Africa, but is later driven back by Eurasia.
www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/Oceania_%28fiction%29   (156 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Big Brother (1984)
Oceania is one of the three super-states in George Orwells novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, and is the location of the novels version of London, where Winston Smith, the main character, lives.
The reality TV program Big Brother takes its name from Nineteen Eighty-Four and a similarly named figure is big mama — the informal name for the internet censor on web boards in the People's Republic of China.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes 1984) was written by George Orwell under the working title of The Last Man in Europe.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Big-Brother-(1984)   (156 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four
A chart describing the population of Oceania and a map of the world in Nineteen Eighty-Four is also available.
The links dealing with Nineteen Eighty-Four as it appears in film and other forms of media are provided in the last category, Film & Media.
Included are the rules of Newspeak, Newspeak words and their translations, and an atlas of the world as portrayed in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
www.ucsolutions.com /nef/index2.htm   (722 words)

  
 Britmovie - Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984
Set in the totalitarian state of Oceania, this is story of citizen Winston Smith (John Hurt), a bureaucratic bookkeeper whose job it is to erase certain people from existence and rewrite history for the government.
Director Michael Radford’s faithful attempt at bringing George Orwell's 1984 to the big screen captures the grim mood of the fascist government, but perhaps stays too faithful to the classic novel.
www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/fiction/filmography/014.html   (193 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Inner Party
In the world of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Party which controls Oceania is split into two halves: the Inner Party and the Outer Party.
The Inner Party represents the aristocratic political class in Oceania, and live in splendor unimaginable by the proles or Outer Party members.
Goldstein's book explains the rationale behind the class divisions in Oceania.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Inner-Party   (193 words)

  
 Inner Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the world of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Party which controls Oceania is split into two halves: the Inner Party and the Outer Party.
The Inner Party represents the aristocratic political class in Oceania, and live in splendor unimaginable by the proles or Outer Party members.
Goldstein's book explains the rationale behind the class divisions in Oceania.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inner_Party   (203 words)

  
 Ingsoc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In George Orwell's dystopic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Ingsoc (Newspeak for "English Socialism") is the ideology of the totalitarian government of Oceania (The Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa).
Eastasia and Eurasia, two other superstates that came to be formed and ruled by ideology in a similar manner as Oceania, each have their own equivalents to Ingsoc.
Ingsoc apparently came to dominance during a communist revolution, but as The Party is constantly changing (that is, rewriting) history it is difficult to tell precisely how it came about.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ingsoc   (584 words)

  
 George Orwell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orwell's concern over the power of language to shape reality is also reflected in his invention of Newspeak, the official language of the imaginary country of Oceania in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
James Burnham, whose book The Managerial Revolution was a major influence on the development of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Orwell was shot in the neck near Huesca on May 20, 1937, an experience he described in his short essay "Wounded by a Fascist Sniper", as well as in Homage to Catalonia.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Orwell   (584 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
That the United Kingdom is in Oceania rather than in Eurasia is commented upon in the book as an historical anomaly.
The novel itself explains little about the history of Oceania, but during the second part of 1984, Winston Smith receives a copy of "the book", by Emmanuel Goldstein, a tract which explains the concepts of party rule and the history of the IngSoc party.
Goldstein's book explains that the ideologies of the three states are basically the same, but it is imperative to keep the public ignorant of that.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /nineteen_eighty-four.htm   (584 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Winston is employed by the Ministry of Truth, which exercises complete control over all media in Oceania: his job in the Ministry's Records Department involves doctoring historical records in order to comply with the Party's version of the past.
Winston Smith, a member of the Outer Party, lives in the ruins of London, the chief city of Airstrip One— a front-line province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania.
Based on Winston's experience there at the hands of O'Brien, the basic procedure is to pair the subject with his or her worst fear for an extended period of time, eventually breaking down the person's mental faculties and ending with a sincere embrace of the Party by the brainwashed subject.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four   (10353 words)

  
 Nineteen Eighty-Four by Dominic Muldowney (Cinemusic Online Soundtrack Review)
The story centers around a secret rebel named Winston Smith, who works in the Ministry of Truth in a totalitarian state called Oceania.
The music for Oceania is cleverly developed throughout the score from Winston's point of view.
Winston Smith falls in love with another secret rebel, has an affair, is betrayed by someone he thought was a friend, and is finally brainwashed into embracing the state he tried so hard to fight--before he is tragically killed by that same state.
www.cinemusic.net /reviews/1999/1984.html   (10353 words)

  
 Winston Smith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Peter Cushing as Winston Smith in the 1954 BBC Television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four, with Donald Pleasence as Syme.
Winston Smith is the protagonist of George Orwell 's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Given the rewriting of history prevalent in Oceania (the fictional nation of which Winston Smith is a citizen), it seems quite possible that Smith would never have heard of Churchill.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Winston_Smith   (10353 words)

  
 Big Brother (1984) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Big Brother is the nominal leader of Oceania in Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's chilling dystopic novel.
The reality TV program Big Brother takes its name from Nineteen Eighty-Four and a similarly named figure is big mama — the informal name for the internet censor on web boards in the People's Republic of China.
"Big Brother" is a dictator in a totalitarian state, taken to its utmost logical consequence.
www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Big_Brother_(1984)   (442 words)

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