The terrifying tandem of technology and the human intoxicant of power is used in Oceania ... "1984," after describing the squalor inhabited by ordinary people. "It was an enormous pyramidal ...

There is a riveting moment in George Orwell’s novel 1984 when Winston Smith, a citizen of the totalitarian state of Oceania ... but to keep the structure of society intact.

Winston Smith is a low-level member of The Party in 1984 England, termed AirStrip One in the nation Oceania. Oceania is in a state of perpetual war with the other two nations, Eastasia and Eurasia.

It's been almost 70 years since English novelist Eric Arthur Blair, writing under the pseudonym George Orwell, penned "1984," his famous dystopian novel which depicted life in Oceania, a state in ...

Orwell set his story in Oceania, one of three blocs or mega-states fighting over the globe in 1984. There has been a nuclear exchange, and the blocs seem to have agreed to perpetual conventional ...

But stripping “1984” of so much of its language mostly serves to undermine the novel’s central themes about language — its role as a tool of state repression, its ability to structure not ...