"1984," published in 1949. The Party, led by Big Brother, uses omnipresent technology to monitor constantly and to propagandize to the docile citizens of Oceania. The terrifying tandem of ...

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 ...

There is a riveting moment in George Orwell’s novel 1984 when Winston Smith, a citizen of the totalitarian state of Oceania, opens a poorly bound book with fraying pages. Reading this work ...

Smith lives in a constant state of uncertainty; he is not sure the year is in fact 1984. Although the official account is that Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia, Smith is quite sure he ...