George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

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George Orwell's novel *Nineteen Eighty-Four* is a dystopian classic depicting a totalitarian surveillance state where individual freedom and truth are brutally suppressed.

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instanceOf dystopian novel
novel
political fiction
adaptedAs film adaptations
radio adaptations
stage adaptations
television adaptations
author George Orwell
centralTheme censorship
language as control
loss of individual freedom
manipulation of truth
psychological control
surveillance
totalitarianism
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
featuresEntity Big Brother
featuresLocation Airstrip One
Ministry of Love
Ministry of Peace
Ministry of Plenty
Ministry of Truth
Oceania
featuresOrganization The Party
Thought Police
firstPublishedFormat print
genre dystopian fiction
political satire
science fiction
hasAlternativeTitle 1984
hasMotto Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
War is peace
influenced concept of Orwellian state
political discourse on surveillance
introducesConcept Newspeak
Room 101
Two Minutes Hate
doublethink
memory hole
thoughtcrime
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainCharacter Julia
O'Brien
Winston Smith
narrativePerspective third-person limited
originalLanguage English
publicationYear 1949
publisher Secker & Warburg
setInFictionalYear 1984

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