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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 '
1984 begins on a cold April day, the totalitarian superpower during World War II Europe. We are introduced to Winston, which is depressed and oppressed, and starts a journal on his rebellious thoughts against the Party. On which, if it’s discovered he will be executed. Winston becomes curious about Julia, and is in paranoia of her being a member of the Thought Police, but that changed when she slips him a note reading “I love you”.
As Winston and Julia fall deeper in love, Winston’s views about their government change. Winston is drawn to the revolutionary “Brotherhood”. Winston catches the eye of an Inner Party Member, O’Brien, whom he believes to be an ally. He then also meets a dark haired girl from the Fiction Department, which he believes


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