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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Orwell, George

Orwell, George
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
An Introduction To 1984: Structure And Meaning

The novel, it should be said at the outset of this discussion, is not
presented by Orwell as an objective prediction of what life in the year 1984
will be like. It would be more accurate to describe it as a projection of
certain tendencies, an exaggerated picture as seen in a series of distorted
mirrors of what life in the future might be like if what Orwell saw as the
logical outcome of these present tendencies were to come to pass. His purpose
in writing this great satirical work of political fiction was, ...

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