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1984 By George Orwell: Summary
George Orwell's 1984

Introduction- This story takes place in a state called Oceania. The main characters introduced are Winston Smith who is a worker on one of the four branches of government on Oceania. This four branches are "The Ministry of Truth" where they falsificate or remove all past documents such as books, newspapers, magazines, records, tapes and anything containing information about the past and are rewritten with the "accurate" meaning of whatever the Government (known as "
Big Brother") wants it to be. All past records are erased and everyone must believe what the new ones say or else they are caught by the Thought Police. The
Thought Police are a group of modern people who are like the police of our time except that this police
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The Telescreens are constantly giving you information of the wars won and also telling you what to do and always watching every movement you do, no expressions are admitted in Oceania other than hatred or the one "Big Brother" tells you to. The second branch is called "The Ministry of Love" where people were punished, tortured and were taught to hate each other.
The third branch is called "The Ministry of Plenty" where economic affairs were handled, they decided who got how much of something almost always being too little of a ration. The last branch is called "The Ministry of Peace" which handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit and who they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read "WAR IS
PEACE", "FREEDOM IS SLAVERY" and "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH". Winston worked in the
Ministry of truth where he's job was to rewrite the news on the newspaper called
Times. Another character is O'Brien who helps Winston love Big Brother for
Winston hated Big Brother. Julia is the girl that falls in love (which is a very big crime) with Winston. Katharine is Winston's wife though he hasn't seen

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