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For my written task, I wanted to focus on the learning topics presented in part four. My task is a small, portable handbook made for each party member to carry on them at all times. I wanted to represent the themes throughout the book 1984, such as totalitarianism, conformity, the effect of simplistic words/thinking (newspeak), surveillance, loyalty to the government, lack of creativity, and the widespread untrusting nature of the society.

After reading 1984, there was identifiable dull and simplistic language, in able to control the overall thinking of the society. In my handbook, I tried to incorporate this idea by using shortened language that I invented, newspeak words taken directly from the book, and the overall dullness

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