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The novel 1984 by George Orwell is an American classic that explores the human mind when it comes to power, corruption, control, and the negative-utopian society. Imagine living in a “world of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons. Warriors fighting, triumphing, persecuting…three million people all with the same face,”(64) and there is the world of 1984, frightening, grotesque, and completely controlled by the ruling Party. Winston Smith is an insignificant member of the ruling Party, in the …

…streets, and both know that they have betrayed each other in the Ministry of Love. They depart each other with few words, and know that there can never be anything between them again. Winston, a man who once said “the only thing that can keep you human is to not allow the government to get inside you”(137), looks up at a poster of Big Brother, and finally realizes that he has come to love him.