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Inside the novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four', author George Orwell establishes a dominant ideology that, coupled with totalitarian control and complete power, the loss and destruction of people's freedom follows. He established characters in a plot that represents his main discourses of personal rebellion and information control, both of which contributing to create this ideology. He uses techniques such as emotive language and binary oppositions in his attempt to get the reader to involve themselves personally and …

…had been major attempts for power from Fascist Germany and Italy. People were unsure where the future was heading and this novel was a wake up call for people needing to resist against fascism and dictatorships. He repeatedly shows the reader the loss of freedom that totalitarian control brings and emotionally involves them with the story. It is through these mediums that Orwell constructs 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' as not just a novel, but a political message.