1984
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In the book, Orwell uses his sharp writing and profound insights to describe a suffocating and terrifying totalitarian society. In this imaginary "Oceania", the ruling class uses extreme means such as changing history, distorting language, and annihilating family ties to dumb down and suppress people's thoughts, and uses ubiquitous "telescreens" with surveillance functions to control people's behavior. People live in extreme poverty, and human nature has degenerated to the point of no distinction between right and wrong. The entire society relies entirely on the personality worship of leaders and hatred of domestic and foreign enemies. Through the description of the life of Winston Smith, an ordinary person in this society, the book reveals that totalitarianism in any form will inevitably lead to the tragedy of the people and even the entire country, and warns the world to beware of this expected darkness becoming a reality.
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