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‘1984’ or 2023? How applicable is Orwell’s vision of technological surveillance to today?
Guest essay written by Ottavio Pagliaro, final-year English and Drama student at the University of Kent, Canterbury. In his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell envisioned a world that was split into three superstates, each perpetually at war, each totalitarian, with Britain part of the superstate of Oceania and renamed “Airstrip One”. In Oceania the ‘Party’ maintains… Continue reading
about the author – Callum mcgrath
Recent English graduate of Loughborough University, passionate about film and literature. On this site, I post my academic essays and related writing.
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