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George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell and Nineteen Eighty-Four

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6 The continuing relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four

In this section, you will move to an assessment of the current relevance of Nineteen Eighty-Four by following three key themes of the novel: surveillance, free speech, and post-truth.

Person holding a banner at a demonstration with a drawing of George Orwell holding 1984. The banner reads ‘I told you so’
Figure 4 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell foreshadowed some of the issues that we now face in contemporay society