Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Little Brother/1984

Can I just mention how mad I am at myself that I didn't notice that "w1n5t0n" was an allusion to 1984? For those of you that have read 1984, what parallels can you think of other than these:

Ange and Winston's fling in 1984 - probably why we all thought that Ange would've been a spy.

The forms of communication to hide under the system

Government security - tracking arphids and the giant window screen (its been a while since I've read it)

1 comment:

  1. The term "Little Brother" is an obvious reference to 1984, and Homeland Security uses torture and intimidation to get people to accept the government's actions, kind of like the Ministry of Love in 1984, but not really. Those are the only ones I could recall.

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