How is Orwell's attitude towards to totalitarianism personified through this extract and in the rest of the novel? George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'

... How is Orwell's attitude towards to totalitarianism personified through this extract and in the rest of the novel? George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' presents a negative utopian picture, a society ruled by rigid totalitarianism. Orwell's opinions towards totalitarianism were clearly against and this novel illustrates this. He commonly wrote and indirectly criticized forms of governing in his novels, and '1984' is an example of this. The fictional government that Orwell creates in his novel is ruled by an entity known as 'Big Brother' and in contrast to this, Winston Smith represents a rebellion, one which doesn't accept the ideology fed to him. Thus leading to his entrapment and confrontations with the complex character, O'Brien. Although the action deals in the future, in context to the time it was written, 1948, there are a couple of elements and symbols, taken from the present and past. So for example Emanuel Goldstein, the main

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