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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

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What’s it about?

In a totalitarian future where history is rewritten and thoughts are policed, one man's desperate rebellion against the all-seeing Party reveals the terrifying cost of truth and freedom.

You’ll learn

  • How totalitarianism controls through language
  • The fragility of objective truth
  • The psychology of power and fear
  • Why resistance can be crushed