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[Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language., Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian Revolution, Orwell has been revered as an essayist, journalist and literary-political intellectual, and his works have exerted a powerful international impact on the post-World War Two era. This Introduction examines Orwell's life, work and legacy, addressing his towering achievement and his ongoing appeal. Combining important biographical detail with close analysis of his writings, the book considers the various genres in which Orwell wrote: the realistic novel, the essay, journalism and the anti-utopia. Ideally suited for readers approaching Orwell's work for the first time, the book concludes with an extended reflection on why George Orwell has enjoyed a literary afterlife unprecedented among modern authors in any language.]

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Perang terhadap terorisme atau yang lebih dikenal dengan War on Terror di Amerika Serikat merupakan respon dari pemerintahan George W. Bush terhadap serangan 9/11. Aksi yang disebut sebagai serangan terhadap Amerika Serikat ini menghasilkan perang yang tidak berkesudahan antara Amerika Serikat dan lawan yang tidak dapat diklasifikasikan dengan jelas. War on Terror membuka tiga kebijakan kontroversial dalam pemerintahan Bush yang menyerupai dengan kondisi negara Oceania dalam novel George Orwell yang berjudul 1984. Dengan penelitian yang sudah dilakukan oleh Marcelo Pelissioli, Penulis dapat menarik kesimpulan bahwa pemerintahan yang digambarkan oleh Orwell dalam novelnya memiliki karakteristik totalitarian yang dapat ditemui dalam kondisi pemerintahan demokrasi di era modern sekalipun. Jika beberapa kebijakan dalam War on Terror terbukti menyerupai dengan apa yang di gambarkan oleh Orwell, penulis merasa pantas untuk menyebut bahwa Bush menggunakan kebijakan yang berkarakteristik totalitarian kepada masyarakat Amerika Serikat.

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The war on terrorism or better known as War on Terror in United States, was a response from George Bush Administration to the 9/11 event.  This 9/11 was  considered as an attack towards America which lead to an endless war between the United States and opponents that could not be clearly classified. War on Terror then became the right justification for atleast three controversial policies that uniquely resembled state of Oceania in George Orwells novel called 1984. Based on a previous research done by Marcello Pelissioli, I draw a conclusion that the totalitarian government described by Orwell in his novel can be found in may modern era even in the democratic countries. If some of the policies in war on terror proved to be similar to what was described by Orwell, then its suitable to mention that Bush Administration was using totalitarian policies towards Americans.

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Dystopia: a natural history is the first monograph devoted to the concept of dystopia. Taking the term to encompass both a literary tradition of satirical works, mostly on totalitarianism, as well as real despotisms and societies in a state of disastrous collapse, this book redefines the central concepts and the chronology of the genre and offers a paradigm-shifting understanding of the subject. Part I assesses the theory and prehistory of dystopia. Utopia and dystopia are portrayed not as opposites, but as extremes on a spectrum of sociability, defined by a heightened form of group identity. The prehistory of the process whereby enemies are demonized is explored from early conceptions of monstrosity through Christian conceptions of the devil and witchcraft, and the persecution of heresy. Part II surveys the major dystopian moments in twentieth-century despotisms, focusing in particular upon Nazi Germany, Stalinism, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and Cambodia under Pol Pot. The concentration here is upon the political religion hypothesis as a key explanation for the chief excesses of communism in particular. Part III examines literary dystopias. It commences well before the usual starting point in the secondary literature, in anti-Jacobin writings of the 1790s. Two chapters address the main twentieth-century texts usually studied as representative of the genre, Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four. The remainder of the section examines the evolution of the genre in the second half of the twentieth century to the present.