Nineteen Eighty-Four

English Alternative forms en 1984 Etymology After Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), a dystopian novel by George Orwell, set in the year 1984. Noun - nineteen Eighty-Four A society characterized by rigid government control enforced through propaganda and intensive surveillance. en 2008 Ilan Kapoor The Postcolonial Politics of Development 69 I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario. en 1999 Gail Fine Plato Two: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul 265 The term 'nuclear family' may be found dislikable, but it is useful in avoiding the suggestion that Plato wants to abolish the family in favour of impersonal institutions of a Nineteen Eighty-Four type. en 1995 Peter Parker; Frank Kermode The reader's companion to twentieth-century writers 192 Dick's novel condemns this method, because she felt it destroyed creative work and encouraged a Nineteen Eighty-Four atmosphere of fear, and the novel ends with the triumph of hope and a faith in human love. en 1970 William Johnston The still point: reflections on Zen and Christian mysticism 171 Thus arises again the specter of a Nineteen Eighty-Four, of a brave new world of robots, of a waste land that is ever more sterile, of a West that is sick from lack of mysticism. en 1969 Bryce F. Ryan Social and cultural change 3 Whether produced as a Utopia or as a Nineteen Eighty-Four, a condition of changelessness would make man something less than human. en 1968 Arthur Goddard Harry Elmer Barnes, learned crusader: the new history in action 331 Barnes finds an acceleration of the Orwellian trend in American life, and he cites C. Wright Mills' The Power Elite as providing "the best description of the progress made toward a Nineteen Eighty-Four social order in the United States. en terms derived from Nineteen Eighty-Four terms derived from fiction en Forms of government