Charlie’s White Paper

George Orwell’s final novel was almost immediately successful, but its popularity has lasted. Phrases and ideas from this work can still be found in newspaper headlines weekly, with some ideas being popularised in a more lighthearted manner (BBC’s Room 101 and Big Brother, running all over the world). Not only that, but this novel has entered the consciousness of a generation together with various images of totalitarian regimes, which act as an immunisation to some of the tactics of these governments. The headline “Big Brother is watching you!” fills people with fear at the prospect of starting down the slippery slope to Oceania, which cannot be understood by someone who hasn’t read the book.
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