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In ancient Greek mythology, nectar is drunk by the gods, and ambrosia (αμβροσία, Greek: immortality) is sometimes the food, sometimes the drink, of the gods, often depicted as conferring ageless immortality upon whoever consumes it. Ambrosia was brought to the gods in Olympus by doves (Odyssey xii.62), so may have been thought of in the Homeric tradition as a kind of divine exhalation of the Earth. Caffeinated drink favored by forensic scientist Abby Sciuto and represented on screen first by Hawaiian Punch and later by unsweetened cranberry juice. [35] a b Stalin, Joseph (1944). On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Moscow: Foreign Languages Press. Throughout its publication history, Nineteen Eighty-Four has been either banned or legally challenged as subversive or ideologically corrupting, like the dystopian novels We (1924) by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley, Darkness at Noon (1940) by Arthur Koestler, Kallocain (1940) by Karin Boye, and Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury. [102]Northern Ballet". northernballet.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2021. Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. It also popularised the term " Orwellian" as an adjective, with many terms used in the novel entering common usage, including "Big Brother", " doublethink", "Thought Police", " thoughtcrime", " Newspeak", and " 2 + 2 = 5". Parallels have been drawn between the novel's subject matter and real life instances of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and violations of freedom of expression among other themes. [6] [7] [8] Orwell described his book as a " satire", [9] and a display of the "perversions to which a centralised economy is liable," while also stating he believed "that something resembling it could arrive." [9] Time included the novel on its list of the 100 best English-language novels published from 1923 to 2005, [10] and it was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels list, reaching number 13 on the editors' list and number 6 on the readers' list. [11] In 2003, it was listed at number eight on The Big Read survey by the BBC. [12] Writing and publication [ edit ] Idea [ edit ] In the decades since the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, there have been numerous comparisons to Huxley's Brave New World, which had been published 17 years earlier, in 1932. [128] [129] [130] [131] They are both predictions of societies dominated by a central government and are both based on extensions of the trends of their times. However, members of the ruling class of Nineteen Eighty-Four use brutal force, torture and harsh mind control to keep individuals in line, while rulers in Brave New World keep the citizens in line by drugs, hypnosis, genetic conditioning and pleasurable distractions. Regarding censorship, in Nineteen Eighty-Four the government tightly controls information to keep the population in line, but in Huxley's world, so much information is published that readers do not know which information is relevant, and what can be disregarded. [ citation needed]

Definition of BIG BROTHER". www.merriam-webster.com. 11 October 2023. Archived from the original on 30 April 2017 . Retrieved 20 October 2023. Gustavo Fring gifts Don Eladio a poisoned bottle of Zafiro Añejo, an expensive high-end tequila brand. The brand reappears throughout the spin-off series Better Call Saul, with the agave-shaped bottle stopper becoming a recurring symbol of Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler's cons. George Orwell, 1984, part 1, chapter 4". www.george-orwell.org. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020 . Retrieved 29 October 2020.

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Charrington– an undercover officer of the Thought Police masquerading as a kind and sympathetic antiques dealer amongst the proles. The Ingsoc slogan "Our new, happy life", repeated from telescreens, evokes Stalin's 1935 statement, which became a CPSU slogan, "Life has become better, Comrades; life has become more cheerful." [72] George Orwell: Why I Write". Resort.com. Archived from the original on 9 July 2011 . Retrieved 4 July 2011.

In 1973, ex- Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper released an album called 1984 on the Columbia label (UK), consisting of instrumentals with Orwellian titles such as "Miniluv", "Minipax", "Minitrue", and so forth. We, Orwell Review". www.orwelltoday.com. Archived from the original on 23 March 2023 . Retrieved 29 December 2022. Star Trek: Picard Viewing Guide – The Essential Treks to Take Before the Show – IGN, 18 January 2020, archived from the original on 26 October 2020 , retrieved 29 October 2020 Starks, Amie (2020-08-05). " 'NCIS': The Real Drink Inside Pauley Perrette's Caf-Pow". Showbiz Cheat Sheet . Retrieved 2022-04-10.The Musical! | New Theatre". 6 November 2019. Archived from the original on 10 September 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2021. The plot was loosely based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, but the key characters were either stakeholders or employees of the company that made this beer, which was contaminated by an evil mastermind in a plot to control the world. [11] [12]

Aaronson, Jones, and Rutherford– former members of the Inner Party whom Winston vaguely remembers as among the original leaders of the Revolution, long before he had heard of Big Brother. They confessed to treasonable conspiracies with foreign powers and were then executed in the political purges of the 1960s. In between their confessions and executions, Winston saw them drinking in the Chestnut Tree Café—with broken noses, suggesting that their confessions had been obtained by torture. Later, in the course of his editorial work, Winston sees newspaper evidence contradicting their confessions, but drops it into a memory hole. Eleven years later, he is confronted with the same photograph during his interrogation. BBC – The Big Read – Top 100 Books". www.bbc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012 . Retrieved 29 December 2022. Foster, David William; Altamiranda, Daniel (1997). Twentieth-century Spanish American Literature to 1960. Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8153-2680-9. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023 . Retrieved 9 June 2015. The Ministry of Plenty rations and controls food, goods, and domestic production; every fiscal quarter, it claims to have raised the standard of living, even during times when it has, in fact, reduced rations, availability, and production. The Ministry of Truth substantiates the Ministry of Plenty's claims by manipulating historical records to report numbers supporting the claims of "increased rations". The Ministry of Plenty also runs the national lottery as a distraction for the proles; Party members understand it to be a sham in which all the larger prizes are "won" by imaginary people. Only small amounts are actually paid out.Werth, Alexander (2017). Russia at War, 1941–1945: A History. Skyhorse Publishers. ISBN 978-1510716254. In January 1944, literature professor Gleb Struve introduced Orwell to Yevgeny Zamyatin's 1924 dystopian novel We. In his response Orwell expressed an interest in the genre, and informed Struve that he had begun writing ideas for one of his own, "that may get written sooner or later." [16] [17] In 1946, Orwell wrote about the 1931 dystopian novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley in his article "Freedom and Happiness" for the Tribune, and noted similarities to We. [16] By this time Orwell had scored a critical and commercial hit with his 1945 political satire Animal Farm, which raised his profile. For a follow-up he decided to produce a dystopian work of his own. [18] [19] Writing [ edit ]



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