By: Derrick Holmes "I hate purity, I hate goodness. I don't want any virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bone" (Orwell 102). This statement is one of many similar to it that are uttered throughout George Orwell's book 1984. In this antiutopian novel, the people of society are viewed as sinful and untrustworthy. A serious of devices are used to monitor the citizens in this government run society. The novel gives a sad vision of the world of the future. When Orwell wrote 1984 in 1948, a strange coincidence, Europe was in the middle of World War II. "The war was unquestionably an important....

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