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How does the fact that the society in 1984 cannot recreate history affect the possibility for a rebellion?
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Community / Jr. College
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In this book, no one in the society at large can really know what has happened in the past. This is because the Party controls what people know and the Party (as we see in Winston's work)...
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High School - 12th Grade
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Big Brother controls history in 1984. Party leaders choose what to edit on a daily basis for their purposes. Even the trace of human's existence is wiped out as are any extra scraps of paper....
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