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unusual facts about Nineteen Eighty Four



From the Age of Doublethink

The album title and many of the songs' lyrics feature references to the George Orwell book Nineteen Eighty Four.

Planned economy

The World State in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Airstrip One in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four are both fictional examples of command economies, albeit with diametrically opposed aims: The former is a consumer economy designed to engender productivity while the latter is a shortage economy designed as an agent of totalitarian social control.

Victory Square

Victory Square - the name given to Trafalgar Square in London by the totalitarian regime depicted in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty Four"


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Emmanuel Goldstein

In the 1995 film Hackers, Matthew Lillard plays a character named Emmanuel Goldstein, who makes a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four with the line: "'1984'? Yeah, right. That's a typo."

Enrique Segoviano

Nineteen eighty-four would be the first of two non-consecutive years in which Segoviano would produce and direct three different television series: Hola Mexico!, a precursor to Hoy notable for introducing actress Edith González, and the telenovelas Te amo and Si, mi amor.

Prole

Proles, the proletariat class in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four