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Nineteen Eighty-Four
In Our Time
John, John, O'Brien and the Brotherhood
The Brotherhood is the main thought that there might be a political opposition in the book. Winston and Julia find out about it through this figure of O'Brien, who's the member of the inner party. He invites them to his flat and he tells them that there is a Brotherhood secret. And they seem just to do random terrorist outrages,. They say, are you prepared to throw sulfuric acid in a child's face? But what we learn from O'Brien in the final section of the book is that he helped write it, but the inner party wrote this opposition manual. So all in a way cancels politics in the book... It's a very political book. The possibility
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