In 1986, Suzanna Hamilton starred, opposite Peter MacNicol, as a Cockney bride living with a 1940s Pennsylvania coal-mining family in the well-received television drama, Johnny Bull, which featured supporting performances from Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst, and Kathy Bates. She also appeared as Emily Barkstone in the second of the three BBC miniseries based on Barbara Taylor Bradford's popular "Emma Harte" novels about the fortunes of a retail empire and the machinations of the business élite across three generations: Hold the D ...

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Suzanna Hamilton, Suzanna Hamilton - Early Career, Suzanna Hamilton - Nineteen Eighty-four 1984, Suzanna Hamilton - Film appearances in the late 1980s, Suzanna Hamilton - Television appearances and the 1990s, Suzanna Hamilton - Theater Career, Suzanna Hamilton - Current Activities, Suzanna Hamilton - Trivia, Suzanna Hamilton - Personal Quotes, Suzanna Hamilton - Film and Television Credits

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Brave New World - Of the Fordian society. Arch-Community Songster, a semi-religious figure based in Canterbury Assistant Director of Predestination Darwin Bonaparte, a paparazzo Fanny Crowne, friend of Lenina Lenina Crowne, Beta-Plus Embryo Worker Thomas, the Director of the Central London Hatchery Henry Foster, administrator at the Hatchery and Lenina's current partner Benito Hoover, an Alpha-Plus friend of Lenina, disliked by Bernard ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Lenina and Bernard, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage, Brave New World - Resolution, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of the Fordian society, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - The World State, Brave New World - History, Brave New World - Political geography, Brave New World - Population, Brave New World - Technology, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Satire of 1930s society, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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As a method of underscoring similarities to his fictional dystopia and his own contemporary culture, Huxley incorporates several sly, satirical references to targets such as the Church of England (which he refers to as a "community sing"), the BBC or British tabloid The Daily Mirror ("The Delta Mirror"), "Christian Science Monitor" ("The Fordian Science Monitor"), Henry Ford, George Bernard Shaw and Sigmund Freud. Brave New World's London propaganda centre is at Fleet Street, the traditional home of the British press, and the pseudo-religious Arch-Community Songster is based at Canterbury, where t ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Lenina and Bernard, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage, Brave New World - Resolution, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of the Fordian society, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - The World State, Brave New World - History, Brave New World - Political geography, Brave New World - Population, Brave New World - Technology, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Satire of 1930s society, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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The novel begins in London, in the "year of Our Ford 632" (AD 2540 in the Gregorian Calendar). The entire planet is united as The World State, under a peaceful world government which has eliminated war, poverty, crime, and unhappiness by creating a homogenous high-tech society across Earth, based on the industrial principles of Henry Ford. Fordism forms the bedrock of the new society, gaining a semi-religious status and forming the backbone of philosophy. Society is rigidly divided into five classes, and all members of society are trained to ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Lenina and Bernard, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage, Brave New World - Resolution, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of the Fordian society, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - The World State, Brave New World - History, Brave New World - Political geography, Brave New World - Population, Brave New World - Technology, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Satire of 1930s society, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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Bentham derived the idea from the plan of a Military School in Paris designed for easy supervision, itself conceived by his brother Samuel who arrived at it as a solution to the complexities involved in the handling of large numbers of men. Bentham supplemented this principle with the idea of contract management, that is, an administration by contract as opposed to trust, where the director would have a pecuniary interest in lowering the average rate of mortality. The Panopticon was intended to be cheaper than that of the prisons of h ...

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Panopticon, Panopticon - Conceptual history, Panopticon - Panopticon prisons

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Brave New World - Of The World State. Listed in order of appearance- Thomas, the Director of the Central London Hatchery and father of John the Savage. Henry Foster, administrator at the Hatchery and Lenina's current partner. Lenina Crowne, Beta-Plus Embryo Worker, loved by John the Savage. Mustapha Mond, World Controller for Western Europe. Assistant Director of Predestination. Bernard Marx, Alpha-Plus psychologist. Fanny Crowne, Beta Embryo Work ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of The World State, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation in New Mexico, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Introduction to The World State & Lenina and Bernard Chapters 1-6, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage Chapters 7-9, Brave New World - The Savage Visits The World State Chapters 10-15, Brave New World - Resolution Chapters 16-18, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Controversy, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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The World State is built around the principles of Henry Ford, who has become a Messianic figure worshipped by society. The word lord has been replaced with ford. The assembly line process is present in many aspects of life, and the symbol "T" has replaced the Christian cross, a reflection of the Model T car developed by Henry Ford. His famous phrase "History is bunk" has become the fundamental approach to studying the past – as a result, no-one knows of past societies. Citizens have no awareness of history except for a vague ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of The World State, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation in New Mexico, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Introduction to The World State & Lenina and Bernard Chapters 1-6, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage Chapters 7-9, Brave New World - The Savage Visits The World State Chapters 10-15, Brave New World - Resolution Chapters 16-18, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Controversy, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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As a result of the digital revolution, many aspects of life are now captured and stored in digital form. Concern has been expressed that governments may use this information to conduct mass surveillance on their populations. Mass surveillance - European Union. (This subsection documents a current event. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses.) The legislative body of the European Union has passed the Data Retention Directive on 2005-12-15. It requires telecommunication operators to i ...

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Mass surveillance, Mass surveillance - Voluntary mass surveillance, Mass surveillance - Involuntary mass surveillance, Mass surveillance - European Union, Mass surveillance - United Kingdom, Mass surveillance - United States, Mass surveillance - East Germany, Mass surveillance - Literature and movies critical of mass surveillance, Mass surveillance - Reference

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It has been discussed by several literary critics, and backed up by Aldous Huxley, that the book, while satirizing the development of society, also provides a suicidal outlook on the future. In the novel, the reservation (which is associated with the past, and all the squalor and disease in it) and the futuristic society (which, aptly enough, represents the future) come together in the protagonist, John. In a metaphorical sense, this coming together could represent the present, as John is neither fully part of the past or future societies. A ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of The World State, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation in New Mexico, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Introduction to The World State & Lenina and Bernard Chapters 1-6, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage Chapters 7-9, Brave New World - The Savage Visits The World State Chapters 10-15, Brave New World - Resolution Chapters 16-18, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Controversy, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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The cartouches of the heretical pharaoh Akhnaton were mutilated by his successors. Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus to become famous. The Ephesus leaders decided that his name should never be repeated again. Marino Faliero, fifty-fifth Doge of Venice, was condemned to damnatio memoriae after a failed coup d'état. A famous example of the concept of damnatio memoriae in modern usage is the "vaporization" of "unpersons" in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four ("He did n ...

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Damnatio memoriae, Damnatio memoriae - Similar practices in other societies, Damnatio memoriae - Related article

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Brave New World - History. The citizens of The World State use a calendar which takes the year 1908 as its starting point, as this was the first year in which the Model T automobile was produced by the Ford Company. According to the novel, the "Nine Years' War" broke out in Year 141, or the year 2049 of our calendar. Very little is revealed of The Nine Years' War, but it can be inferred that the conflict broke out in Europe, affected most of the planet, and caused massive physical damage. It is repeatedly stated ...

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Brave New World, Brave New World - Synopsis, Brave New World - Fordism and society, Brave New World - Lenina and Bernard, Brave New World - The Reservation and the Savage, Brave New World - Resolution, Brave New World - Characters, Brave New World - Of the Fordian society, Brave New World - Of the Malpais Savage Reservation, Brave New World - Historical characters, Brave New World - The World State, Brave New World - History, Brave New World - Political geography, Brave New World - Population, Brave New World - Technology, Brave New World - Possible symbolism, Brave New World - Satire of 1930s society, Brave New World - Comparison with Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World - Quotes, Brave New World - Brave New World Revisited, Brave New World - Related media works, Brave New World - Publications

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Equilibrium contains many references to similar works of dystopian fiction, most notably George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 contains similar parallels. Equilibrium 2002 film - Setting. Equilibrium, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Brave New World all take place in the near future following a catastrophic war (The Third World War, the Second World War, and the fictional "Nine Years War" respectivel ...

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Equilibrium 2002 film, Equilibrium 2002 film - Synopsis, Equilibrium 2002 film - Plot, Equilibrium 2002 film - Gun Kata, Equilibrium 2002 film - Literary references, Equilibrium 2002 film - Setting, Equilibrium 2002 film - Drug use, Equilibrium 2002 film - Living standard, Equilibrium 2002 film - Surveillance, Equilibrium 2002 film - Class system, Equilibrium 2002 film - Father, Equilibrium 2002 film - Trivia, Equilibrium 2002 film - Cast

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The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) was the secret police of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four whose job it was to uncover and punish thoughtcrime. The Thought Police used psychology and omnipresent surveillance to find and eliminate members of society who were capable of the mere thought of challenging ruling authority. Orwell's Thought Police and their pursuit of thoughtcrime was based on the methods used by the totalitarian states and competing ideologies of the 20th century. It also had much t ...

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Thoughtcrime, Thoughtcrime - Thought Police, Thoughtcrime - Soviet-era abuses, Thoughtcrime - Modern Accusations, Thoughtcrime - Technology and thoughtcrime, Thoughtcrime - In the Media

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It has been argued that the songs can be linked to characters and events in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (see External links). The band themselves maintain that although the songs have a common theme centred around modern living, they do not deem OK Computer to be a concept album. Yet since each song appears to be from the viewpoint of a different person in the modern world, there ...

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OK Computer, OK Computer - Recording history and trivia, OK Computer - References to other works, OK Computer - Track listing, OK Computer - Clips

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The CCC was founded in Berlin on September 12, 1981 by Wau Holland and others in anticipation of the fact that information technology would come up strong and influence the way people live and communicate on this planet. The fact that Germans respond much more sensitively to Nineteen Eighty-Four-like scenarios (as they already had two of them – the Nazi era and the Stasi-system of the GDR) might have played a role getting together. Today, Germans in general tend to be much more critical of all kinds of public ...

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Chaos Computer Club, Chaos Computer Club - History, Chaos Computer Club - Events, Chaos Computer Club - Publications, Chaos Computer Club - Members

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Just as technology played a significant part in the detection of thoughtcrime in Nineteen Eighty-Four — with the ubiquitous telescreens which could inform, disinform and monitor the population — a number of technologies have been developed to try to detect thought and emotional states. Networks of CCTV cameras are being connected to image-recognition software that (although currently ineffective) intends to detect possible wrongdoers by looking for signs of anxiety. Other technologies range from lie detectors, the penile pl ...

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Thoughtcrime, Thoughtcrime - Thought Police, Thoughtcrime - Soviet-era abuses, Thoughtcrime - Modern Accusations, Thoughtcrime - Technology and thoughtcrime, Thoughtcrime - In the Media

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List of fictional media - Slogans. "A lawn savant, who'll lop a tree- no one beats Marquis de Sod!"- the jingle (to La Marseillaise) of the BDSM lawn service Marquis de Sod, from Thomas Pynchon's Vineland "A Spare Hand When Needed" - We R Igors, Discworld "Big Brother is watching you" - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four "Catch Here!" (parody of NBC's 1983-1984 promotional campaign "Be There") - promotional campaign for NewsChannel 7, Lizzie McGuireSee also:

List of fictional media, List of fictional media - Advertising, List of fictional media - Slogans, List of fictional media - Internet, List of fictional media - Movies, List of fictional media - Publications, List of fictional media - Newspapers, List of fictional media - Comic books, List of fictional media - Comic strips, List of fictional media - Magazines, List of fictional media - Radio Shows, List of fictional media - Television Shows, List of fictional media - Theatre

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Nigel Kneale went on to become one of the most highly regarded scriptwriters in the history of British television following the success of The Quatermass Experiment. As well as the various Quatermass spin-offs and sequels, he penned such acclaimed productions as Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) and The Stone Tape (1972). Kneale also appeared on-screen, in a sense, in the final episode of the serial: he 'played' the monster seen in Westminster Abbey at the climax, his hands operating the 'creature' stuck through a photo ...

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The Quatermass Experiment, The Quatermass Experiment - Background, The Quatermass Experiment - Plot, The Quatermass Experiment - Cast and crew, The Quatermass Experiment - Reaction, The Quatermass Experiment - Film sequels and DVD, The Quatermass Experiment - 2005 remake

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The greater part of the book consists of a description of Erewhon. The nature of this nation is clearly intended to be ambiguous. At first glance Erewhon appears to be a utopia, yet it soon becomes clear that this is far from the case. Yet for all the failings of Erewhon it is also clearly not a dystopia (or anti-utopia), an undesirable society such as that depicted by George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. As a satirical utopia Erewhon has sometimes been compared to Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, the image of Utopia in this latter case also bearing strong parallels with the self-view ...

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Erewhon, Erewhon - Content, Erewhon - The Book of Machines, Erewhon - The rest of the book, Erewhon - Reception

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Anthem bears notable similarities to Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We, which also influenced Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. Like Zamyatin, but unlike Huxley or Orwell, Rand had some experience of the Soviet system. We was published before Anthem, in 1920, and Rand would have been able to read it before it was translated into English. In fact she left Russia six years after We was published (Rand boasted that she had beaten both Orwell and Huxley int ...

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Anthem novella, Anthem novella - Plot synopsis, Anthem novella - Anthem and We, Anthem novella - Copyright status, Anthem novella - 2112

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Opponents of CCTV point out the loss of privacy of the people under surveillance, and the negative impact of surveillance on civil liberties. Furthermore, they argue that CCTV displaces crime, rather than reducing it. Critics often dub CCTV as "Big Brother surveillance", a reference to George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, which featured a two-way telescreen in every home through which The Party would monitor the populace. A more realistic depiction of CCTV is in the V for Vendetta ...

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Closed-circuit television, Closed-circuit television - Crime prevention and detection, Closed-circuit television - Security Photography, Closed-circuit television - Traffic monitoring, Closed-circuit television - Privacy, Closed-circuit television - Fears of technological developments

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Censorship is regarded among a majority of academics in the Western world as a typical feature of dictatorships and other authoritarian political systems. Democratic nations are represented, especially among Western government, academic and media commentators, to have somewhat less institutionalized censorship, and instead are represented as promoting the importance of freedom of speech. The former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics maintained a particularly extensive programs of state-imposed censorship. The main organ for official censors ...

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Censorship, Censorship - Terms, Censorship - Censorship Types, Censorship - Subject matter, Censorship - State secrets and unwanted attention, Censorship - School textbooks, Censorship - Implementation, Censorship - Prevention and bypassing, Censorship - Censorship around the world, Censorship - Censorship of Media, Censorship - Other types of censorship

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