![]() The state is composed of "the Americas, the Atlantic Islands, including the British Isles, Australasia and the southern portion of Africa". The text, however, does not indicate how the Party obtained the power it possesses or when it did so. It is stated that Oceania formed after the United States merged with the British Empire. ![]() Oceania was founded following an anti-capitalist revolution, which, while intended to be the ultimate liberation of its proletariat (proles), soon ignored them. Orwell intended Goldstein's book to parody Trotsky's (on whom Goldstein is based) The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and Where is it Going?, published in 1937. The book is a literary device Orwell uses to connect the past and present of 1984. The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart easily, as though the book had passed through many hands." The print also looked slightly irregular. The protagonist of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Winston Smith, describes it as "a heavy black volume, amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. ![]() What is known of the society, politics and economics of Oceania, and its rivals, comes from the in-universe book, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism by Emmanuel Goldstein. ![]() George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, whose wartime BBC career influenced the creation of Oceania ![]()
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