JAMB Literature in English 2008 Question 12

Question 12

Other Set Texts: Non-African Prose

In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Orwell attempts to

  1. A.satirize the artificiality of a machine controlled society
  2. B.eulogize the beauty of the socialist system
  3. C.condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems
  4. D.laud the boundless possibilities of the human intellect.
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Answer: C (condemn the disgusting hypocrisy of all communist systems)

Explanation

The Party claims to serve the people while it lies, spies and tortures; Orwell is attacking the hypocrisy of totalitarian communist rule.