"The whole literature will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron... Orthodoxy is unconsciousness" (53).
George Orwell includes the references of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Byron in his novel to emphasize the realization that their lives are even being altered in the history books. Everything that everyone once knew is changed so that the higher power is never wrong. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Byron were each positive, or rather, strong minded individuals who made a difference in their worlds, but they must be discredited slightly so that people do not get the idea that they are stronger than they give themselves credit for. Altering facts for the sake of power and manipulation is what is displayed within the pages of 1984.
"Geofrey Chaucer." The Literature Network. 20 April 2010. 2010.
http://www.online-literature.com/chaucer/
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