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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.
The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth, the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (also published as 1984) is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale by English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which they can be manipulated.
The story takes place in an imagined future in the year 1984, when much of the world is in perpetual war. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, has become a province of the totalitarian superstate Oceania, which is led by Big Brother, a dictatorial leader supported by an intense cult of personality manufactured by the Party's Thought Police. Through the Ministry of Truth, the Party engages in omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and constant propaganda to persecute individuality and independent thinking.
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- Publisher : Global Publishers (18 May 2023)
- Language : English
- File size : 882 KB
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- Print length : 326 pages
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- Customer reviews: 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 120,842 ratings
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Thanks Boz.
If alive today, Orwell (pen name, of course) would not believe just how bad things have become in the West. Far worse than his worst nightmares. In the novel, the anti-hero Winston is legitimately arrested for committing to the worst kinds of t-rist behaviour against 'innocents' in front of a state witness (whom he mistakenly believes is against the regime). This is no simple story, and too few who read it properly understand the true depth of the narrative.
In the movie 'Brazil', an unofficial retelling, the Winston character is made fully innocent, and the subject of a 'computer' mistake- a dreadful narrative change that proves how supposedly 'clever' people miss the point.
Unfortunately elements of it exist today.
Big Brother is always watching.
Room 101 seems to be attacked on social media!
• Thought crime (literal policing of social media and private WhatsApp groups)
• Constantly being watched by Big Brother (CCTV, smart speakers, online data profiling)
1984 is more relevant today than it's ever been, yet people are blind to its lessons. (edited)
It's one of the few that will always have a special place for me.
Great book and all kids should have a copy.