1984 Book Reveiw
George Orwell’s 1984 was a good book. It started off introducing the character Winston who is a middle class historian for the government of Oceania. He is part of what their leader Big Brother calls the Outer Party which means he is higher than the proletariats (proles) but the lower than the Inner Party. He works for the Ministry of Truth (Minitrue) and fears the Ministry of Love (Miniluv) where Big Brother is and his enemies are taken. He monitored through his head from the young spies, telescreens (which run and monitor all the time), and the thought police. Winston bought a diary, knowing it was illegal at a prole book shop. He recorded his rebellious and sexual (yes it was outlawed) thoughts hiding from the telescreen in it. To be able to think freely was good for him he thought. At his work had to ready the people for Hate Week where daily the Two Minutes Hate happens and pictures of the party’s enemy Emmanuel Goldstein popped up and made people kind of angry. Winston seems infatuated with two people a dark haired girl and Inner Party member named O’Brien. He writes in his diary about both of them many times. He Winston suspects the girl of being a spy/thought police (on him) and
Winston then received a note from the girl saying “I Love You”. All suspicions of her dropped and they met during Two Minutes Hate then went into the woods and made love. Her name was Julia. Winston found her rebellious nature against the Party’s sexual attitudes very arousing. They rented a room above his favorite prole bookstore (so it had no telescreen) and met there. It was not long before O’Brien summoned his presence for a meeting. He invited him into The Brotherhood against Big Brother. He was gave Goldstein’s manifesto and went to the shop to read it. It turns out he was tricked and the shopkeeper, who was thought police, turned in Julia and Winston to the Ministry of Love. There they met O’Brien who lied to them and they faced their worst fears in room 101 and denied each other and learned to accept Big Brother happily and to shun each other. The work was written very well. There were plenty of short but memorable quotes that were real deep. One example is the slogans of the party: “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength”. War is peace because the people need to unite in peace against a common enemy. Freedom is slavery because the free, independent man is doomed to fail and slavery is freedom because the man subjected to collective will is free from desires and dangers. Ignorance is strength because the inability to recognize contradiction cements the authoritarian regime. The only thing I found noteworthy was that the in beginning
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Critique Overall,
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Love Miniluv,
Brotherhood Winston,
Julia Winston,
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