1984
1984, George Orwell, New American Library a division of Penguin Putnam inc., New York, New York, Copyright 1949, 272 pages, fiction. “Big Brother,” a symbol that represents the 1984 government in Oceania (what used to be England) has absolute power over its citizens, and even monitors thoughts. Winston Smith hates this and attempts rebellion with his love, Julia, and the Brotherhood, but is simply tricked by O’Brien, an inner party member. The book is divided into chapters, which tie into each other by continuing on previous chapters and advancing the plot. These chapters make up three books (book one, book two, and book three). Each book is a different section of the plot. There were not any pictures, but there were large bolded statements like “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,” which were used in order to show the importance of these statements and the fear that they bring. I do not think that there should have been any pictures because it is easy to visualize with all of the description. The author wrote this book as a projection of what was going to occur in the future. He wanted to satire what was going on at the time with wars and to denounce communism as well. It is worthwhile because it would be fun to predict the fu
ture and make up obscene fantasies about what you think it could be like based on how things are at the present. The author is trying to make the points that sometimes governments take it too far with their power over its citizens, and also at the same time how easily people can be persuaded to believe many things. For instance, the inner party constantly changes Oceania’s state of peace by announcing “Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia and allies with Eastasia," while the next week they may announce the opposite, and the people believe whatever they say because of the concept the inner party created, called doublethink. I thought that this was funny that people could be brainwashed in such a way, and they also had no recollection of the past, before “Big Brother.” Orwell uses a third person narrative voice to tell what is going on, and occasionally writes from Winston’s point of view through his journal that he keeps. The use of changing narratives is helpful to see Winston’s thoughts and feelings. Orwell also uses large bolded statements to get a point across, for instance “WAR IS PEACE,” is one of the ridiculous statements that the inner party wants the citizens to believe. The author also uses flashbacks to recall what the world used to be like for Winston. Although blurred images, Winston remembers chocolate from the past and how his mother used to give it to him. The author got his points across to me extremely well. I feel this way because he did a great job of creating these fantastic ideas like the “Thought Police,” and he really made this believable by his descriptio
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