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(1) Book report on Orwell’s “1984”

The novel was written in 1948 and presents the imaginary future of 1984 where a totalitarian state controls every aspect of life, even people's thoughts or the past. The state is called Oceania and consists today’s England, North America, South America and Australia. Oceania is ruled by a group known as the party; its leader and dictator is Big Brother. Altering the past has a very important function in Orwell’s 1984, though everybody believes what Big Brother, the omnipresent but never seen dictator of Oceania says. This is how Big Brother’s dictatorship works, people of the outer party, who work at the ministry of Truth, like Winston Smith does, have to alter records of the past, to make predicts of the party become true. To let this system work, they have to be sure to control every single mind (partly done by telescreens), to make people believe, that there has never been a different past before, so another slogan of the party than “Big Brother is watching you” is “Who controls the past, controls the future”.

Winston Smith, the central character, is a thirty-nine-year-old man living in London, or how it is c

After the Sons of Jacob have overthrown the United States and renamed them into “Republic” of Gilead, Offred was sent to a re-education centre, which is known as the RED-centre, where all the handmaids are brainwashed into submission to their new role by a group of women called “aunts”. A Handmaid's role is to bear children for elite, childless families of the fundamentalists’ republic. Handmaids have to be pure, which means they cannot read or write or associate with other men or have desires of any kind. Their names are taken from them and they are tattooed with a number like breeding pigs. They are taught to believe that the previous failures of society have been their fault and that men are blameless.

Winston is fascinated by "proles," the lowest class in the social hierarchy of Oceania. They are the only class, which is allowed to live pretty much as they like without heavy police surveillance. He befriends Mr. Charrington, the prole owner of a junk-shop, who shares his interests in the real past and life before the rule of Big Brother.

Some topics in this essay:
Montag’s Montag, Adolf Hitler, Jonas Jonas, Winston Smith, Guy Montag, Offred Ofglen, Books/Censorship Censorship, Handmaid’s Tale”, Captain Beatty, Sigmund Freud, “the giver”, “fahrenheit 451”, “the handmaid’s tale”, book report, plot summary, “the handmaid’s, handmaid’s tale”, people believe, dictatorship people, winston julia, serious topics, pills stop sexuality, people “the giver”,