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Classic dystopian science fiction, written in 1948 and imagining a totalitarian society where Big Brother watches your every move and the ruling party controls not only all information, but each individual’s thoughts.
The thing that I find most frightening about this world that Orwell created is how very plausible it is. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Big Brother is Watching. I couldn’t help but think of current events � torture, “Newspeak,� wars, video came ...more
Classic dystopian science fiction, written in 1948 and imagining a totalitarian society where Big Brother watches your every move and the ruling party controls not only all information, but each individual’s thoughts.
The thing that I find most frightening about this world that Orwell created is how very plausible it is. War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Big Brother is Watching. I couldn’t help but think of current events � torture, “Newspeak,� wars, video came ...more
Written in 1949, 1984 is George Orwell's horrifying vision of what the world was becoming. Following the Great Wars of the 1950s, the world has been divided into thirds; Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, with each controlled by an ideology that they teach to be completely different, but in reality is identical to each of the others, a sort of totalitarian socialist state, where independent thought or action is not only disallowed but punishable at the highest level. 1984 is set in London, now loca
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This book pierced my heart, my brain, my soul...I am unable to describe my feelings at the moment. After all, "1984" is not that fictional as one might imagine.. Thank you George Orwell. Thank you, dear Whistleblowers. We all owe you, even if some of us don't realize that.
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I never thought of myself as a conspiracy believer, then I read 1984. Everyone who has the ability to read should read this book, if for nothing else, because of how it has influenced our everyday vernacular After all "big brother is watching"
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Great dystopian novel that gets ruined because too many people HAVE to read it.
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