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| "Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984), by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, is an English dystopian novel about life in a dictatorship as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth, and his degradation when he runs afoul of the totalitarian government of Oceania, the state in which he lives in the year 1984. Orwell's influences In the essay Why I Write, Orwell explains that all the serious work he wrote since the Spanish Civil War in 1936 was "written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" Therefore, Nineteen Eighty-Four is an anti-totalitarian cautionary tale about the betrayal of a revolution by its defenders. He already had stated distrust of totalitarianism and betrayed revolutions in Homage to Catalonia and Animal Farm. Coming Up For Air, at points, celebrates the personal and political freedoms lost in Nineteen Eighty-Four. The novel's title, its terms and its language (Newspeak, and its author's surname are bywords for personal privacy lost to national state security. The adjective "Orwellian" denotes totalitarian action and organization the phrase Big Brother is Watching You connotes pervasive, invasive surveillance. The following quotation has become famous War is Peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is Strength Although the novel has been banned or challenged in some countries, it, along with Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, and Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is among literature's most famous dystopias. In 2005, Time magazine listed it among the best one hundred English-language novels published since 1923. Nineteen Eighty-Four introduces Oceania, one of the world's three intercontinental totalitarian superstates. The story occurs in London, the "chief city of Airstrip One, itself a province of Oceania that "had been called England or Britain. Posters of "Big Brother, the Party leader, with the caption BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, dominate the city landscapes two-way television (the telescreen) dominates the private and public spaces of the populace. 216 Oceania's people are in three classes — (i) the Inner Party, (ii) the Outer Party, and (iii) the "Proles. This government, the Party, controls them via the Ministry of Truth (MiniTru), where Winston Smith, the protagonist, works he is a member of the Outer Party. His job in MiniTru is the continual rewriting and altering of history so that the government is always right and correct destroying evidence, amending newspaper articles, deleting the existence of people identified as "unpersons. The story begins on April 4, 1984: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen" The date is questionable, because it is what Winston Smith perceives. In the story's course, he concludes it as irrelevant, because the State can arbitrarily alter it the year 1984 and its world are transmutable. The novel does not render the world's full history to 1984. Indeed, because the book Winston reads is given to him by a Party member, it is possible that the book itself is meant to be a deception, and the history of the world of 1984 is somewhat different. Winston's recollections, and what he reads in The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, by Emmanuel Goldstein, reveal that after the Second World War, the United Kingdom fell to civil war, becoming part of Oceania. Simultaneously, the Soviet Union encompassed mainland Europe, forming Eurasia the third superstate, Eastasia, comprises the east Asian countries around China and Japan. There was anatomic war, fought mainly in Europe, western Russia, and North America. It is unclear what occurred first the civil war wherein the Party assumed power or the United States' annexation of the British Empire or the war during which Colchester was bombed. During the Second World War, George Orwell repeatedly said that British democracy, as it existed before 1939, would not survive the war the question being Would it end via Fascist coup d'état (from above) or via Socialist revolution (from below During the war, Orwell admitted events proved him wrong "What really matters is that I fell into the trap of assuming that 'the war and the revolution are inseparable' " -- Reference Wikipedia.org back to 95) Download 2 Mb. Share with your friends:
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