Saturday, April 19, 2014

Nineteen Eighty-Four the Novel By George Orwell

File:1984first.jpg The book is about A government that controls everything you must say or do in your life.


I heard about the book many times of being one of the most challenged books of all time, it has been banned in many parts of Russia, the USA in the it's early years and before the book was written by George Orwell A photo showing head and shoulders of a middle-aged man with a slim moustache. He was born in what was then British rule India. His category of class is kind of weird to me. Anyway, when he was little his mother took him and his sister to England were he got his education and always wanted to be a writer who worked in several magazines during his early years and beyond until somewhere along the line of the Spanish civil war, were he still did write for a magazine or two, but while they years went by he publish a few books that were I don't know what they are since I never looked them up or read them, but I bet they were different but anyway after the civil war up to WWII was that he started writing books about how the dangers of Totalitarianism were a new thing from early 20th century and most people outside of politics had no clue what it meant, and what Totalitarianism stands for in short is a political system in which the state holds total authority over the society and seeks to control all aspects of public and private life wherever possible.




Orwell first major work that showed what is called ANIMAL FARM, which has many historical plot points of Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky,  Nicholas II and Vladimir Lenin as it's about the harsh treatment of the working clash on the farm ruled by Pigs and many of the scenes are based on the historical plot points of the political leader you see above. Animal Farm was difficult to get published from the start as at the time it was during the alliance between the US, UK, and the Soviet Union in WWII and many publisher fear that it would upset the alliance and because of that many publisher refused to print it one almost did, but for some reason an Russian spy managed to get them not to do it. it wasn't until around the end of WWII that it was finally published. After that he started writing 1984, and he wanted the world to see first hand of what life would be like if England was under a Totalitarian government party.


when I read the book it's sad that you can't make any expressions and the government constantly lies or simply recreates the history of what has happened.


The character Winston always seems confused of his earlier life and is trying hard to remember what it was, and the book shows that the government is trying to make sure that everyone in the lower class ends don't have anytime to think there own thoughts, and I found it crazy that they make you attended any prep rally that is nearby and whatever the TV is talking to you, You have to listen and do what it says and one thing The party does make everyone watch called the two minute hate so with all this stuff going on around him Winston could barely get his memory in line to where he barely knows what happened to father or his old wife.


It's dedication of thought is mostly about wondering of what is what and did it really happen, I guess I'll never know kind of thing for people who were born in the 50's and 60's as the party was already in full swing. Nothing is good to begin as news is changing all the time by erasing the past and constantly rewriting it, were it might say it there's a huge supply of chocolate and the next they say that it wasn't in a way that no one can noticed even they try hard.


Everyone who you may know one day and be different in less then a minute with a new look and everyone causing you to think he's real and not real too.


Reading the book blew my mind and with that shows you inside of what if. It's point is that you are nothing, you are this, the government can do this, or I can do this because I have the power.


In the book it talks about words that are becoming out dated and taken off the list and some of the basic of English words are pronounced badly or oddly because that how people are suppose to say them.


There more to the book then what I have written here so go to your local library and start reading 1984 cause it will really change your life.





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