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1984
Book Details-
Author: George Orwell
ASIN: 9352230760
Publisher: Maple Pree
Publication date: September 1, 2013
ISBN-13: 978-9352230761
Format: Paperback
Paperback: 320 pages
Language: English
About the Book-
Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...
Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
1984 revolves around the concept of omnipresent government surveillance, where Big Brother controls the society in the super-state, Oceania. Every aspect of life is closely monitored, every trace of privacy is rubbed off and the slightest hint of personal freedom or rebellion is ruthlessly quashed by the ‘thought police’.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes, follows his instincts, and lands in the most dreadful Room 101 where resides every man's ultimate horror. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching. The novel takes the readers to a world where “the object of torture is torture. The object of power is power”.
Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental super state that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell’s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government. As much as it is an entertaining read, nineteen-eighty-four is also a brilliant, and more importantly, a timeless satirical attack on the social and political structures of the world.
A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
Published in the summer of 1949, George Orwell’s nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
1984 revolves around the concept of omnipresent government surveillance, where Big Brother controls the society in the super-state, Oceania. Every aspect of life is closely monitored, every trace of privacy is rubbed off and the slightest hint of personal freedom or rebellion is ruthlessly quashed by the ‘thought police’.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes, follows his instincts, and lands in the most dreadful Room 101 where resides every man's ultimate horror. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching. The novel takes the readers to a world where “the object of torture is torture. The object of power is power”.
Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental super state that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell’s masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government. As much as it is an entertaining read, nineteen-eighty-four is also a brilliant, and more importantly, a timeless satirical attack on the social and political structures of the world.
A startling and haunting novel, 1984 creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.
