Book of the Week
1984
by George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written
1984) is a 1949
dystopian novel by
George Orwell about the
totalitarian regime of the Party. The novel depicts an
oligarchical collectivist society where life in the
Oceanian province of
Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government
surveillance, and incessant public
mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the masses, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the
Ministry of Truth (Minitrue), protagonist
Winston Smith is a
civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's
propaganda by
revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meagre existence disillusions him to the point of seeking
rebellion against
Big Brother, eventually leading to his arrest, torture, and conversion.
As literary
political fiction,
1984 is a classic novel of the
social science fiction sub-genre, thus, since its publication in 1949, the terms and concepts of
Big Brother,
doublethink,
thoughtcrime,
Newspeak,
Memory hole, et cetera, became contemporary
vernacular, including the adjective
Orwellian, denoting George Orwell's writings and
totalitarianism as exposited in
Nineteen Eighty-Four and
Animal Farm (1945).
[1] Other classifications for the novel may include science fiction and satire.
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