1984: A NovelProjects life under perfected state controls. It presages with no uncertainty the horrors and sterility, the policing of every thought, action and word, the extinction of truth and history, the condensation of speech and writing, the utter subjection of every member of the Party. The story concerns itself with Winston, a worker in the Records Department, who is tormented by tenuous memories, who is unable to identify himself wholly with Big Brother and The Party. It follows his love for Julia, who also outwardly conforms, inwardly rebels, his hopefulness in joining the Brotherhood, a secret organization reported to be sabotaging The Party, his faith in O'Brien, as a fellow disbeliever, his trust in the proles (the cockney element not under the organization) as the basis for an overall uprising. But The Party is omniscient, and it is O'Brien who puts him through the torture to cleanse him of all traitorous opinions, a terrible, terrifying torture whose climax, keyed to Winston's most secret nightmare, forces him to betray even Julia. He emerges, broken, beaten, a drivelling member of The Party. Composed, logically derived, this grim forecasting blueprints the means and methods of mass control, the techniques of maintaining power, the fundamentals of political duplicity, and offers as arousing a picture as the author's previous Animal Farm. Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration. |
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Page 36
... possible unconscious , he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made , and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames . What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes ...
... possible unconscious , he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made , and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames . What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes ...
Page 51
... possible to fill a pipe up to the top . Winston was smoking a Victory Cigarette which he held carefully horizontal . The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left . For the moment he had shut his ears ...
... possible to fill a pipe up to the top . Winston was smoking a Victory Cigarette which he held carefully horizontal . The new ration did not start till tomorrow and he had only four cigarettes left . For the moment he had shut his ears ...
Page 254
... possible to utter heresies of a very crude kind , a species of blasphemy . It would have been possible , for example , to say Big Brother is ungood . But this statement , which to an orthodox ear merely conveyed a self - evident ...
... possible to utter heresies of a very crude kind , a species of blasphemy . It would have been possible , for example , to say Big Brother is ungood . But this statement , which to an orthodox ear merely conveyed a self - evident ...
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