He draws an empty and over-politicized world which leaves you thinking for a long time after you have finished the book.Īlthough Orwell wrote the book in 1948 his view is timeless and could easily be applied to the 21th century, this is the reason why this book is still read so much and why Time magazine included Nineteen Eighty-Four in its list of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. He sketches a dystopia, a horrible or degraded society with an irreversible oblivion and the exact opposite of an utopia. George Orwell has often shown opposition to totalitarianism and commitment to democratic socialism in his books for example Animal Farm and of course 1984, in this book it is clear that this opposition is against the Soviet-Union. A certain pessimistic moral seemed to take over the image due to the Cold War, when a sustained state of political and military tension between several great powers arose. A very intriguing story showing what could have happened after WO II, if the communists had taken over and divided the world among themselves after the global war. Imagine a place where your thoughts and actions are monitored and where you’re constantly controlled, this is what Eric Arthur Blair -known by his pen name George Orwell- describes in this book.
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