George Orwell has created the most totalitarian society imaginable nightmare threatening our world fascinated by technology and efficiency.

Everything is: the end of the individual [no love, no family], personalization of power [Big Brother], the indoctrination of youth and also the monitoring, the brainwashing, the rewriting of the past The mind manipulation by the vocabulary … thousand ideas to create hell on Earth.

When I read this book, I got chills make this novel so chilling. I think what is most afraid of in this novel is that it is very realistic, and over our lives every day, as and as the pages turn, we realize ca account that looks more and more that could be our life in the near future, and what is most worrying is that actually moves to the gloomy future.

Through this book, Orwell has signed a realistic critical of society and power.

A very pessimistic book, a novel of anticipation, but a lot think about the world around us.

A terrific book because it shows what we could become tomorrow if we do not wake up on time and if we are not dramatic benefit of lessons from the past in dark times such as Nazism.

Winston Smith works in the Records Department, Ministry of Truth. He rewrote the numbers of papers already published to correct the mistakes of the Party or its leader, Big Brother. Because the Party is never wrong. Once the rewritten history, there is no trace of the error, because it never existed.

In 1984, the Department of Peace has been conducting for years a war without end at the end of the world. The Ministry of Love tortures and destroys opponents to the memory of their existence. The administration is developing the Newspeak, a language intended to reduce the area of thought by restricting more and more the number of words. Crash totalitarian slogans on every wall.

Winston does not like this world, he confided to his diary in secret. He seeks love. He will find it. But in 1984, not love does not exist.

In a society where freedom of having feelings is prohibited, Winston will have to make a terrible struggle against a system against itself.

SOME QUOTES FROM THE BOOK 

War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

Political language is designed to make it believable lies, murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity to what is only the wind.

Crime does not think of death. The crime of thinking is death. Now he had recognized as dead, it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

In a world where the number of hours would be short, where everyone has enough food, live in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, would own a car or even an airplane, the most obvious, and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. Became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be equally distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. If all, indeed, enjoyed the same way of leisure and security, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would learn and learn to think for herself, she would find time soon or later than the privileged minority had no reason to be, and the sweep. In summary, a hierarchical society was only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.

It was still night. The arrests were invariably at night. There was a sudden burst of alarm, the rough hand shaking his shoulder, the lights dazzled, the circle of hard faces round the bed. In the vast majority of cases, there was no trial, no reports of arrests. People disappear, simply, always at night. Their names were removed from  registers, all memory of their deeds were erased, their existence was denied and then forgotten. They were abolished, rendered to nothingness. Vaporized, as they said.

If all others accepted the lie by the Party imposed – if all reports told the same thing – the lie passed into history and became truth. “He who controls the past,” said the Party slogan, controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past “.

-Power is not a means, it is an end. It does not establish a dictatorship to safeguard a revolution. There is a revolution to establish a dictatorship. The persecution is to persecution. Torture aims to torture. The power is to power.

EXPLANATION OF WORK

1984 (original title: Nineteen Eighty-Four) is a famous novel by George Orwell, writing in 1948, describing a Britain after an atomic war East-West expected to have occurred in the 1950s, and which has established a totalitarian regime borrowed heavily from both Stalinism and certain elements of Nazism. Freedom of expression exists. All thoughts are carefully monitored, and huge posters enthroned in the streets, telling everyone that “Big Brother watching you” ( “Big Brother is watching you”).

The novel was originally called The Last Man in Europe, or even 1949, the year of publication, but Orwell saw himself refused his publisher.

Orwell’s correspondence indicates that his project was a warning against totalitarianism (Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism), particularly at a British left (which he belonged), and he suspected of complacency toward Stalin, at least for This was some intellectuals as Bernard Shaw and HG Wells.

Many elements are drawn from the reality of the late 1940s that inspired Orwell blatantly: the description of a decrepit London, with craters caused by “rocket bombs”, its queues before the shops Victorian houses in ruins, its privations of all sorts, strongly evokes the London of the immediate post-war and shortages (rationing tickets have been a reality until 1953) excluding the effects still visible German bombing ( the V1 and V2). The building would have inspired the “Ministry of Truth” would be that the information ministry in the Bloomsbury district, Senate House, now owned by the University of London.

Parable of modern despotism, philosophical tale about the worst the twentieth century, if the Orwellian totalitarianism operates CHF loans to Nazism and fascism, it is nonetheless, with its single party, the scheme meeting, the confusion of powers, plans productions triennial, its militarism patronage, parades and demonstrations “spontaneous”, its queues, its slogans, its re-education camps, her public confessions “in Moscow” and giant posters, clearly inspired by the Soviet system.

Alternatively, supposedly totalitarian degeneration of a certain “English Socialism (Ingsoc), we wanted to do sometimes see a vitriolic satire (even a trial for excessive) against Great Britain’s Labor Clement Attlee ( 1945) and his ambitious program of nationalization (steel, coal, railways, Bank of England, etc..) in a country ruined by war ref. required.

Man left with absolute sincerity, Orwell was a socialist “land” that was wary of a certain “left” (cruelly mocked in one of his first novels: And long live aspidistra!, Through the character ridiculous Ravelston) and its distance from the social and material reality of the working world. Orwell also hated the communists, let alone “salon”, and despised, for example, Jean-Paul Sartre. Material poverty remained for him the material poverty, the “Party” is in power or “capitalist.” There is no doubt, therefore, contrary to what is sometimes thought, on his very deep socialist convictions, or at least “social democrats”. Wary of a certain left, Orwell accepted also bad to be recovered by the “right”, which was primarily the result of the North American home of 1984.

Some obvious improbabilities of 1984, they also are a reflection of the concerns of Orwell in the novel, the United States are expected to also be part of Oceania (which actually includes the Anglo-Saxon – see map) . Orwell saw in the United States, just like the “modern” Chaplin, the quintessential modern world technomaniaque who is also a warning in 1984.

Furthermore, the thesis that Orwell describes the manifest through the traitor Emmanuel Goldstein (oligarchical collectivism) assumes that power can use the misery for political Goldstein attributed the shortages rampant in the “Ingsoc” a deliberate strategy power rather than economic failure.
Prior to 1984, Orwell was already a leftist writer known for his investigations of outbreaks miserable workers in Yorkshire or unemployed middlesbrough ‘(’ The Wigan Pier). His distrust of the “legal left” satisfied that he already suspected (through the speaker “anti-Hitler” ridiculous “A little fresh air) in 1938, to the bed of totalitarianism, was at least equal to his contempt for the conservative right.

All persons who have lived under a stalinienréf. necessary, as the former dissident Alexander Zinoviev, agreed to welcome the insight of the political and psychological mechanisms of this type of plan which demonstrates Orwell.

THEMES BOOK

Faking of history and propaganda

The party has control over the archives and did accept his own historical truth in the rigging; practices disinformation and brainwashing to establish the plan. He also lost people who become too cumbersome and change their past, or passes, false testimony of interested parties to support, for traitors, spies or saboteurs. This is the principle of mutability of the past. “

“Who owns the past controls the future. “

A real philosophical question is behind the action of the Party: the Party’s theory is that the past does not exist in itself. It is a memory in human minds. The world exists only through human thought and has no absolute reality. Thus, if Winston is the only man to remember that Oceania has been a week earlier in the war against Eurasia and Eastasia non-cons, it is he who is mad and not others. Yet the fact is real, but only in the memory of Winston.

Telescreens

At home and workplaces of members of the Party and in public places, are disposed “telescreens” system of video surveillance and television broadcasting in the message permanently Party. The telescreens allow the thought police to hear and see what happens in each room where it finds one.

Destruction of logical sense

The “logical meaning” of the subject system is corrupt. In Newspeak, for example, the same word as “canelangue” may be a laudatory sense if applied to a Party member or derogatory if applied to an enemy of the Party. It becomes impossible to use it to speak ill of a Party member. The population is overwhelmed with slogans such as:
“War is peace. ”
“Freedom is slavery. ”
“Ignorance is strength. “

Scapegoat and manifestations of hate group

All the ills that afflict society is attributed to an opponent, the “Traitor Emmanuel Goldstein,” whose physical description is very similar to that of Leon Trotsky. The traitor is the subject of sessions mandatory collective hysteria, the “two minutes hate.”

Depletion planned language

The Newspeak been scheduled depletions whose goal is to make possible the expression and formulation of subversive thoughts. At the time that is supposed to spend the novel, Newspeak is still a novelty, and living as best they can with English classic.

Indoctrination of children

To get full power on families, children are very young indoctrinated. They are encouraged to denounce their parents at the slightest sign of “lack of orthodoxy.”
One might compare this behavior with the child during the Italian fascism or with Stalin, who rewarded the young people who denounced their parents and had established a cult around the national spy young Pavlik Morozov.

 BIOGRAPHY OF THE AUTHOR

George Orwell (real name Eric Blair) was born June 25, 1903 at Motihari in India (Bengal present Bangladesh) in an Anglo-Indian, his father was a civil servant. He ended his days in a London clinic where he died January 21, 1950 of tuberculosis.

He began his studies at the age of 8 years in the boarding school of Saint-Cyprien. In 1916, he obtained a scholarship to Eton College a few miles north of Windsor he is leaving, although he was renowned professors, for example Aldous Huxley in French. At 19 he joined the Imperial Police in Burma, there will of 1922 to 1927 until his resignation, this time inspired her Burmese Days (Myanmar history): cynical story, written in 1934, recounting his experience of colonization UK in Burma.

He now sees, as he wished to pursue writing. He moved to Europe, which began for him a difficult period of misery and begging between London and Paris. Guided always personal experiences, he wrote Down and Out in Paris and London (The Mad Cow or Down and Out in Paris and London), an account of his status as a tramp in the two capitals between 1928 and 1934. It describes the lives of marginal people on the street, their galleys daily to find a job, a little food or shelter for the night. He goes himself several odd jobs to survive: schoolmaster, used bookstore, a dishwasher in a Paris restaurant, tramp (vagabond, and particularly workers from town to town to look for work) … “This is the world awaits you if you are a day without a penny,” explains George Orwell a few years later. The meetings that George Orwell made during these years the mark forever, and even regret not having known or Mario Paddy men met in poverty, more intimate.

In 1936, he enlisted in the Spanish civil war in the ranks of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification), Trotskyist party of foreign volunteers, and fought at the front in Aragon. His wife joined him and found a secretary in the office of the International Working Party in Barcelona. In 1937, George was wounded by a bullet in the throat in Huesca. The politics of war, so it appears more and more problems, in fact, he realizes that the destruction of fascism and the liberation of Spain are in reality only a pretext for the different factions to obtain absolute power of the republican forces. In Homage to Catalonia (Catalonia free or Homage to Catalonia) written in 1938, George Orwell describes the complex disagreements existing between the various parties (PSUC, POUM, FAI, CNT and other UGT), point to a special appendix on topic at the end of his book where he explains the actions of communists seeking to get rid of the anarchists. The Stalinist totalitarianism and the organization sclerotic Democrats will eventually demoralize and make him flee the war. He left for Morocco where he was drafted as a sergeant. It will be reformed in 1939.

He returned to work some time in England in factories at night to earn a living. He finally found a station announcer at the BBC In 1943 he became director of the weekly The Tribune, then special envoy of The Observer in Germany and France in 1945 where he is responsible for observing politics.

At the end of his life, George Orwell will be hit by TB, it will nevertheless continue to write, and in 1945 he published Animal Farm (Pets wherever Republic of animals or farm animals), a satire of the political model Stalin, featuring animals taking power away from humans.

But it is a work of George Orwell absolutely need to know is his masterpiece, the meaning of the word, 1984, written in 1949 on the island of Jura, where he s It was installed three years earlier. The novel appeared in London and New York. Roman anticipation denouncing drift political and social systems, in which George Orwell alerted to his character (Winston Smith), a single official, the infernal system in which freedoms are skillfully destroyed by an administration omnipresent and omnipotent . The novel was translated into over 60 languages, its distribution will be such that this description of a totalitarian world is now considered a timeless classic of British literature and world, not least by the famous figure of BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. “