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    In 1984 the world is divided into 3 great powers: Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia.

    They’re continually at war


    with each other. Britain is ruled by a totalitarian dictatorship whose leader is Big Brother. Big Brother (never
    actually seen by anybody) watches every street and building of Britain from huge posters. Everyone is
    constantly monitored by microphones and cameras. There’s no privacy, and children are actually encouraged
    to denounce their own families. The main character of the novel - Winston Smith - is a writer who works for
    the ministry of truth. He feels different from the other members of the party. One day he starts to keep a diary,
    a decision that changes his life. He’s trying to understand what is actually happening in the world apart from
    what the party says. He meets Julia with whom he starts a relationship that is illegal - sex is forbidden - they
    make love and collect old furniture which is also forbidden. When their relationship is discovered they both
    are subjected to “rehabilitation treatment”, a program of mental and physical torture. At the end of the
    treatment they’re cured but destroyed in body and soul. Winston is an automaton, with no will or emotions of
    his own that can’t do anything but adore Big Brother with all his being.

    This represents Orwell’s most famous work and it is a dystopian novel. It describes a society in which man’s
    instincts and intelligence are crushed by a ruthless establishment. Society is divided between members of the
    party, as moment minority, which has absolute control of everything, and the “proles” proletarians who live in
    separate districts and lead an instinctual, brutish life. The party is in turn divided between the outer party, the
    majority, and the very powerful inner party, whose members are unknown.
    The far control and manipulates people’s minds through the ministry of truth. This has two main functions:
    constantly rewriting history by literally rewriting books and newspapers, adapting them to the political need of
    the moment; constantly reducing vocabulary to the point where there will be very few words and nuances of
    meaning. In the end, the book tells the story of the annihilation of the individual by an all-controlling ruling
    system. The story is set in 1984, not to the extent from the time the novel was written: 1948 - the last two
    numbers that were reversed to give the title of the novel.

    1984 is more than just another great novel. It has become one of the modern myths, anti-myths, For its
    prophetic picture of a world where individuality is annihilated. Big Brother has become the symbol of the total
    control of the individual life by mass media in technological societies. Some of the novel’s terms have entered
    the English language and others: big Brother, newspeak, double think, proles, telescreen, two minutes hate.

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