The
book I am going to blog about is a very iconic one and that has affected pop
culture today. The book I am blogging about is 1984 by George Orwell and it is
set in a totalitarian dystopian future. This book is very interesting and
utterly depressing but still interesting because it was written in 1949 and viewed
the future in perpetual war against each other.
The book starts with our protagonist Winston Smith who is a clerk that
works in ministry of truth and what he does for his job is that he rewrites historical
documents so that they match what the party says. Which is completely ironic
but then again ministry of peace deals with making war and ministry of love
deals with torturing those who are in any way show disloyalty to the party. But
anyway Winston decides to keep a journal and starts to write in the date 1984
even though he isn’t certain if that is even the true date. But the thing is
that in the book he doesn’t know what to write in the journal because in
Airstrip One (formally known as Great Britain) a providence of the super state
Oceania and perhaps other parts of the world is individual not allowed and
those who show any kind of individual have a high chance of being erased. But
that it how this world is they even have the slogans WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS
SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. Which is completely comradery but the
majority of the population has been brainwashed into thing this way just..you
know this is exactly like the third Reich which is when the Nazis took over
Germany. The future of this book is like a vision of the future in which the
Nazis won but the war kept continuing until the history of the past became completely
warped.
But anyway what happens more in the book is that
a young women named Julia writes a note to Winston proposing her love to him.
They both became lovers and they both have a shared loathing of the party. But
they are eventually are taken by the Thought Police and taken to the Ministry
of Love. Winston and Julia are being cured of their insanity and taken to room
101 to be reeducated and it is one of the most feared room in the Ministry of
Love. In the end they both survive the reeducation but....that is all I will
say because if I do say anymore the book is ruined. But anyway in the beginning
I mention cultural impact one of the things I didn’t mentioned in the short
synopsis is Big Brother who is the figure head and the embodiment of the party.
Big Brother has affected pop culture an example is the BBC show called BigBrother which will be airing again in 2015. Another concept introduces in the
book is room 101 which is a term meaning of a place of where unpleasant and
terrible things are done. Other examples of hoe this affected pop culture is
the movie version of 1984 which was released in 1984. There is also the episode
of Doctor Who called "The God Complex" which has an alien space ship
that has room 101-like places. So yes this book is a very big deal and I really
liked reading it but not the book part of the book and if you read the book you
would know what I was talking about.
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