Tuesday, January 27, 2015

1984


 

            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Winston Smith who is a clerk that works in ministry of truth and what he does for his job is that he rewrites historical documents so that they match what the party says.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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