Summary Of 1984 By George Orwell
The center of many issues, 1984 by George Orwell is set to paint a picture. Its main conflict is the battle of individuality versus state. In this totalitarian dystopia every individual is brainwashed to abide the reign of Big Brother and follow in his lead. The main character, Winston Smith attempts to rebel against the dictatorially Party. Independent thought, along with all other human values and ideals is eliminated, and replaced only with dedicated loyalty to the Party. The party is able to achieve these goals by restricting language, eliminating free thought, enforced social hierarchy, and virtually complete control of reality.
George Orwell was born Eric Blair on June 25, 1903; he died January 21, 1950 from tuberculosis. In 1936, Orwell traveled to Spain to report on Spanish Civil War. Orwell witnessed the rise of power of dictators such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union inspired Orwell’s mounting hatred of totalitarianism and political authority. Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.
During the time period 1984 was written, the British economy was poor, the British Empire was …show more content…
dissolving at the same time as newspapers were reporting its triumphs, and wartime allies such as the USSR were rapidly becoming peacetime foes.
In order to control the citizens of Oceania, the party restricted the language.
Newspeak is the official language of Oceania. It was created to neutralize the possibilities of any rebellious thoughts. Newspeak doesn’t contain any negative words. For example, to express the word ‘bad’ it would be said as ‘ungood’. Newspeak’s grammar is arranged so that any word can serve as any part of speech, and there are three different groups of vocabulary words. The particularities of Newspeak make it impossible to translate a majority of older English texts into the language. An example of this would be The Declaration of Independence can be translated into a single word which is
crimethink.
Shortly after the book was translated into Russian it was banned in the former U.S.S.R. Some early reviewers suggested that it was a commentary against Joseph Stalin’s infamous “midnight purges”. In 1981, parents in Jackson County, Florida, would make the challenged that it was “procommunist” and that it contained “explicit sexual matter.” The book is commonly removed from U.S. schools under the “procommunist” argument; and is considered for being “anti-government.” Some parental groups take issue with the sexual interaction between Winston and Julia, and questioned it as being “too gloomy and depressing” for school-age readers because of its bleak vision of the future and having no “happily ever after” ending.
George Orwell was born Eric Blair on June 25, 1903; he died January 21, 1950 from tuberculosis. In 1936, Orwell traveled to Spain to report on Spanish Civil War. Orwell witnessed the rise of power of dictators such as Adolf Hitler in Germany and Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union inspired Orwell’s mounting hatred of totalitarianism and political authority. Between 1941 and 1943, Orwell worked on propaganda for the BBC. In 1943, he became literary editor of the Tribune, a weekly left-wing magazine. He was a prolific journalist, writing articles, reviews and books.
During the time period 1984 was written, the British economy was poor, the British Empire was …show more content…
dissolving at the same time as newspapers were reporting its triumphs, and wartime allies such as the USSR were rapidly becoming peacetime foes.
In order to control the citizens of Oceania, the party restricted the language.
Newspeak is the official language of Oceania. It was created to neutralize the possibilities of any rebellious thoughts. Newspeak doesn’t contain any negative words. For example, to express the word ‘bad’ it would be said as ‘ungood’. Newspeak’s grammar is arranged so that any word can serve as any part of speech, and there are three different groups of vocabulary words. The particularities of Newspeak make it impossible to translate a majority of older English texts into the language. An example of this would be The Declaration of Independence can be translated into a single word which is
crimethink.
Shortly after the book was translated into Russian it was banned in the former U.S.S.R. Some early reviewers suggested that it was a commentary against Joseph Stalin’s infamous “midnight purges”. In 1981, parents in Jackson County, Florida, would make the challenged that it was “procommunist” and that it contained “explicit sexual matter.” The book is commonly removed from U.S. schools under the “procommunist” argument; and is considered for being “anti-government.” Some parental groups take issue with the sexual interaction between Winston and Julia, and questioned it as being “too gloomy and depressing” for school-age readers because of its bleak vision of the future and having no “happily ever after” ending.