Petik.net - What if you lived in a world where every aspect of your life was controlled by a totalitarian regime? Where your thoughts, words, and actions were monitored and punished by a ruthless party that enforced its ideology through propaganda, surveillance, and torture? Where the past was constantly rewritten to suit the present, and the truth was whatever the party said it was?
Introduction
This is the nightmarish scenario that George Orwell imagined in his classic novel 1984, published in 1949. The book is a dystopian social science fiction that depicts the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the ruling party in Oceania, one of the three superstates that dominate the world after a global war.
Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies historical records to align with the party's official version of reality. He secretly hates the party and dreams of rebellion, but he knows that any sign of dissent will be detected and crushed by the Thought Police.
He begins a forbidden relationship with Julia, a fellow worker who shares his hatred of the party, and they join a mysterious underground organization called the Brotherhood, led by the legendary figure of Emmanuel Goldstein, the enemy of the party.
However, they soon discover that their contact in the Brotherhood is actually a party agent, and they are arrested and tortured until they confess their crimes and betray each other. Winston is finally broken when he is forced to accept that 2 + 2 = 5, a symbol of the party's absolute power over reality.
1984 is widely regarded as one of the most influential and important novels of the 20th century. It has been translated into more than 60 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. It has also inspired countless adaptations, parodies, references, and analyses in various media and genres.
The novel introduced many terms and concepts that have entered common usage, such as Big Brother, doublethink, Newspeak, Thought Police, thoughtcrime, Room 101, and telescreen. The term “Orwellian” has become synonymous with any situation or system that is oppressive, manipulative, deceptive, or dystopian.
Why Orwell Wrote 1984
George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the British colonial administration. He grew up in England and attended Eton College on a scholarship. He then joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, but resigned in 1927 after becoming disillusioned with imperialism.
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