Review: Novel by George Orwell, published in 1949 as a warning about the menaces of totalitarianism. The novel is set in an imaginary future world that is dominated by three perpetually warring totalitarian police states. The book's hero, Winston Smith, is a minor party functionary in one of these states. His longing for truth and decency leads him to secretly rebel against the government. Smith has a love affair with a like-minded woman, but they are both arrested by the Thought Police. The ensuing imprisonment, torture, and reeducation of Smith are intended not merely to break him physically or make him submit but to root out his independent mental existence and his spiritual dignity. Orwell's warning of the dangers of totalitarianism made a deep impression on his contemporaries and upon subsequent readers, and the book's title and many of its coinages, such as NEWSPEAK, became bywords for modern political abuses. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
Opinion: This books reflects very well the flow of thought at the Cold War. It shows all the evils brought by a totalitarian estate. The descriptions of A Thought Police that controls all their actions are really scary. And it also shows that equality is impossible in a state like that. I think that it became an important part of Modern Literature. Partly because many people in the United States feared a state like that with all their might probably thinking of how they could be robbed of all their liberties. What I personally like is that the feelings of the main character come trough really easily.
Final Rating: 10/10
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