1984

George Orwell’s 1984 is one of the books that I can not stop talking about; one book that i will never never run out of words for, and yet a book that in a new way everytime, seems to drive me speechless.
I was merely 17 when I firat read the narrative and re-read it time and again. Today, I am 22, and I still go back to it and am fascinated at how someone could be so farsighted and presently universally relevant.
Written in 1948, during the cold war era, and the context of post world war 2. The world faced a threat of living on continuous brink of another large scale crisis and Orwell wondered under such conditions, what would it be like, 46 years into the future if these circumstances, politics and tendencies prevailed.
The narrative is, thus, a fiction set in such world as Orwell would imagine was to follow in the future. The story revolves around Winston Smith’s life in the post cold war context. The world is divided into three large continents, of which two are always in alliance, and two are always at war. Oceania, Winston’s land is governed by the “party” with the “big brother” at its head. The public lives under constant surveillance and navigation. The Ministries continuously held out to discipline, ingrain into your brain the loyalty and monitor your behaviour. Under such a regime, citizens lived with no privacy and as would have been in the human race, the rebellion that reaides within humans, many people held this rebellion within them; And people like Winston rose in this rebellion beyond just thought, that already was crime enough.
The tale follows this journey of Winston acting on his rebellion and facing what comes as effect.
The major themes of the movel is relating to the conditions that human greed in politics is capable of creating. The form of governance that is tot@litarian in nature brings about a loss of personal freedom. This freedom also involves the one to think and even remember, memory and truth is changed to befit the government and its chrrent requirements. Vocabulary is changed and modified, reduced to reduce the risk of rebellion and a war ensuring complete submission to national duty.
What I find most catching about 1984 is that it was not mere imagination or a possible future that the book asvicates and paints throughout. Ever so Subtly, these things are slowly taking place in the present world.
I love 1984 ao much that i may write another chapter on it some day.