Dec 23, 2009
Instead of a glorious future of freedom and dignity, George Orwell imagines that despair, slavery, and numbing hopelessness will be mankind’s fate. The slogans of the new order--War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength--adequately convey the bleakness of the world that Orwell envisioned. The inhabitants of this future society live under the watchful eye of Big Brother, leader of a government whose power is enforced by Thought Police and diabolical informants.
The novel’s protagonist, Winston Smith, a member of the outer ring of the Party, finds himself slowly...
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