1984 Pictures

Portrait

George Orwell

Illustration

Big Brother poster

Winston writing in his diary

Winston and his diary showing his 'thoughtcrime'

Winston's vivid dream of mother and sister

Winston at the Ministry of Truth

The arrested three at the Chestnut Tree Cafe

The human hand seen by Winston after the bombing

Winston and his coral paperweight

Winston helps girl in corridor

Winston and the girl embrace in a kiss

Winston and Julia during their secret affair

O'Brien and Winston at work

Winston and friends toast to leader of Brotherhood

Winston reading at Charrington's shop

Winston and the soldiers

Winston inside the barren cell

Winston's electric shock torture

O'Brien makes Winston strip to his underclothes and look into a mirror.

Picture

In the late 1940s, Orwell used many aspects of existing totalitarian and communist governments to construct the fictional government of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Pictured here are Chinese army tanks bearing down on a man during the Tiananmen Square uprising of 1989.

John Hurt and Richard Burton in the film Nineteen Eighty-Four, released, appropriately enough, in 1984.