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His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism (both authoritarian communism and fascism), and support of democratic socialism.<br />Orwell is best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945) and the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), although his works also encompass literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. His non-fiction works, including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937), documenting his experience of working-class life in the industrial north of England, and Homage to Catalonia (1938), an account of his experiences soldiering for the Republican faction of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), are as critically respected as his essays on politics, literature, language and culture.<br />Orwell's work remains influential in popular culture and in political culture, and the adjective "Orwellian"—describing totalitarian and authoritarian social practices—is part of the English language, like many of his neologisms, such as "Big Brother", "Thought Police", "Room 101", "Newspeak", "memory hole", "doublethink", and "thoughtcrime". 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23.2486C19.5445 23.1604 19.6865 22.8752 19.5983 22.6117L16.996 14.8432L23.7872 10.0456C23.9206 9.95133 24 9.7981 24 9.63469Z"></path></svg></span></span></div><span class="Text Text__body3"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/526650534">February 19, 2017</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">It's written 1948? Clearly History has its twisted ways to repeat itself..<br>A Note that MUST be written in the cover of every edition..<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1398160120i/9377944.jpg" width="450" height="292" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br>لم اتوقع أن هذا التحذير <b> "إن هذه الرواية تحذير وليست بدليل"</b> بهذه الواقعية، مازالت الحكومات العربية تراقب الجميع لحماية أمن الحكام..بينما مازال أمن الأفراد هزيلا..منعدما<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1417385252i/12335398.jpg" width="450" height="448" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><b><br>هي الرواية التي كتبت في 1948 بعبقرية، أرسي بها جورج أورويل قواعد روايات الديستوبيا بحق<br>وإن كانت مستوحاه من واقع محيط به ولكن التاريخ دائما يجد وسيلة ليتكرر ويزيد وينتشر ويتوغل<br>هي رواية مازالت صداها في روايات شبابية تصدر حتي الأن متأثرة بها..بل وقد تكون اكثر امتاعا منها<br><br>*تحذير هام قبل البدء*<br>كاتب الريفيو متأثرا ويعاني أعراض "ازدواجية التفكير" بشكل خطير<br>فأذا لم تقرأ الرواية بعد فستستشعر ان كاتب الريفيو "مجنونا"، أما اذا قد قرأتها فستتيقن انه حتما يعاني من الجنون <br><br>=======*****=======</b><br>عشقت هذه الروايه لدرجه الكراهيه<br>احببت جمال قبح العامه، وكرهت الحريه بشده..اقتنعت باننا يجب ان نخطئ وارتعبت جدا من الصواب<br><br>وقد كرهت بشده الاجزاء السياسيه و ضجرت من تلك المقاله السياسيه الطويله "في الجزء الثاني" والتي عزمت علي ان اقرأها قراءه سريعه ..ولكن قرأت مايقرب من 40 صفحه في ساعه ونصف!! لأني شعرت انها فعلا يجب ان تقرأ بتمعن, فهي من اهم المقالات السياسية الواقعية<br><br>كرهت تلك المشاهد الجنسيه البسيطه ولعلي استشطت غضبا اذا لم تحدث<br>وكم كرهت تلك النهايه التي شعرت انها قُدمت كنهاية سعيده..واكرهها اكثر كلما اشعر انها فعلا ليست سعيده<br><b>لقد عشقت تلك الروايه لاني شعرت بالملل المثير طوال احداثها<br>لم اشعر انها كلاسيكيه,رايتها معاصره واحداثها واقعية وتدور في الوقت الحالي , ومع ذلك شعرت بملل الكلاسيكيات بها<br>روايه ينعدم فيها العواطف ولكني تأثرت لدرجه الدمع في احد مشاهدها <br>روايه عشقت فيها اشمئزازي الرهيب منها, واحداثها وشخصي<D8B5><D98A>تها<br>روايه كنت اسابق الزمن كي انهي عذابي معها..وافكر في نفس الوقت متي سأقرأها مره ثانيه..قريبا <br><br>=======*****=======<br>الاحداث<br>------</b><br>اذا كنت من هواة قراءة الروايات الحديثة -مثلي- واعجبتك تلك الروايات المصنفه كديستوبيا - حيث يعم المدينه او الدوله او العالم ككل الظلم و القهر والفساد والاستبداد, الدمار والتجارب اللاانسانيه - تلك الروايات مثل<br><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/443821858" rel="nofollow noopener">The Hunger Games</a> و <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/547115723" rel="nofollow noopener">The Maze Runner</a> و <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/562165570" rel="nofollow noopener">Divergent</a><br><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/443741446" rel="nofollow noopener">او تجربه الرائع احمد خالد توفيق المصريه يوتوبيا</a><br> <img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379775912i/349139.png" width="99" height="144" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380368029i/720545.jpg" width="96" height="144" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798315._SY540_.jpg" width="100" height="144" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798316.jpg" width="100" height="144" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"> <br>فعليك بالبدء في تلك الروايه الكلاسيكيه للروائي العبقري "جورج اورويل" 1984<br>-فهي مدخل رائع لمثل ذلك النوع من الروايات, ولن تشعر أبدا انها كلاسيكية او قديمة, حتي وان كانت ترجع ل1948...قبل عنوان الرواية بأربعون عاما<br><br>يجب التنويه انه اذا كنت قراءتها واعجبتك بالفعل فعليك بقراءه تلك الروايات الحديثه ايضا- ..بالأخص العاب المجاعات<br><b><br>عقب الحرب العالميه الثانيه وفي وقت صراعات النازيه والشيوعيه ,فتره الاربعينات من القرن الماضي ينقلك المؤلف الي لندن في الديستوبيا التي يتنبأ بها بعد اقل من 40 عاما<br>ففي عام 1984 ستجد ان العالم بعد صراعاته الدمويه النوويه صار مقسما الي 3 قوي رئيسيه تتحكم في العالم بكل ما تحمله كلمه "تحكم" من معني<br>فتتحكم في مسكنك ومأكلك ومشربك,تتحكم في اسلوب حياتك,تتحكم في أراءك,توجهاتك<br>تتحكم في افكارك,مشاعرك,عواطفك..فتذكر ان الاخ الكبير يراقبك..دائما وابدا<br><br>هل العالم كله هكذا؟ كيف لك ان تعرف ماذا يحدث في باقي العالم..اصمت واستمع للاخ الكبير فحسب..لا يوجد لك سبيل تواصل مع العالم الخارجي..فكلهم عدو لبلدك<br>انت منعزل تماما عن العالم..لايصلك من اخباره الا ما يقوله لك الأخ الكبير - هل يبدو ذلك مألوفا لك؟؟<br></b><br>ستقابل مفاجأت واحداث مثيره, ثوره داخليه بعقلك,عقل وينستون البطل الذي تتعايش معه..كراهيه التمرد والشغف الشديد به<br>نبذ الحريه التي هي العبوديه..نبذ السلام الذي هو الحرب<br><b><br>بالنسبه لي ما يعيب الاحداث شيئا ما هو الجزء المطول من "كتاب حكم الاقليه" والذي ذكرني كثيرا بجو كتب الفلسفه السياسيه كتلك التي يقدمها "يوسف زيدان" وغيره من مدعي الحنكة السياسية...ولكن يقدمها جورج اورويل هنا بطريقه محايده, مفهومة ومتميزة وبالرغم من الملل الذي اعتراني في الجزء الثاني ربما اغلبه بسبب هذا الجزء والذي بالرغم من انك قد قرأت ملخصه في الجزء الاول من الاحداث الا انك ستجد انه من الصعب ان تتركه دون قراءه<br><br>ويحسب بحق للمؤلف "تعمقه الشديد"في احداث روايته ورسمها فعلا كانها عن عالم حقيقي.. "ذكرني بعبقريه اخري معاصره هي جي كي رولينج عندما تسهب في عرض مقالات من جرائد عالمها الساحر او عرض صفحات عده لاحد كتب ذلك العالم الخيالي الذي ابتكرته" وهذا ان دل علي شئ فانما يدل عن انك امام روايه ثريه لم يبخل المؤلف بها بشئ ليجعل من الخيال واقعيه فهو ايضا مزج تاريخ اوقيانيا بتاريخ تلك الاحداث العالميه الحقيقيه والمعاصره -وقت صدور الروايه - من نازيه و شيوعيه<br></b><br>راعني ايضا ملاحظه وجدتها علي الويكابيديا هو ان "تبخير الانسان" واعتباره لم يكن<br>Unperson<br>كان امرا حقيقيا واتبعه بتعديل الصور وذلك في الاتحاد السوفييتي في الثلاثينات في صوره لستالين مع نيكولاي يزوف رئيس الشرطه السريه والتي تم تعديلها بعد اعدام الاخير لينسب الفضل لستالين وحده في حمله التطهير الشيوعيه وليكون وحده صاحب الفضل في بناء الاتحاد السوفييتي..اي ان الامر له اصول حقيقيه<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798317.jpg" width="190" height="128" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798318.jpg" width="195" height="128" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br>وأه من مظهر ستالين نفسه :)<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798319.jpg" width="150" height="205" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1342987546l/15755549.jpg" width="132" height="205" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b><u><br>وكما قلت في بدايه الريفيو ان ازدواجيه التفكير قادتني الي الجنون في هذا الريفيو</u><br>فاني من اعجابي الشديد بالروايه كنت اتمني ان لا تنتشر, ولا يتم طبعها ولا قراءتها علي نطاق واسع...فكم من اخ كبير ظهر بعدها ونفذ قليلا او كثيرا من سياسته...سواء كان علي حق وصواب في جزء من سياسته او علي خطأ<br>كم منا وصل الامر معه لعشق الاخ الكبير وحبه وتوقف عقله وذهنه وكأن هذا الاخ الكبير الذي نصبه لنفسه لا يخطئ؟<br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798320.jpg" width="67" height="81" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798321.jpg" width="69" height="81" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798322.jpg" width="73" height="81" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798323.jpg" width="57" height="81" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798324._SY540_.jpg" width="57" height="81" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>وايضا من اعجابي الشديد بالروايه اتمني ان تنتشر ويتم طبعها كثيرا و تقرأ علي نطاق واسع<br>فكم منا يجب ان يفيق ويدرك ان عليه ان يعمل بعقله ويفكر كثيرا في حريه فكره وعقله...يفكر لصالحه ولصالح المجتمع ويتخلص من سلطه الاخ الكبير عندما يراه خاطئا كاذبا او منافقا<br></b><i> الصور مجرد صور..لاتعبر عن راي شخصي فمابين تلك الصور ناس احترم سياستهم ولكني لا اراهم دائما علي حق ..فهم بشر اولا واخيرا بعضهم اصابوا ويصيبون قليلا و اخطئوا و يخطئون كثيرا و بعضهم العكس</i><b><br><br>تناقض؟ هذا هو مايسمي بازدواجيه الفكر التي ستجدها في تلك الروايه الرائعه بحق<br>اقرأها لتتعرف كيف تحكم عقلك في مايعرض عليك من تاريخ..لتحاول التفرقه بين الزيف وبين الحق<br>لعلنا نستطيع القضاء علي من يسيطر علينا باسم الاخ الكبير..او من يدعي انه جولدشتاين عصره..اقرأها فانها بحق<br>روايه مرهقه للعقل<br><br>=======*****=======<br>الشخصيات<br>-------</b><br> <b>وينستون سميث</b><br>هو من ستتوحد معه خلال احداث الروايه<br>وهو الاختيار المناسب ,فهو الطبقه المتوسطه-ماتحت النخبة-..فهو يتوافر له الطعام والشراب والمسكن...ليس ادميا او يتناسب مع كونه احد اعضاء الحزب الخارجي وانما علي الاقل ادميا بما فيه الكفايه مقارنه بعامه الشعب ,اللاشئ , هؤلاء الذين يمثلون 85% من السكان,وهو في وضع أأمن منهم بعيدا عن اماكنهم المعرضه للقصف باستمرار<br><br>ولكنه ليس افضل حالا منهم<br>فقيود حريته اعظم بكثير فهو -عكس عامه الشعب-مراقب 24/7حتي في احلامه واغوار عقله الباطن فيجب ان يكون منضبطا كالمسطره..تاركا افكارك ومشاعرك وعواطفك وتوجهاتك في يد "الاخ الكبير"..في يد حزبك الداخلي والذي يمثل 2% من السكان..اسيادك<br><br>ذلك الحزب الداخلي الذي لا تعرف كيف يعيش..هل هو مثلك في تلك المعيشه..معيشه الكفاف او ما دونه؟ بالتاكيد لا, هم ليسوا كعامه الشعب الذين صاروا تحت مستوي الفقر..بل تحت مستوي الحياه نفسها, فلا يلقوا الكفاف..وحياتهم مهدده من وقت لاخر جراء عمليات القصف الحربيه التي لا احد يعرف كنهها بالتحديد<br><br><b><br>برع المؤلف في رسم شخصيته بطريقه ممتازه,تحولاته ودوافعه وافكاره بل ورسم ذكرياته باتقان وربط بينها وبين الاحداث بطريقه..عبقريه جورج اورويل فعلا ايقنتها برسمه لشخصيته<br><input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. 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tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>حدثني عن القهر<br />عن الاستعباد<br />عن الذل<br />ثم حدثني بأدق التفاصيل ‏<br />عن مراحل تقويض الكائن الانساني‏<br /><br />حدثني كثيرا وطويلا كي أعي هذا الدمار<br />كي أتشربه<br />كي أدميه في لحمي وأعصابي نصلا حادا طويلا<br />كي أنزف روحي بكاء<br />كي أتعلم شيئا نافعا قبل أن أغادر هذا العالم البائس<br /><br />حدثني يا أورويل فما أشهى وجع حديثك<br />وما أشهى ألم المعرفة النازف<br /><br />‏<u>الحرب هي السلام</u><br /><br />ما المفترض علي فعله<br />الكتابة عن نفسي أم عن وطني أم عن وينستون<br />بمن أبدأ<br /><br />ولكن مهلا<br />لما التفرقة..؟<br />كلنا واحد<br />أنا.. وينستون..جوليا..أنت..‏<br />بقعة الأرض التي تنتمي إليها روحك<br />وتدعوها وطن<br /><br /><u>الحريّة هي العبودية</u><br /><br />كلنا كتلة معجونة بألف نوع من النزف<br />كلنا ذرات اجتمعت وتشكلت آدميين ونباتات وصخور<br /><br /><u>الجهل هو القّوة</u><br /><br />كلنا غبار نجوم أراد له حظه السيئ أن يتشكل ليكون العائلة ‏الإنسانية على كوكب ملعون أسميناه الأرض<br /><br /> ‏<u>الأخ الكبير يراقبك</u><br /><br />من نحن يا أورويل..؟<br />من نحن حتى نفعل ذلك بأنفسنا<br />من نحن حتى نهزم بعضنا البعض بهذه الطريقة<br />أي لعنة حلت بنا فأصبحنا بشرا يأكل بعضه بعضا بأبشع ‏الصور..؟<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>الولاء يعني إنعدام التفكير .. بل إنعدام الحاجة للتفكير <br /> الولاء هو عدم الوعي<br />____________</blockquote><br /><br />يقول أورويل أن الكتاب الأفضل<br />هو ما يخبرك بما تعرفه بالفعل<br />ولكننا باختلاف خبراتنا لم نكن نعرف أننا يمكن لنا كبشر أن ‏ننحط لهذه الدرجة<br />أن ننهزم لهذه الدرجة<br />كان هناك أمل أهوج يناطح بداخل كل واحد فينا بدرجة متفاوتة<br />يحاول الاحتفاظ بصورته الآدمية التي تمزقت أشلاء مرة تلو ‏المرة<br />بعد كل قراءة للتاريخ<br />أو معايشة لأحداث ثورة<br /><br />ولكنه كان كذلك حقا بالنسبة لي<br />لقد أخبرني بما كنت أعرفه بالفعل<br />لكنني أنكر بعضه بعناد<br />أهوّن على نفسي بابتداعات دماغية ‏<br />بهلوسات أمل عن انتصار العدل ذات يوم<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>من وجهة نظر الطبقة الدنيا ‏<br />فإن أي تغيير تاريخي لا يعدو أن يكون مجرد تغيير في أسماء ‏‏سادتها<br />ــــــــــــــــ</blockquote><br />من منا نظر إلى ما حوله بنفس الطريقة بعد قراءة كتاب ‏كهذا..؟<br />من منا لم تتغير رؤيته لأشياء كثيرة كثيرة كان عنها غافل<br />أو متغافل<br />إن لم يكن هذا الكتاب ضربة الفأس التي تحدث عنها كافكا<br />والتي تهزك من الأعماق<br />فماذا يكون إذا..؟<br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>‏إن ألد أعدائك هو جهازك العصبي<br />ــــــــــــ</blockquote><br />إنها الديستوبيا الأكثر سوادا في تاريخ الأدب<br />فيها يعيش الكائن الحي في خوف دائم<br />خوف من شرطة الفكر<br />من شاشات الرصد<br />من التفوه بكلمة قد تدمر حياته بأكملها<br />من تعبير وجه قد ينفلت منه دون قصد فيسحق بلا رحمة<br />من خطرٍ محتمل الوقوع<br />من عدو مجهول قد ينقض عليك في أي لحظة<br />من عيون الأخ الكبير<br />الإله..المخلص..المحبوب غصبا عن الكل.. وبرضا الكل<br />تلك العيون التي لم تترك شيئا لم تتواجد عليه‏<br />أغلفة الكتب ..الطوابع.. ‏الأعلام .. أغلفة الحلوى..لعملات ‏<br />إنه يلاحقك أينما تكون<br />وفي كل وقت<br /><br />الأخ الأكبر ‏<br />الطاغية المعبود في كل زمان ومكان<br />هذا الذي قد يكون مستوحى من ستالين<br />ولكنه يجثم على أنفاس الخلائق منذ بدأ تاريخ الأرض‏<br /><br />وأوقيانيا هي الدولة‏ التي اخترعها أورويل <br />ليبني على أرضها ‏هذه الديستوبيا المريعة<br /><br />فيها شاشات الرصد تترصد كل ‏تحركاتك<br />فيها يحافظ الجميع على دقيقتي الكراهية<br />للتنفيس عن غضبهم من المعارض غولدشتاين<br />أو بمعنى آخر الشيطان الأعظم كما يصور له سادته<br /><br />إنه مجتمع مصادر الحقوق منتهك الحريات ‏<br />‏محروم حتى من مجرد التفكير<br />مجتمع يقضي عمره كله تحت الرقابة<br />التي تحصي عليه أنفاسه ‏ وتحركاته ‏<br />مجتمع يعرف مصيره منذ أن يولد<br />يعرف أن الطاغية الأعظم قد حدد له كل شيء سلفا<br />طعامه.. شرابه .. نوع قهوته -بن النصر ‏<br />عدد ‏شفرات الحلاقة<br /><br />‏فيه وزارة الحقيقة ‏ تزور الحقيقة وتختلق الأكاذيب ‏<br />وزارة ‏السلام تختص بشؤون الحرب والسلاح<br />وزارة الوفرة تجوع المواطنين<br />‏ ووارة الحب تعذب الخلائق وتناهض الجنس ‏<br /><br />أهي تسميات ساخرة حقا..؟<br />أوزارة الحب تختلف عن الأمن الوطني أو أمن الدولة عندنا..؟<br />في الرواية تبررها فلسفة الحزب-الدولة للتفكير المزدوج<br /><br />أما عندنا فما هو التبرير يا ترى<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>‎إن جريمة الفكر لا تفضي إلى الموت إنها الموت نفسه‎<br />ـــــــــــــ</blockquote><br /><br />يعتمد الحزب الميمون على ما أسماه بالتفكير الازدواجي<br />إنه يعني ببساطة أن تعي ‏الحقيقة كاملة ‏<br />ومع ذلك تصدق عكسها وبنفس القناعة<br />‏ أن ‏تؤمن برأيين متناقضين ‏<br />‏" أن تجهض المنطق بالمنطق‏<br />‏ أن ترفض الالتزام ‏بالأخلاق فيما أنت واحدٌ من الداعين إليها<br />‏ أن تعتقد أن ‏الديمقراطية ضربٌ من المستحيل في حين أن ‏الحزب وصيّ عليه<br />‏أن تنسى كل ما يتعين عليك نسيانه ثم تستحضره في الذاكرة ‏حينما ‏تمس الحاجة إليه<br />‏ ثم تنساه مرة ثانية فورًا.."‏<br /><br />إنه ليس تجردا من الإنسانية فحسب‏<br />إنه إعادة تصنيع للمخ البشري<br />بعد محو كل ما بداخله<br />إنهم لا يكتفون بأن تخاف<br />بأن تصير كتلة ممزقة اللحم والأعصاب تستعطفهم الموت حتى ‏ينتهي عذابك<br />إنهم يحيلونك آخر<br />ليصير عقلك ألة<br />مجرد آلة صماء تنفذ الأوامر‏<br />وهذا الآخر أو الآلة يصير مقتنعا تمام الاقتناع بكل استبداد كان ‏يناضل لأجل زواله‏<br /><br />إنهم يمسخونك ..‏<br />وهذا أشنع ما في الأمر<br />هذا أشنع ما في الأمر<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>وأدرك أيضاً أن هذا هو ما يعتري الإنسان في كل المواقف ‏‏البطولية والمأساوية<br />ففي ميدان القتال أو في غرفة التعذيب أو على متن سفينة ‏تغرق<br />تغدو القضايا التي تحارب من أجلها طيّ النسيان دائما<br />ذلك لأن جسدك يظل يتضخم حتى يملأ عليك العالم فلا ترى ‏سواه<br />ــــــــــــــــ</blockquote><br /><br />يعمل وينستون سميث في وزارة ‏الحقيقة<br />يشاهد ويشارك يوميا في تزوير التاريخ ‏<br />كل السجلات تم إتلافها ‏<br />وكل كتاب أعيدت كتابته وكل ‏صورة أعيد رسمها<br />واسم كل تمثال وشارع وبناية جرى استبداله<br />وكل تاريخ جرى تحريفه ‏<br /><br />‏“إننا نقوم بتدمير الكلمات –عشرات بل مئات الكلمات<br /> "كل يوم ‏‏يجري تدميرها.. إننا نسلخ اللغة حتى العظام<br /><br />ولكن وينستون ارتكب الجريمة العظمى<br />فقد بدأ في الشك‏<br />والتفكير في هذا الهراء الذي يعيش بداخله<br />لقد تمرد في عقله ثم على أرض الواقع<br />يقيم ‏علاقةً مع جوليا المتمردة كذلك‏<br />ينخرط معها في تنظيم للتآمر على الحزب ‏<br />أو هكذا خيل لهما<br /><br />وهكذا يلقى تحت رحمة من لا يرحم<br /><br />‏ "إننا ‏سنسحقك إلى درجة لا يمكنك بعدها أن تعود بحياتك إلى ‏سيرتها ‏الأولى وستحدث لك أشياء لن يمكنك أن تبرأ من ‏آثارها حتى لو ‏عشت ألف عام وأبدا لن تقدر ثانيةً على الشعور ‏بما يشعر به ‏الأحياء<br />إن كل شيء سيموت داخلك ولن تعود ‏قادرا على الحب أو ‏الصداقة أو الاستمتاع بالحياة أو الضحك أو ‏حب الاستطلاع أو ‏الشجاعة أو الاستقامة<br /> "ستكون أجوف لأننا ‏سنعصرك حتى تصبح ‏خواء من كل شيء ثم نملأك بذواتنا <br /><br />والتعذيب الرهيب الذي يتعرض له وينستون هو تعذيب ممنهج ‏<br />"نحن لا نحطم أعداءنا فحسب <br />‏وإنما نغير ما في أنفسهم"<br /><br />لا بطش من أجل الانتقام <br />أو تلقين الخارجين عن قوانين الحزب ‏درسا قاسيا<br /><br />إنهم لا يقبلون بالطاعة السلبية أو حتى بالخضوع‏ بمعناه المعروف<br />فعندما يخضع السجين في النهاية يجب أن يكون ذلك نابعًا من ‏إرادته الحرة‏<br />لا يكفي أن ‏‏تقول أن 2 ‏‏+ 2 =5‏<br />يجب أن تؤمن بها ‏<br /><br />"إننا نبدد فكره ونجعله ‏واحدًا منا قبل أن نقتله<br />إننا نجري للدماغ غسيلا شاملاً قبل أن ‏نعصف به<br />نحن نختلف عن طغاة الماضي الذين يقولون: ‏<br />يجب ‏أن لا تفعل ذلك <br />‏ وعن الاستبداديين الذين يقولون: ‏<br />يجب أن تفعل ‏ذلك<br /> "نحن نقول: كن..‏<br /><br />إنهم لا يسمحون لأحد بأن يخرج ‏من سجنهم شهيدا‏<br /><br />إنهم لن ي<><D98A>معوا عنك أبدًا لأنّك ستُزال تمامًا من سجل ‏التاريخ"<br />سنحيلك إلى غاز ثم نطلقك في الهواء. سنجعلك نسيًا ‏منسيًّا. ‏ولن يبقى منك شيء لا اسمًا في سجل ولا أثرًا في ذاكرةٍ ‏حيّة<br />‏ستمحى كل علاقةٍ لك بالماضي كما بالمستقبل وستصبح ‏وكأنك ‏لم تكن "‏<br /><br /><u>‏-كم اصبعا تري يا ونستون ‏..؟<br />‏-أربعا.. خمسا ‏<br />الرقم الذي تريده ..كل ما أرجوه أن توقف ‏الألم‏...‏</u><br /><br />تحت وطأة التعذيب يعترف وينستون "بجرائم" لم يرتكبها أصلا<br /><br />‏وغدا همه الوحيد أن يكتشف ما يريدون أن يعترف به" ‏<br />حتى يبادر إلي الاعتراف قبل أن يلجأ المحققون لحمله علي ‏ذلك‏"<br /><br />اغتيال ‏عدد من أعضاء الحزب البارزين ‏<br />وتوزيع ‏منشورات تحرض علي الفتنة ‏<br />واختلاس أموال عامة وبيع أسرار ‏عسكرية والاشتراك في ‏عمليات التخريب ‏<br />وبأنه كان ‏عميلا مأجورا لحكومة استاسيا ‏<br />وبأنه كان مؤمنا بالله ومعجبا ‏بالرأسمالية ‏<br />وبأنه انزلق الي الشذوذ الجنسي ‏<br />وأنه قتل ‏زوجته بالرغم من أنه يعرف مثلما يعرف المحققون ‏أن زوجته لا ‏تزال علي قيد الحياة<br />......<br /><br />يمر وينستون بمراحل عدة حتى يصل لمرحلة القبول<br /><br />لقد شعر في غحدى المراحل بأن بقاءه إنسانا <br />هو أمر يستحق ‏التضحية من أجله ‏<br />حتى لو لم يؤد ذلك إلى نتيجة فإنه يكون قد ‏ألحق بهم الهزيمة‏<br /><br />وقد مرت عليه أوقات كانت رؤيته للحرية<br />هي أن يموت وهو يكرههم‏<br /><br />ولكن ذلك كما نعلم.. لم يدم طويلا<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /> <blockquote>كان الذي استهواه من ذلك كله هو تلك الحركة <br />التي نزعت بها ‏‏ثيابها وطوحت بها أرضا <br />فبرش<D8B1><D8B4>قتها وعدم مبالاتها بدا كأنها ‏‏تقوض ‏ثقافة كاملة <br />وتنقض نظاما فكريا بكليته، كما لو لن الأخ ‏‏الكبير والحزب وشرطة الفكر يمكن أن تذهب أدراج الرياح ‏بحركة ‏بارعة ‏كحركة ذراعها ‏ ‏<br />ــــــــــ</blockquote><br />إنه هذا المزج العجيب الذي تمكن منه أورويل تمكن أستاذ<br />فبرغم كون الرواية تحمل عمقا وقوة تجعلها بلا جدال من ‏الطراز ‏الرفيع<br />إلا أنها تصل لجميع نوعيات القراء‏<br />ولا تحتاج فئة معينة كي تفهمها<br />هي موجهة للجميع<br />واستطاعت أن تصل إلى قلوب الجميع<br />لقد صنع المعادلة الصعبة بالفعل‏<br />فلا تدع براعتها السياسية تنسيك أنها رواية أدبية من أعلى ‏طراز<br /><br />::::::::::::::::::::<br /><br /><u>السلطة عند الحزب الحاكم</u>‏<br /><br />اقرأ جيدا ما يقوله أورويل على لسان أوبراين<br /><br />إن الحزب يسعى إلى بلوغ السلطة لذاتها تلك المطلقة. ‏السلطة ‏غاية وليست وسيلة. لا نسعى وراء الثروة ولا الرفاهية ‏ولا ‏العمر المديد ولا السعادة. إننا ندرك أنه ما من أحد يمسك بزمام ‏‏السلطة وهو ينتوي التخلي عنها. فالمرء لا يقيم حكما ‏استبداديا ‏لحماية الثورة وإنما يشعل الثورة لاقامة حكم ‏استبدادي. إن الهدف ‏من الاضطهاد هو الاضطهاد. والهدف ‏من التعذيب هو التعذيب ‏وغاية السلطة هي السلطة. والسلطة ‏هي سلطان على البشر، على ‏أجسامهم وعلى 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class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>YOU. ARE. THE. DEAD.</b> Oh my God. I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak "Double Plus Good."<br /><br />Let me preface this with an apology. If I sound stunningly inarticulate at times in this review, I can't help it. My mind is completely fried.<br /><br /><i>This book is like the dystopian Lord of the Rings</i>, with its richly developed culture and economics, not to mention a fully developed language called Newspeak, or rather more of the anti-language, whose purpose is to limit speech and understanding instead of to enhance and expand it. The world-building is so fully fleshed out and spine-tinglingly terrifying that it's almost as if George travelled to such a place, escaped from it, and then just wrote it all down.<br /><br />I read Fahrenheit 451 over ten years ago in my early teens. At the time, I remember really wanting to read 1984, although I never managed to get my hands on it. I'm almost glad I didn't. Though I would not have admitted it at the time, it would have gone over my head. Or at the very least, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it fully.<br /><br />From the start, the author manages to articulate so many of the things I have thought about but have never been able to find a way to put into words. Even in the first few chapters I found myself having to stop just to quietly consider the words of Mr Orwell.<br /><br />For instance, he talks about how <u>the act of writing itself is a type of time travel</u>. It is communicating with the future. I write these words now, but others may not discover them for hours, weeks, or even years. For me, it is one time. For you the reader, it is an entirely different one.<br /><br />Just the thought that reading and writing could one day be outlawed just shivers my timbers. I related to Winston so much in that way. I would have found a way to read or write.<br /><br /><b>The politics and psychology of this novel run deep</b>. The society in the book has no written laws, but many acts are punishable by death. The slogan of the Party (War is Peace...) is entirely convoluted. Individuality is frowned upon and could lead to being labeled a traitor to the Party.<br /><br />I also remember always wondering why the title was 1984. I was familiar with the concept of Big Brother and wondered why that wasn't the name of the book. In the story, they don't actually know what year it is because so much of the past has been erased by the Ministry of Truth. It could very easily have been 1981. I think that makes the title more powerful. Something as simple as the year or date is unknown to these people. They have to believe it is whatever day that they are told it is. They don't have the right to keep track. Knowledge is powerful. Knowledge is necessary. But according to Big Brother. Ignorance is strength.<br /><br />1984 is written in past tense and has long paragraphs of exposition, recounting events, and explaining the society. These are usually things that distance me from a book and from the characters, but Orwell managed to keep me fully enthralled. He frequently talks in circles and ideas are often repeated but it is still intriguing, none the less. I must admit that I zoned out a bit while Winston was reading from The Book, but I was very fascinated by the culture.<br /><br />Sometimes it seems as though the only way to really experience a characters emotions is through first person. This is not the case with this book, as it is written in third person; yet, I never failed to be encompassed in Winston's feelings. George manages to ensure that the reader never feels disconnected from the events that are unfolding around them, with the exception of the beginning when Winston is just starting to become awakened. I developed a strong attachment to Winston and thrived on living inside his mind. I became a member of the Thought Police, hearing everything, feeling everything and last but not least, (what the Thought Police are not allowed to do) questioning everything.<br /><br />I wasn't expecting a love story in this book, but the relationship between Julia and Winston was truly profound. I enjoyed it even more than I would have expected and thought the moments between them were beautiful. I wasn't sure whether he was going to eventually betray Julia to the Party or not, but I certainly teared up often when it came to their relationship.<br /><br />George has an uncanny ability to get to the base of the human psyche, at times suggesting that we need to be at war for many different reasons, whether it's at war with ourselves or with others. That is one thing I have never understood: why humans feel the need to destroy and control each other.<br /><br />It seems that the main and recurring message in this book is about censorship and brainwashing. One, censorship, is limited and little exposure to ideas of the world; the other, brainwashing, is forced and too much exposure to a certain ideas. Both can be extremely dangerous.<br /><br />Inside the ministry of Truth, he demonstrates the dangers of censorship by showing how the Party has completely rewritten the past by forging and abolishing documents and physical evidence. We also spend quite a bit of time with Winston in the Ministry of Love, where the brainwashing takes place. Those who commit thoughtcrime are tortured until they grow to love and obey Big Brother and serve only the interests of the Party.<br /><br />A common theme occurred to me throughout the book, although it wasn't necessarily referenced consistently. The good of the many is more important than the good of the one. There are so many variables when it comes to this statement and for the most part it seems natural to say, "Of course, the many is more important than the one", but when inside Winston's head, all that I began to care about was his well-being and not if he was able to help disband or conquer the Party and Big Brother. I just wanted him to be at peace. <br /><br />Whether or not the good of all is more important than that of the one, I can't answer. I think most people feel their own happiness is more important than the rest of the world's, and maybe that's part of the problem but it's also human nature. I only wish we could all accept one other regardless of belief and culture and not try to force ways of life onto other people. Maybe I'm naive for thinking that way, but so be it.<br /><br />I almost don't know what to think about this book. I'm not even sure my brain still works, or if it ever worked right at all. This book has a way of making you think you know exactly what you believe about everything and then turning you completely upside down and making you question whether or not you believe anything at all about anything. It's the strangest thing. Hmmm. Doublethink? Perhaps. Perhaps not.<br /><br />Everything about this book is captivating. It's groundbreaking yet at the same time, purely classic. Ahead of its time, yet timeless. From Big Brother to the Thought Police, I was hooked and wanted to know more about it all.<br /><br />Basically, I think everyone should read 1984 at some point. You really have to be in the mood to work at reading it, though. But it's all worth it in the end. It's absolutely incredible and I loved it. I don't re-read many books but this will definitely be one of them. 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tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b> "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." </b> <br><br>In ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the world has divided itself into three totalitarian superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The three superstates always in constant never ending war with each other, and relentlessly and mercilessly purging their own population to align them with their current goals. Winston works in the ‘Ministry of Truth’ every day revising, rewriting and burning history records to match the ever changing version of history dictated by their all-powerful leader, the Big Brother. Secretly though, deep in his heart Winston hates their cruel leadership, and wishes their defeat. A traitor in thought, his life would be forfeit if someone ever finds out, and there are spies everywhere…<br><br>An unforgettable story about the inner strength and inherent weakness of the human spirit, struggling in the most oppressive of worlds. A book that teaches us to love and value freedom, and its costs; to cherish independent thought, and never letting go the fight. I LOVED the secret unfolding relationship with Julia, their quirkiness <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="d8682acd-69d2-4bda-aa67-7b2d5c402510" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="d8682acd-69d2-4bda-aa67-7b2d5c402510">and even their doomed fate</label>; and I can’t express my heartbreak and sadness for the ultimate fate of the ever cheerful and loyal Tom Parsons. Gosh! This was a such a dark and grim story, but overall, enormously invaluable. <br><br>A timeless masterpiece and one of the founding pillars of dystopian fiction. A must read in life, along with <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867118142" rel="nofollow noopener">Fahrenheit 451</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1769689664" rel="nofollow noopener"> Brave New World </a>. The holy trinity of dystopia. Highly Recommendable!<br><br>After a decade or so my memory is a bit hazy but I think I found the ‘Goldstein book’ part quite tedious; hence the four stars. Everything else was just perfect, darkly perfect. I remember enjoying this one immensely back in the day. <20><>Animal farm’ as well, another absolute masterpiece. Boy I really need to read more Orwell one of these days!<br><br>*** The movie Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a fantastic adaptation, greatly capturing much of the book’s essence. Some liberties were taken of course, but overall pretty faithful to the original work. Coincidentally it was filmed in 1984! Can you believe it? Talk about brilliant perfect timing! John Hurt was spectacular, in one of his most iconic and remembered performances ever. May the good man rest in peace. Suzanna Hamilton was magnificent too; and Gregor Fisher as Parsons was totally on point., and boy did I hate O’Brien! Fortunately much of the book of Goldstein tediousness was omitted. Not a perfect film mind you, but a great adaptation. An absolute must watch, even if you didn’t read the book.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1695639619i/34756291.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>-----------------------------------------------<br><u>
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</u>: <br>[1949] [339p] [Dystopia] [Highly Recommendable] ["If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”] [“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”]<br>-----------------------------------------------<br><br>★★★★★ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/864454119" rel="nofollow noopener">Animal Farm </a><br>★★★★☆ <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/863897034" rel="nofollow noopener">1984</a><br><br>-----------------------------------------------<br><br><b> “La guerra es la paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza” </b> <br><br>En un devastado futuro post-apocalíptico, el mundo se ha dividido a sí mismo en tres superpoderes totalitarios: Oceanía, Eurasia y Asia Oriental. Los tres superestados siempre uno contra otro en una constante guerra sin fin, y purgando sin descanso y sin piedad su propia población para alinearlos con sus objetivos actuales. Winston trabaja en el ‘Ministerio de la Verdad’ todos los días revisando, reescribiendo y quemando registros de historia para que se adecuen a la siempre cambiante versión de la historia dictada por su todopoderoso líder, el Gran Hermano. Aunque secretamente, en lo profundo de su corazón Winston odia su cruel liderazgo, y desea su derrota. Un traidor en pensamiento, su vida estaría perdida si alguien llegara a enterarse, y hay espías por doquier…<br><br>Una inolvidable historia sobre la fuerza interna e inherente debilidad del espíritu humano, luchando en el más opresivo de los mundos. Un libro que nos enseña a amar y valorar la libertad, y sus costos; apreciar el pensamiento independiente, y nunca abandonar la lucha. AME el secreto desarrollo de la relación con Julia, su excentricidad <input type="checkbox" class="spoiler__control" aria-label="The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide." onchange="this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);" id="9eb4ba3f-ed6d-4903-81c6-0cf3a7dc1cfa" /><label aria-hidden="true" class="spoiler" for="9eb4ba3f-ed6d-4903-81c6-0cf3a7dc1cfa"> e incluso su fatídico destino</label>; y no puedo ni expresar mi desconsuelo y tristeza por el fin último del fiel y siempre positivo Tom Parsons. ¡Dios! Esta sí que fue una historia oscura y sombría, pero por sobre todo, enormemente invaluable.<br><br>Una obra maestra de todos los tiempos y uno de los pilares fundacionales de la ficción distópica. Una lectura obligada de la vida, junto a <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867118142" rel="nofollow noopener">Fahrenheit 451</a> y <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1769689664" rel="nofollow noopener"> Un Mundo Feliz </a>. La santa trinidad de la distopía. ¡Altamente Recomendable!<br><br>Después de una década o más mi memoria es algo nubosa pero creo que la parte del ‘Libro de Goldstein’ fue bastante tediosa; por eso las cuatro estrellas. Todo lo demás fue simplemente perfecto, oscuramente perfecto. Recuerdo haber disfrutado inmensamente este libro en su día. ‘Rebelión en la granja’ también, otra gigante obra maestra. ¡Creo que necesito leer más de Orwell uno de estos días!<br><br>*** La película (1984) es una fantástica adaptación, capturando enormemente mucha de la esencia del libro. Algunas libertades se tomaron por supuesto, pero dentro de todo bastante fiel a la obra original. ¡Coincidentemente fue filmada en 1984! ¿Increíble no? ¡Brillante y perfecta sincronización! John Hurt estuvo espectacular, en una de sus más icónicas y recordadas actuaciones jamás. Que el buen hombre descanse en paz. Suzanna Hamilton estuvo magnífica también; y Gregor Fisher como Parsons totalmente acorde, ¡y por Dios cómo odié a O’Brien! Afortunadamente mucho del tedioso libro de Goldstein fue omitido. No un filme perfecto debo aclarar, pero sí una genial adaptación. Un absoluto deber de ver en la vida, incluso si no leíste el libro.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1695639619i/34756292._SX540_.jpg" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><br>-----------------------------------------------<br><u>
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</u>: <br>[1949] [339p] [Distopía] [Altamente Recomendable] ["Si pueden obligarme a dejarte de amar... esa sería la verdadera traición."] [“Si quieres guardar un secreto, también debes ocultártelo a ti mismo.”]<br>-----------------------------------------------</["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></["br"]></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=adapted" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">adapted</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=almost-fav" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">almost-fav</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/29005117?shelf=classics" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classics</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">653 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">105 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><br />This book is far from perfect. Its characters lack depth, its rhetoric is sometimes didactic, its plot (well, half of it anyway) was lifted from Zumyatin’s <i>We</i>, and the lengthy Goldstein treatise shoved into the middle is a flaw which alters the structure of the novel like a scar disfigures a face.<br /><br />But in the long run, all that does not matter, because George Orwell got it right.<br /><br />Orwell, a socialist who fought against Franco, watched appalled as the great Soviet experiment was reduced to a totalitarian state, a repressive force equal in evil to Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. He came to realize that ideology in an authoritarian state is nothing but a distraction, a shiny thing made for the public to stare at. He came to realize that the point of control was more control, the point of torture was more torture, that the point of all their "alternative facts" was to fashion a world where people would no longer possess even a word for truth.<br /><br /><i>If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.</i> <br /><br />Orwell’s vision of the world is grim; too grim, some would argue, for it may deprive the faint-hearted among us of hope. But Orwell never wanted to take away hope. No, he wished to shock our hearts into resistance by showing us the authoritarian nightmare achieved: a monument of stasis, a tribute to surveillance and control.<br /><br />Here, in the USA, in 2017, our would-be totalitarians are a long way from stasis. Right now they’re stirring up chaos and confusion, spreading lies and then denying they spread them, hoping to gaslight us into a muddle of helplessness and inactivity. They are trying to destroy a vigorous democracy, and they know it will take much chaos and confusion to bring that democracy down. They hate us most when we march together, when we occupy senate offices and jam the congressional switchboard, when we congregate in pubs and coffee houses and share our outrage and fear, for they know that freedom thrives on solidarity and resistance, and that solidarity and resistance engender love and hope. They much prefer it when we brood in solitude, despairing and alone.<br /><br />Which reminds me...one of the things we should <i>never</i> do is brood about the enemy’s ideology (<i>Is Steve Bannon a Fascist? A Nazi? A Stalinist?</i>), for while we try to discern his “ideological goals,” the enemy is busy pulling on his boots, and his boots are made with hobnails, with heel irons, and equipped with toecaps of steel.<br /><br />Finally, it does not matter who heads up the authoritarian state: a bully boy like Mussolini, a strutting coprophiliac like Hitler, a Napoleonic pig like Stalin, or a brainless dancing bear like Trump. Whatever the current incarnation of “Big Brother” may be, the goal is always the same:<blockquote>
<i>A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.</i>
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2016</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">WAR IS PEACE.<br /><br />FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.<br /><br />IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.<br /><br />Those words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre.<br /><br />1984 describes a Utopia. Not Thomas More's version of Utopia, but this is one is the antithesis, i.e. Dystopia. Imagine living in a country, whose leaders apply a totalitarian system in regulating their citizen, in the most extreme ways, which make Hitler, Mao, Stalin and that old bloke in <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta" title="V for Vendetta by Alan Moore" rel="noopener">V for Vendetta</a> look like sissies.<br /><br />Working, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, thinking, procreating...in short living, all are controlled by the state. Any hint of obedience or dislike can be detected by various state apparatus such as the Thought Police, telescreen, or even your children, who will not hesitate to betray you to the authorities. Even language is modified in such ways that you cannot express yourself, since individualism is a crime.<br /><br />The past is controlled, rewritten into something that will strengthen the incumbent ruler. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. There is no real truth. The "truth" is what the state says it is. Black is white, 2+2=5, if the state says so.<br /><br />The world in 1984 is divided into three states, originated from the ashes from World War II: Oceania (British Isles, the Americas, Pacific, Australia), Eurasia (Europe &amp; Russia), and Eastasia (the rest of it). Continuous warfare between those three (who hold similar ideologies) is required to keep the society's order and peace. Si vis pacem para bellum. That's describes the first slogan.<br /><br />The second slogan, freedom is slavery, means the only way to be free is by letting you lose yourself and to be integrated within the Party. That way, you'll be indestructible and immortal.<br /><br />Ignorance is strength, means the division on high, middle, low classes in society will never be changed. The middle wants to be the high and they'll act "on behalf of the low" to dethrone the high. Afterwards, a new middle class arises, all will change except the low. The high and middle make and uphold the law, the low (proletarian) is just too stupid to revolt. The state maintains its structure by torture, intimidation, violence, and brainwashing.<br /><br />Blimey, Orwell's Animal Farm is already depressing, but 1984 gives "depression" a new meaning, at least for me.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=classics" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classics</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=dark-matter" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">dark-matter</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=dead-trees" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">dead-trees</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">3,080 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">130 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is an open source developer who writes his code offline because his ISP has installed packet sniffers that are regulated by the government under the Patriot Act. It's really for his own protection, though. From, like, terrorists and DVD pirates and stuff. Like every good American, he drinks Coca-Cola and his processed food has desensitized his palate to all but four flavors: sweet, salty-so-that-you-will-drink-more-coca-cola, sweet, and Cooler Ranch!(tm). His benevolent overlords have provided him with some war happening somewhere for some reason so that he, and the rest of the population, can be sure that the government is really in his best interests. In fact, the news always has some story about Paris Hilton or yet another white girl who has been abducted by some evil bastard who is biologically wired by 200,000 years of human evolution to fuck 12-year-olds, but is socially conditioned to be obsessed with sex, yet also to feel guilty about it. This culminates into a distorted view of sexuality, and results in rape and murder, which both make for very good news topics. This, too, is in Winston's best interests because, while fear is healthy, thinking *too* much about his own mortality is strictly taboo, as it may lead to something dangerously insightful, and he might lose his taste for Coca Cola and breast implants. The television also plays on his fears of the unknown by exaggerating stereotypes of minorities and homosexuals, under the guise of celebrating "diversity", but even these images of being ghetto-fabulous and a lisping interior designer actually exist solely to promote racism and homophobia, which also prove to be efficient distractions.<br /><br />For some reason, Winston gets tired of eating recycled Pop Tarts and eating happy pills and pretending to be interested in sports and manufactured news items. But, in the end, they fix him and he's happy again. 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is a very good essay. On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of storytelling. As an essay, the points it makes can be earthshaking. It seems everyone who has so much as gotten a parking ticket thinks he lives in a 1984-dystopia. Every administration that reaches for power, injures civil liberties or collaborates too much with media is accused of playing Big Brother. These are the successes of <i>1984</i>'s paranoia, far outliving its original intent as a battery against where Communism was going (Orwell was a severely disappointed Marxist), and while people who compare their leaders to Big Brother are usually overreaching themselves and speak far away from Orwell's intent and vision, it is a useful catchcloth for dissent. Like so many immortalized books with a social vision, <i>1984</i>'s actual substance is so thin that its ideologies and fear-mongering aspects can be stretched and skewed to suit the readers. If you'd like a better sense of the real world and Orwell's intents, rather than third-hand interpretations of his fiction, then his <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286206" rel="nofollow noopener">Homage to Catalonia</a> is highly recommended.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">1,933 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">174 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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2020</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">This was the book that started my love affair with the dystopian genre. And maybe indirectly influenced my decision to do a politics degree. I was only 12 years old when I first read it but I suddenly saw how politics could be taken and manipulated to tell one hell of a scary and convincing story. I'm a lot more well-read now but, back then, this was a game-changer. I started to think about things differently. 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class="ShelfStatus"><b>Read</b></div><span class="Text Text__body3"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2624868986">December 16, 2018</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">This was an up and down kind of read for me. There were parts that I really enjoyed and parts that I found extremely difficult to maneuver through. I'm glad that I decided to pick it up and give it a go, because it's one that I've been curious about for a long time. I can definitely see why so many people love this book. It explores a lot of things that we see happening in the world today. I can't say I'm leaving it as a massive fan, but I'm sure it's one that I'll continue to think about. </span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">814 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">26 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">هذه الرواية لا يجب أن تصنف أدبا ورواية وفنا وحسب ..<br />كلا .. هي أكبر من ذلك, <br />يجب أن تدرس كحالة مستعصية في علم الاجتماع وعلم السياسة .. !<br /><br />عندما كتب جورج أورويل في الـ1949 كان متشائما لدرجة بعيدة لما سيؤول له العالم بعد 1984<br />نعم، ربما لم يتحقق ما قاله أورويل تماما، لكنه قد حصل بصورة موازية وشبيهة في كثير من المجتمعات الشمولية<br />لنتحدث عن سوريا مثلا :<br /><br />الأخ الكبير : القائد الملهم والرئيس الشاب الدكتور بشار الأسد ..<br />أعضاء الحزب الداخلي: بعض المكونات الرئيسية للنظام<br />أعضاء الحزب الخارجي: حزب البعث<br />العامة: 19 مليون ونصف المليون مواطن سوري<br />أوقيانوسيا: سوريا الأسد<br />الله هو السلطة: الله سوريا بشار وبس<br />التفكير المزدوج: "دولة ممانعة لم تطلق رصاصة واحدة على عدوها الذي وجدت لممانعته" مثلا<br />شاشات الرصد: الهواتف والتجسس على الإنترنت<br />اللغة الجديدة: الإصلاح، الممانعة، التقدم، القومية وغيرها<br />أوبراين: نموذج للمخبر السوري الذي تمنحه روحك وثقتك ليضربك ويهينك<br />غرفة 101: السجن الصحراوي<br />غرف وأقبية وزارة الحب: المقار الأمنية المنتشرة في كل مكان<br />حتى الجهاز ذا القرص موجود باسم بساط الريح<br />وغيرها ..<br /><br />المقصود أن بإمكانك إسقاط الرواية على أي مجتمع شمولي لترى منظورا مشابها لذاك العالم المظلم.<br />لكن النتيجة المختلفة ..<br /><br />هناك بعض الجمل التي يجب أن تحفظ حفظا، لا أن تسجل فقط :<br /><b>الولاء يعني عدم التفكير، بل هو عدم الحاجة للتفكير. الولاء يعني عدم الوعي</b><br />وهذا ما نحفظه وندرسه في المدارس بنفس المصطلح، الولاء للأخ الكبير .. بغض النظر عن تصرفاته ونتائجها وأفكاره وما يقوم به، أي فعلا عدم الوعي ..<br /><br /><b>إن كان هناك من أمل فهو في العامة</b><br />تماما .. فقط أعطهم بعض الوعي وسيصنعون المعجزات ..<br />أي :<br /><b>لكي يثوروا يجب أن يعوا، ولكي يعوا يجب أن يثورووا</b><br /><br />أرجوك .. إن نسيت كل الرواية، فاخرج منها بهذه الثلاث كلمات فقط .. !<br /><b>غاية السلطة هي السلطة</b><br />السلطة وحسب ..<br />ولا تصدقوا كل الخطابات الخالدة والوعود الاقتصادية والسياسية والعسكرية والتنموية ..<br />السلطة للسلطة، لا لخدمة أحد أو شعب أو إنسانية أو قيمة أو خلق أو أي شيء آخر ..<br />لذلك فالسلطة المطلقة دائما مفسدة مطلقة ..<br /><br />مقاطع كتاب غولدشتاين وإن كانت طوباوية إلى حد ما، لكنها صحيحة وأكاديمية . !<br /><br />الوضع الطبيعي يجب أن يسير كما تحدث عنه أورويل، ولو أن صاحب الحانوت - نسيت اسمه - وأوبراين ما كانا مخبرين لنجحت الثورة ..<br />وهذا ما حصل في مصر وتونس، وسيحصل في بقية المجتمعات الشمولية ..<br />بوعي العامة وثورتهم ثم وعيهم مرة أخرى .. </span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">587 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline 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class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”<br><br>This changed the way that I looked at ideologies and changed the way I looked at leadership. Cynical, scathing, and not without its flaws, this is still a stark, haunting glimpse at what could be. <br><br>“War is peace. <br>Freedom is slavery. <br>Ignorance is strength.”<br><br>Chilling. <br><br>** 2018 addendum - it is a testament to great literature that a reader recalls the work years later and this is a book about which I frequently think. The scene that I most often think is when Winston and Julia are captured.<br><br>** 2019 reread - Lost in my memory was to what extent Orwell describes and explains his nightmare. <br>Winston Smith cautiously and surreptitiously learns about the Brotherhood led by Goldstein and then learns all too well about doublethink.<br><br>More than just a cautionary political tale, Orwell has described an ideological abyss into which we must not gaze; a glimpse at authoritarianism power plays to which the Nazis and Soviets never descended. While we can appreciate the reminder to avoid authoritarianism and his prophetic vision, the idea that truth can be arranged through media is perhaps the most relevant for us today. <br><br>*** 2020 reread<br><br>This time around I focused on the human side of this iconic novel – especially the relationship between Winston and Julia. In the past I have somewhat overlooked Julia as a character and thought that Orwell had neglected to form a strong female character, however I now think that she is every bit as strong as Winston and plays a central role in Orwell’s message. <br><br>Whereas Winston hates the party and wants to overturn it, Julia is much more practical and realistic in her rebellion. Winston thinks about the nature of the totalitarianism in abstract ways, Julia uses the terms of doublethink against the party and makes her frank sexuality a systematic rejection of party principle.<br><br>While Orwell was forming a cautionary tale based upon his own experience in writing against authoritarian regimes like Stalin’s, Hitler’s (both actually named in the text) and by extension Moa, Mussolini and Franco, it occurs to me that the irony of Winston’s dystopia is at least to some degree focused on the party members themselves. Winston embodies the use of media as propaganda and to disseminate inaccurate statements that prop up the party. In today’s world we are already seeing this kind of abrogation of truth in favor of party purity.<br><br>Every bit as timeless and relevant as it has ever been. <br><br>*** 2023 reread - <br><br>I think we all have had a situation similar to this: we search on the internet for something and then we start seeing advertisements related to our earlier search. That seems reasonable enough, understandable at least.<br><br>What about this situation though: we have a VERBAL discussion with our spouse, alone in our kitchen, and then we start seeing advertisements about the subject of our speech. <br><br>Wait a minute. OK, I’ve got an Amazon echo, they must have heard us talking.<br><br>Wait a minute: heard us talking? In the “privacy” of our home? And who is they?<br><br>The fear of surveillance has risen to an alarming level in the past few years and we can look back to 1948 and Orwell’s tale as one source of this anxiety.<br><br>I’m in my early 50s as I write this and my generation was raised to be somewhat suspect of governmental intrusions and overreach, taught to be vigilant against totalitarianism. We lived in the time of the Soviet Union and we were taught to be mindful of surveillance and propaganda.<br><br>But what if the surveillance does not come from government? <br>What if what we were taught was itself not wholly correct or accurate?<br><br>A young person recently told me that they had read 1984 in high school in the past 3-4 years so this gave me some hope about the next generation.<br><br>As a press officer in the military, I had a hand, as did Winston Smith, in shaping the news and thus history. If in my little corner of history, I cropped photos, erasing some people’s involvement in an event, destroying the full accurate record of what happened, then extrapolate this ability at official omission and you can begin to see how easily can the truth be tweaked to match a desired narrative.<br><br>This book is as provocative as ever, maybe more so in our strange political climate. More than anything else, this is a thought provoking novel, we are required to think critically about what Orwell states and he invites us, page after page, to think and rethink what we know and how we have been led to know it.<br><br>If we “know” something is true, why do we know that? HOW do we know that truth? Like Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! We are asked to consider our source and to be at least a little skeptical, of everything.<br><br>In this reread, I also made notice of the casual violence that creeps up into Winston’s thoughts. Was Orwell suggesting that the subrogation of Winston’s natural feelings caused an aggressive response in him? Does injustice and tyranny lead to subconscious of animosity?<br><br>Orwell describes how Proles represent 85% of Oceania, we see the propaganda and party policy from the perspective of the party, of a party member who actually initiates the remaking of news and thus history. The Party makes up 15% and the inner party is only about 2%. It occurred to me that I’m a Prole, most of us are on the outside looking in. Like George Carlin said, “it’s a club, and we’re not in it.” Did the Proles care anymore? Did they pay attention to the “news” or were they more like Julia, and only played the part for the surveillance state?<br><br>I’m going to buy copies of this book for the young people in my life.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1596404942i/29907471._SY540_.jpg" width="400" height="400" alt="description" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">561 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">52 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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</a><br>I am a big fan of speculative fiction and in my literary travels I have encountered a myriad of dystopias, anti-utopias and places and societies that make one want to scream and.....<a href="http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s207/sullypython/Goodreads/?action=view&amp;current=MontyPythonRunAway.jpg" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">
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</a> <br>...<i>(with or without contemporaneous loss of bladder and other bodily functions)</i>....<br><br>Simply put, George Orwell's 1984 is unquestionably the most memorable and <b>MOST DISTURBING</b> vision of a world gone <s>mad</s> utterly bat-shit psycho that I have ever experienced. Ever!!! Despite being published back in 1948, I have yet to find a more chilling, nightmarish locale than Orwell's iconic world of <b>BIG BROTHER</b> and <b>INGSOC</b>. The very mention of either of those terms invokes images of Nazis and Soviet gulags in my mind. Yet Orwell's creation is in many ways even more insidious than these real-world bogeymen.<br><br>I first read this book when I was 12 years old in 7th grade as a...get this...class reading assignment. Looking back on it, I have NO IDEA why on Earth we were reading this book at that age but I do recall we spent quite a bit of time discussing it. I wish I could recall the substance of those discussions because I can only imagine the kind of PIERCING INSIGHT that a group of hormonally challenged pre-teens thought up in regards to this book. Needless to say, I think that this is a book that is best appreciated AFTER your first pimple. <br><br>Anyway, I decided to re-read this book recently as an adult in the hopes that I would be able to gain a great appreciation for this classic. Well, the book did more than that. <b>IT ABSOLUTELY FLOORED ME</b>. From the very first sentence, <i>"It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen"</i> to the unforgettable final sentence (which I will not give away here), this story sucked me in, beat the living shit out of me and through me out the other side a hollow, wasted wreck. I know, it doesn't sound very cheery, but it is a life-changing experience. <br><br>I have always thought that one of the best and most important qualities of science fiction is that it frees the author to take the controversial, politically charged issues and trends of the day and create a possible future based on exaggerations of such trends and in so doing present a compelling and critical argument for change. Well NO ONE has ever done a better job than better Orwell in showing the possible nightmare (and thus potential danger) of a society without basic civil liberties and a government with complete and unchallenged control. <br><br>This book is bleak, dreary, frightening, upsetting and absolutely BRILLIANT and one of my "All Time Favorite" novels. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!! 6.0 stars. <br><br>...........<b>REMEMBER, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU</b>.............<br><br><a href="http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s207/sullypython/Goodreads/?action=view&amp;current=ingsoc_450x100-1.gif" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">
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TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted"><b>(Book 547 From 1001 Books) - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell</b><br /><br />Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. <br /><br />The novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. <br /><br />Oceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party. <br /><br />Via the "Thought Police", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as "thoughtcrimes".<br /><br />عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «1984»؛ «۱۹۸۴»؛ «هزار و نهصد وهشتاد و چهار 1984»؛ نویسنده جورج اورول؛ انتشاراتیها (نیلوفر، آزرمیدخت، یاران، اردیبهشت؛ حکایتی دگر، فراموشی؛ ماهانه؛ هنر پارینه؛ انتشارات ولی؛ اختر، سومر، کارگاه، گهبد؛ مجید، و ...)؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش سال 1982میلادی<br /><br />عنوان: 1984 (۱۹۸۴)؛ نویسنده: جورج اورول؛ مترجم: صالح حسینی؛ تهران، نیلوفر، 1361؛ در 272ص؛ چاپ دوم 1364؛ سوم 1367؛ چهارم سال1369؛ شابک: 9644480449؛ پنجم 1374؛ ششم 1376؛ هفتم 1380؛ هشتم 1382؛ یازدهم و دوازدهم 1388؛ شابک789644480447؛ سیزدهم 1389؛ در 312ص؛ چاپ چهاردهم 1395؛ عنوان گسترده: هزار و نهصد وهشتاد و چهار؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20م<br /><br />مترجمین دیگر خانمها و آقایان: «رضا زارع، در 384ص، قزوین آزرمیدخت، 1392»؛ «خدیجه خدایی، در 318ص، تبریز، یاران، 1391»؛ «نرگس حیدری منجیلی، در 352ص، تهران، اردیبهشت، 1389»،؛ «مریم فیروزبخت، در 392ص، تهران، حکایتی دگر، 1389»؛ «زهره زندیه، در 400ص، قزوین، آزرمیدخت»؛ «کتایون شاهوردی، در 465ص، تهران، فراموشی، 1396»؛ «فهیمه رحمتی، در 400ص، تهران، ماهانه، 1394»؛ «امیر سالارکیا، در 384ص؛ تهران، هنر پارینه، 1394»؛ «مرتضی، سعیدی تبار، در 384ص، کرمان، انتشارات ولی، 1393»؛ «محمدعلی جدیری، تهران، اختر، چاپ یازدهم 1392، در 399ص؛ چاپ سیزدهم، تبریز، سومر، 1393، در 283ص»؛ «وحید کیان، تهران، کارگاه فیلم و گرافیک سپاس، 1394، در 375ص»؛ «حمیدرضا بلوچ، در 288ص، تهران، گهبد، 1384، چاپ دوم 1385، سوم 1386، پنجم 1388؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، مجید، 1386؛ در 288ص؛ چاپ هشتم 1392»؛ <br /><br />کتاب «1984» را نویسنده و شاعر «بریتانیا»، «اریک آرتور بلر» با نام مستعار «جرج (جورج) اورول»؛ بنگاشته اند، و تا‌ به‌ امروز به بیش از شصت و پنج زبان گوناگون برگردان، و میلیون‌ها نسخه از آن فروخته شده است؛ با توجه به تصویر روشنی که «اورول» در داستان از نظامهای تمامیت‌خواه ارائه می‌دهند، انگار کنید بیانیه‌ ای سیاسی، برای رد همه ی نظام‌های توتالیتر، و «کمونیستی» است؛ «جهان اورولی، 1984؛» داستان «وینستون اسمیت» را روایت می‌کند؛ فردیکه نماد یک شهروند عادی دگراندیش، در دنیای «اورولی» است؛ رمان در سال 1949میلادی نوشته شده، زمانی‌که جنگ دوم جهانگیر به‌ تازگی پایان یافته بود؛ و جهانیان، خطر تسلیم‌ شدن در پیشگاه دیکتاتورها را، نیک فهمیده بودند؛ در آن زمان، جنگ سرد هنوز آغاز نشده بود، و در دنیای غرب نیز، هنوز روشنفکران بسیاری بودند، که از «کمونیسم» هواداری، و دفاع میکردند؛ در واقع «اورول» کتاب را، برای اخطار به غربیان، برای گوشزد کردن خطر گسترش «کمونیسم»، نوشته اند؛ اما داستان این اثر را، می‌توان به شرایط حاکم بر تمام جوامع تحت سلطه‌ ی حکومت‌ها‌ی استبدادی نیز، گسترش داد؛ داستان در سال 1984میلادی (سی و پنجسال پس از تاریخ نگارش کتاب) در شهر «لندن»، رخ می‌دهد؛ پس از جنگ جهانگیر، حاکمان کشورهای توانمند، به این نتیجه رسیده‌ اند، که اگر جهان، به روند افزایش ثروت ادامه دهد، ارکان جامعه‌ ی طبقاتی، به خطر می‌افتد؛ و حکومتها سرنگون میشوند؛ آن‌ها تنها راه جلوگیری از این امر را، نابود کردن ثروت تولید شده، در جنگی بی‌ پایان می‌بینند؛<br /><br />تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 21/05/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 04/05/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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<b>“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” </b>
</blockquote><br />Just about everything Orwell says in <i>1984</i> is a maniacal truism. In some twisted form, everything reflects the truth of reality. <br /><br />Of course there are exaggerations, though nothing is far from plausibility. We are controlled by our governments, and often in ways we are not consciously aware of. Advertisements, marketing campaigns and political events are all designed for us to elicit a certain response and think in a desired way.<br /><br /><i>1984</i> takes this to the extreme. Cultural brainwashing becomes the chief goal. Assimilation into a passionless (and completely ignorant) mind-set becomes the most effective means of keeping the population down. If you can make a man forget (or deny) his past then he knows of no situation better than his current state: it’s all he knows, so why would he act to change it? Subjugation becomes normality. <br /><br /><blockquote>
<b>“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”</b>
</blockquote><br />Big brother does this by harsh policing, excessive surveillance and language manipulation. The streets are claustrophobic and the people (the workers) can escape nothing. Every action, every word spoken, is recorded. The police are ready to grab anyone who steps remotely out of line. Controlling language is perhaps the most effective thought control method I’ve ever heard of. If language can be broken down into the absolute basics, the simplest and ordinary units, then people can only express themselves on a very minor level. They cannot think beyond their daily tasks because there are no words that connote dreams and fantasy. <br /><br />Step out of line and you are killed, though not before being dragged to room 101 for torture and even stronger methods of thought control. As such through the plot the book depicts a stark transformation, a transformation of man who was once willing to fight and to think but falls into one of the ingenious traps big brother sets for him to expose his criminality. Orwell’s words are frightening because of their eerie parallels with reality. He shows us that we are not so far from big brother as we may think. <br /><br /><b>
<blockquote>“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”</blockquote>
</b><br />Unlike <i>Animal Farm</i> this also leaves much to the imagination. 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My brain feels like sludge, I just want to crawl into a hole and forget all that was engrained into my poor head. Why, oh why did I have the noble idea to read such a monster? How am I supposed to rate such s#@$????? <br />I believe, like some of you that this might have been better had I read it in a class or with a group. Alone it was fingernails to chalkboard miserable.<br /><br />After reading this, it just makes you feel hopeless. <br /><br />Hallelujah, it's over. Never again, Orwell.... Never again!<br /><br />Sidenote: I did a little experiment on facebook about this book... I wrote in my status that I was reading '1984', anybody have any opinions? Almost everyone of the commenters wrote how much they enjoyed this book and how it was one of their favorite books ever. While I am sure that maybe 1 of them was being truthful, I have to doubt atleast half of them..... Now I ask, Why do people lie about certain books? Do they think it makes them look smarter? Cooler? Well-rounded? I just don't get it, if you don't like something you don't like it. It's not neccessary to like it for classic book sake. This might not be making sense to some of you.... maybe you would have to know the people who were commenting, I don't know. But, I am sure all of you have been in a bookstore or talking with a co-worker, etc., and they spout out some well known "hip" book that they just 'adore'. You know this person and it's hard to see them reading period, much less what they are talking about.<br /><br />I guess my point is, don't be a fake book talker. Like it, Yay. Don't like it, Yay. I'm not going to think less of you for not liking something you "SHOULD" like by literary standards.<br /><br />Rant over.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">455 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">90 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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This novel of anticipation, published in 1949, is striking! We follow the destinies of Winston and Julia in this universe, which is reminiscent of ours or what it could become. Of course, it is a fable, but the images strike and remain used for a long time. After reading this cult novel, we look at certain realities differently. It is a detour that is worth it, a must. 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tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">‘<i>If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.</i>’<br /><br />‘<i>History stopped in 1936,</i>’ George Orwell once <a href="https://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1" rel="nofollow noopener">said to</a> fellow author <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/17219.Arthur_Koestler" title="Arthur Koestler" rel="noopener">Arthur Koestler</a>. During his time in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell observed the pervasiveness of propaganda as a pillar upholding authoritarianism, from censored newspapers to lies perpetuated for political convenience and began to fear that ‘<i>the very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.</i>’ This fear presented itself across the whole of his works during his short life, culminating in his famous <i>1984</i> where he warns ‘<i>who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.</i>’ Published in 1949 and written as Orwell was <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-orwell-wrote-1984-while-dying-tuberculosis-180962608/" rel="nofollow noopener">dying from tuberculosis</a>, he didn’t live long to see how <i>1984</i> and his dire warnings against authoritarianism would have a lasting effect even to this day, often being used by all sides of the political spectrum as a cultural touchstone. And while this is mostly owing to the broad criticisms showing how any ideology can become oppressive when hungry for power, it also exemplifies his own dread that words will be twisted and quoted as cudgels to fit a desired purpose as truth is washed away. A harrowing story of dystopia, surveillance, manipulation and resistance being crushed underfoot, <i>1984</i> still chills today with its themes on collective vs individual identity under totalitarianism and controlling all aspects of reality to eliminate all those who step outside the boundaries of orthodoxy.<br /><br />‘<i>We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.</i>’<br /><br />When we read sci-fi, words like “prophetic” and “warning” often get applied. <i>1984</i> continues to remain relevant due to its warnings against irresponsible use of rhetoric, which almost makes the references to it amusing or ironic. Such as the <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA" rel="nofollow noopener">Apple computer commercial</a> in 1984 that uses the novel for the sake of marketing (and what is “marketing” but a euphemism for propaganda) a product that would lead to all sorts of concerns over government surveillance for which people would quote <i>1984</i> in addressing them. I think the term prophetic often frames a book in a way that causes us to consider how close it came true, which seems beside the point because when we look at the ways it <i>didn’t</i>, that often becomes an excuse for delegitimization or ignoring the warning. <br /><br />Born Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal in 1903 and passing in 1950, Orwell’s short life left a lasting legacy from his works like <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm by George Orwell" rel="noopener">Animal Farm</a> being classroom staples in the US and terms like “Orwellian” being blithely applied to anything that brushes against government use of technology and surveillance. Hardly a political cycle goes by in the US without <i>1984</i> coming up. In the US alone in the past decade we saw it returning to the paperback bestseller list under the Trump administration when the term “alternative facts” was being tossed around, and a few years later it was being referenced by the GOP to claim the government was denying an election victory and inventing the January 6th terrorist attack to arrest people. Though with a president making statements like “What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening,” naturally one is reminded of Orwell writing ‘<i>the party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,</i>’ and we are reminded of the power of literature and how we often turn to great works for guidance during uncertain times, though often, as Orwell warned, using it as propaganda shorn of context. Orwell did live long enough to see the novel used improperly, having to put out a statement almost immediately for those who wished to use the novel as an example against the British Labor Party. ‘<i>My recent novel is NOT an on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter),</i>’ he wrote, and an introduction to the book states:<br /><blockquote>‘<i>every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.</i>’</blockquote><br />Which becomes a pretty important distinction, as Orwell believed in better form of governing yet also was suspicious of anyone who would seek out power in order to change it as he writes in the novel ‘<i>we know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.</i>’ I feel <i>1984</i> is best read with an openness to nuance and in good faith, which is often glossed over for the sake of political identifying which is, ironically or not, the exact thing he was warning against. Which is to say, call out problems even if it’s your own “side” and don’t create further divide by abusing rhetoric for the sake of scoring quick political points. <br /><br /> I think there is a tendency when trying to score quick political points that things need to have some sort of unassailable pure aim to them. <i>1984</i> is critical of any regime that seeks to keep power, but narrowing it to a pointed attack against an opponent without seeing how it might apply to your own political "team" (US politics is so much cheering for your "home team" than actually hashing out politics, especially lately, though I also find the whole "both sides" angle to often be used less for establishing nuance than trying to delegitamize any efforts for progress too, but hell who am I to say I'm just as bad as anyone) is more convenient. But even Orwell himself isn’t a “pure” figure, having been an <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/george-orwell-snitch-list-reactionary-grass-blacklist-communists-information-research-department-ird-government-celia-kirwan-a8414066.html" rel="nofollow noopener">informant</a> for the British government delivering a list of names of people suspected of communism (the list includes <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/585.John_Steinbeck" title="John Steinbeck" rel="noopener">John Steinbeck</a> and many have observed that there is a strong presence of gay people on the list which makes many of Orwell’s rather homophobic comments seem all the more menacing). He also, as <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/32720676.A__E__Dyson" title="A. E. Dyson" rel="noopener">A. E. Dyson</a> observed in his book on Orwell, that he ‘<i>had a very English dislike of intellectuals, supposing that anyone willing to wear such a label would be diminished or depraved.</i>’ Which is all neither here nor there, but goes to show how one can create a narrative out of anything, and that is what <i>1984</i> taps into.<br /><br />So let’s move on to the novel and head on down to Room 101. As I said earlier, <i>1984</i> can be read as a culmination of a lot of his themes and ideas across his short career. Warning of totalitarianism arrives everywhere with Orwell, such as <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/9650.Burmese_Days" title="Burmese Days by George Orwell" rel="noopener">Burmese Days</a> when he describes the town as ‘<i>a stifling, stultifying world…which every word and every thought is censored,</i>’ not unlike <i>1984</i> because ‘<i>free speech is unthinkable.</i>’ And one can read in <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/9648.Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying" title="Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell" rel="noopener">Keep the Aspidistra Flying</a>, with Comstock (a name derived from Common and Stock similarly to how the terms in 1984 are often truncated phrases) bemoaning ‘<i>I’m dead, You’re dead. We’re all dead people in a dead world,</i>’ as a precursor to the pivotal moment when Winston and Jane declare ‘<i>we’re dead</i>’ right before being exposed as having been set up. For Orwell, speech and language is very key. Language itself is fallible and can be morphed to meet many purposes—it’s the medium of poets for a reason—and in <i>1984</i> Orwell examines how this can be used to negate truth and establish entirely fictional histories that become generally accepted as a means to upholding power.<br /><br />‘<i>War is peace.<br />Freedom is slavery.<br />Ignorance is strength.</i>’<br /><br />Winston’s job is to rewrite history to fit the purpose of the party. Within his department we find all sorts of nefarious linguistic play designed to control the masses because it is thought that ‘<i>if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.</i>’ We can argue that we see this notion reflected in our modern day, where books exposing history that can be seen as a blemish on the US are banned or dismissed as unpatriotic or trying to rewrite history (the irony in the latter is thick) and many have spoken on the suppression of queer books as an effort to erase the language people need to assess their own identities. What Orwell is looking at is the way language and propaganda is used to control. I enjoy the way he makes creative use of language to compile entire terminologies used by Ingsoc (the party in control that is pretty blatantly a nod to Soviet Russia) to create a propagated history that fits whatever they need, even erasing the history of entire wars to portray other countries as allies and erase the recent memory of them as enemies. <br /><blockquote> ‘<i>Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.</i>’</blockquote><br />To step outside the orthodoxy of the Party’s version of history is to become an enemy of the Party and society and find yourself “vaporized” and erased from history. ‘<i>Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think,</i>’ Orwell writes, ‘<i>Orthodoxy is unconsciousness,</i>’ and when the truth we know conflicts with the truth of the Party, it must be edited. ‘<i>Lies,</i>’ writes <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit" title="Rebecca Solnit" rel="noopener">Rebecca Solnit</a> in her book <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/56557019.Orwell_s_Roses" title="Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit" rel="noopener">Orwell's Roses</a>, ‘<i>the assault on language -- were the necessary foundation for all the other assaults.</i>’ Afterall, ‘<i>the first victim of war is truth, goes the old saying, and a perpetual war against truth undergirds all authoritarianisms.</i>’ “Doublespeak” comes into play here, where one can hold conflicting opinions in their mind and just accept them, and the Party finds that fear is a great tool for ensuring willing erasure of truth. ‘<i>Truth is not a statistic,</i>’ Winston argues, claiming that just because the masses agree doesn’t make it true, though over the novel we see how the power to rewrite “truth” can potentially eviscerate anyone who says otherwise until it becomes the only known “truth.” Returning to <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit" title="Rebecca Solnit" rel="noopener">Rebecca Solnit</a>, she observes:<br /><blockquote>‘<i>To be forced to live with the lies of the powerful is to be forced to live with your own lack of power over the narrative, which in the end can mean lack of power over anything at all. Authoritarians see truth and fact and history as a rival system they must defeat.</i>’</blockquote><br />It is in this way the Party keeps people subservient. ‘<i>A hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance,</i>’ and Winston, upon reading Goldstein’s book (the book serves as an insert into the narrative that provides a LOT of exposition about the world and its structures as well as being a sort of Marxist-esque handbook, though it only offers the <i>how</i> things came to be and never the <i>why</i>, much to Winston’s interest), Winston realizes that the proles (the working class) are the possible solution. However he realized the proles can only revolt if they become conscious of their conditions and only can become conscious of their conditions if they revolt (not a far cry from Orwell’s own statement ‘<i>we cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.</i>’), and worries this may never happen. There is also the issue that a revolution will only put a new Party in power that will inevitably oppress again, just in different ways. <br /><br /> ‘<i>The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.</i>’<br /><br />So without giving anything away because this book is full of surprises (though one may guess if they have read <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We" title="We by Yevgeny Zamyatin" rel="noopener">We</a> by <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/43298.Yevgeny_Zamyatin" title="Yevgeny Zamyatin" rel="noopener">Yevgeny Zamyatin</a>, which Orwell “borrows” heavily from—as does Huxley’s <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World by Aldous Huxley" rel="noopener">Brave New World</a>—and still remains my favorite of the three), across this novel we see a spirit of resistance rise and the forces of power come to meet it with a heavy boot and the power of erasure. While much of the novel focuses on the individual versus the collective, the biggest act of betrayal comes at the end in choosing to protect oneself, the individual, and asking for the harm of others in order to enter the “protection” of the collective Party by erasing any part of oneself outside their orthodoxy. <br /><br />Where once was the belief ‘<i>to die hating them, that was freedom,</i>’ we see ‘<i>in the face of pain there are no heroes</i>’ and fear keeps people in line. Reminding the people of the frailty of being an individual drives them towards compliance. Yet, in another way, we see the collective existing because of the desire of individuals to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else: nobody will revolt out of fear for themselves and in doing so allows the oppression of all to continue. I think this is what <a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/874602.Ursula_K__Le_Guin" title="Ursula K. Le Guin" rel="noopener">Ursula K. Le Guin</a> is getting at when her books look at the need to integrate both the individual and collective by refusing easy binaries and hierarchies. She also, especially in <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed_An_Ambiguous_Utopia" title="The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin" rel="noopener">The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia</a> argues that history can never become stagnant and that, like Orwell argues, an revolution will try to uphold power and oppress leading to the necessity of another revolution. While Le Guin sees this as the natural course of history (the double meaning of revolution as a revolt and a constant turning cycling through) Orwell sees this as a constant erosion of truth due to the weaponization of language as propaganda that will inevitably erase reality in place of a false, collective reality where truth is sent to the grave.<br /><br />‘<i>We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.</i>’<br /><br />One might find <i>1984</i> to be a rather bleak book, but it is also intended as a warning. There are many minor warnings building up to the larger, main point—such as the paperweight symbolizing a past now inaccessible where art could be beautiful for the sake of beauty, as well as symbolizing the frailty of the individual—and that we must take care to use language responsibly lest we hold the door for open propaganda. We can even do this on an individual level, such as not perpetuating misinformation (funny political memes are easy to share but dilute the severity of problems when we poke fun at, say, the looks or mannerisms of a politician instead of focusing on their policies) and not giving in to easy attacks instead of respecting the nuances. And so that's my rough rant on <i>1984</i>, a book that lives on for both its relevance and its political convenience and maybe we should all remember that truth is more important than winning an argument or scoring political edgy points. I fail at it too, we all do, but Orwell reminds us to do better. <br /><br /><b>⅘</b><br /><br />'<i>A nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.</i>'</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=classics" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classics</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=politik" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">politik</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=society" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">society</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">412 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">73 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Update: 1984=2024. FULL DYSTOPIAN PARADIGM FULL STEAM AHEAD<br /><br /><br />Is Orwell turning in his grave? Does his epitaph read. "I fucking warned you! Don't say I never told you so! "<br /><br />Did he have a crystal fucking ball?<br /><br />***<br />If you want truth, go out and see<br /><br />Not like in 1984, Richard Burton on TV<br /><br />Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know<br /><br />Cos' what's going on in the world clearly shows<br /><br />That humanity is programmed through a TV screen<br /><br />Since its conception, its all its ever been<br /><br />News, films, dramas, sports, soaps and cartoons<br /><br />Leaving the masses wide eyed, like Buffoons<br /><br />All the rhetoric and propaganda, oozing about us, every place we look, and go<br /><br />It is everywhere, embedded, enveloping, as people to and fro<br /><br />Screens on buildings, bus stops, train stations, all over the place, fuelling our vices<br /><br />PC's, laptops, google glass, tablets and mobile devices<br /><br />Its in the ether, the air and the subconscious brain<br /><br />Whether one is aware or not, the information leaves its stain<br /><br />Orwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know<br /><br />Perpetual war, a bogeyman, terrorists, must be real, its all a TV show<br /><br />Censored press, hacking phones, spying on the masses<br /><br />Every email, phone call, text message, and google eye glasses<br /><br />Technocratic Dystopia, hunger games, people put into factions<br /><br />Not allowed to speak, monitoring our actions<br /><br />In the name of security, no person is free<br /><br />Unless your blood is Royal, or have connections to the family<br /><br />Or a valued member in Vatican State, purple robes, velvet glove, and iron fist<br /><br />A Freemason, a congressman, senator, president, PM, you get the gist<br /><br />Social engineering, eugenics, deep state, cabals and satanic cults<br /><br />Lodges, temples, hail, thunder and lightening bolts<br /><br />Rapture, ragnarok, jihad, ends of days TV<br /><br />In dramas, films, cartoons, its all we ever see<br /><br />Monsters and bogeymen, cold war, terrorism, and disease, and destruction<br /><br />People trafficking, drug smuggling, arms deals, and child abduction<br /><br />All entertainment, to keep the masses distracted<br /><br />No freedom of information, cos the juicy bits are redacted<br /><br />In the name of security, or for the security of a famous name<br /><br />The whole thing is inverted, its all a game<br /><br />Cos' rules are lures, and laws are walls<br /><br />And all of the people are silly fools<br /><br />Glued to a PC, Mob Phone or TV screen<br /><br />Since its conception, its all its ever been<br /><br />Was Orwell a psychic, or was he in the know<br /><br />One things for certain, it won't be on a TV show<br /><br />By Leo.🐯👍<br /><br /><br />When one is young and immersed into the seas of academia one is asked what one wants to be when one grows up? Which pigeon hole? What label? What career?<br /><br />When a car driver loses control of the vehicle and strays from the path that was ahead, the car careers off the road. One might crash. One is no longer on the journey one originally set out on. One is lost. Off the beaten track.<br /><br />So, when one is a child and asked what career one wants, esoterically it means how can one be swayed or crashed and stopped from what one may want to be when one grows up. The only answer a child should give to their teacher (indoctrinater) is...HAPPY!👍🐯<br /><br />Who are these people? These authorities with all the powers?<br /><br />Deciding what we say, or do, or go, from their Ivory Towers<br /><br />A deviant neighbour moves in next door, behaviour abnormal, and hoarding trash<br /><br />Puts his waste in his shed, a festering, mouldy stash<br /><br />Attracting rats, mice, flies and vermin of all kinds<br /><br />Breaking other residents resolve, distorting their minds<br /><br />For when the community complain about it, every day, week in week out, all the time<br /><br />These authorities point the finger at us, accuse us of a Bloody Hate Crime!<br /><br />Rationale has been replaced, with the word Hate<br /><br />As the lines blur, in this New World Order, is it too late?<br /><br />To change this world? To take a stance? Maybe our last Chance!<br /><br />This world is going to Hell in a Shitstorm! If we don't restore the Earth's Balance. 🐯👍<br /><br /><br /> Politics, or many ticks? Crawling all over society<br /><br /> Police or Po-Lice? Crawling over people who are Free<br /><br />Choose and Lose, for they are not there, for the likes of You and Me<br /><br />Look around and thus, Beware!<br /><br /> These parasites, are only there to Scare<br /><br /> To enforce Order, in the chaos they Create<br /><br /> On behest of the Magicians behind the curtains, the One's that preach Hate. <br /><br />In this Cube, this false construct, this Square. <br /><br />So look around, see the whole, and Beware!<br /><br /> I am full aware of what is going on in this pursuit for a New World Order, an Old World Order, whereby the void between the few and the majority broadens. I am so frustrated how the Sheeple just seem to lap it up. Every day the Inter-NET tightens it's grip or, the World Wide Spider Web lures and traps millions with the Glitsy new smart phone. A cell phone. A smart cell phone that is all singing and dancing...Blah! Blah! Blah! It is called a Cell phone for a reason. Like the Net and the Web. Soon all appliances and mob devices will be Smart. If one does not own one then when 5G is rolled out and the Smart Grid comes into being, one will be left behind. Soon all money paid in wages or commerce will be digital and people will not survive in the New Virtual World unless one is chipped or connected to the 5G network. Understand that money is phony. It is paper or a figure on a PC screen. Soon to be a digital concept, like in the film In Time. Money used to be made of copper, silver and gold. This is when coins actually held value, worth it's weight in gold actually meant something. Then the Templars invented the Banking system, (now they are called Freemasons) a Fiat pyramid system that is illegal yet, no person seems to care. That is the way it is. Only because of ignorance. Acquiescence, Taxation is a fraud. It is theft. Time to wake up before it is too late.<br /><br />Club of Rome, Skull and Bones, Knights of the Realm, Knights of Malta, Rosicrucians, CFR, just a few of the Nefarious institutions. London School Of Economics and the Tavistock Institute. Oh! And the female freemasonic Eastern Star. Maybe I have said too much but, I don't care anymore.<br /><br />That is today's Rant.<br /><br />Everybody should read 1984 and also watch the film. <br /><br />Update:<br /><br />The Sex Pistols, a great British band<br /><br />Fully aware, of the hidden hand<br /><br />The entity, that controls, from most high, looking down<br /><br />Elevated, Godlike, Alpha, The Crown💓👍🐯</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">394 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">23 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">1948: Europe was only starting to recover from the slaughter of World War II. Nazi Germany had been crushed by the Russian army in the East and by the Anglo-American forces in the West. The totalitarian regimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan were defeated. Stalin was going strong. Franco was undisturbed. However, the war was not quite over: the victors, Russia on one side, the USA on the other, were now superpowers staring stonily at each other, their hands loaded with a new and deadly arsenal.<br /><br />Orwell wrote <i>1984</i>, right after <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/7613.Animal_Farm" title="Animal Farm by George Orwell" rel="noopener">Animal Farm</a>, in this ominous post/cold/perpetual-war context, and many aspects of it are steeped in the horrors of tyranny, dehumanisation and disaster. Winston Smith, the wretched protagonist, lives in an alternate history where everyone is under constant surveillance (via “telescreens” and widespread denunciation). A place where propaganda, misinformation, history re-writing, language and thought manipulation, “reality control” (2+2=5) are pervasive tools to make every individual conform with the “Ingsoc” Party’s ideology. The result is a diehard totalitarian state, a perfect hell on earth, where individuality is “vaporised” at the whim of a spectral Big Brother and where even love is impossible.<br /><br />Worth highlighting in the novel: the long interlude about “<i>The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism</i>” (II, 9) — inserted within a slightly incongruous romance episode — and the appendix on “<i>The Principles of Newspeak</i>” — written as if from an unknown point, far in the future, when the madness has eventually subsided. Both sections are stupefying. Yet, the last third of the book is probably one of the worst nightmares in literature: a prolonged torture and brainwashing session that plunges into utter insanity. <br /><br /><a href="https://goodreads.com/author/show/8788.Erich_Fromm" title="Erich Fromm" rel="noopener">Erich Fromm</a>’s afterword (included at the end of the Signet Classics paperback edition) rightly puts <i>1984</i> in perspective with its historical context and other works of speculative fiction, like <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World by Aldous Huxley" rel="noopener">Brave New World</a>. Still, while Huxley’s satire is substantially ironic, almost jovial, the general tone in Orwell’s book is dismal, revolting, at times practically unbearable. At any rate, this novel has become one of the canonical landmarks of political <i>dystopia</i>. Hannah Arendt possibly read <i>1984</i> when writing <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/396931.The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism" title="The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt" rel="noopener">The Origins of Totalitarianism</a> a couple of years after Orwell’s death. Its influence after that, on works like <a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale__The_Handmaid_s_Tale___1_" title="The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood" rel="noopener">The Handmaid’s Tale</a>, is manifest as well.<br /><br />Michael Radford’s heartrending film adaptation is very faithful to the novel. But my favourite film “free-adaptation” remains <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)" rel="nofollow noopener">Brazil</a> by Terry Gilliam. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner" rel="nofollow noopener">Blade Runner</a>, too, borrows much of its 2019 Los Angeles architecture from <i>1984</i>’s Miniluv pyramidal building descriptions.<br /><br />The days of Hitler and Stalin are long gone now. Even so, almost a century later, in a time of political paralysis and corruption, where the most prominent “<i>doubleplusgood duckspeaker</i>” politicians of the world make ample use of a new form of <i>newspeak</i> and <i>doublethink</i>; in a time of threatened privacy and increasing digital surveillance and mindfuck, Orwell’s prophetic warning is as relevant as ever.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=favorites" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">favorites</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">367 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">40 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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Everything I expected, and everything I wanted never happened. I thought that the political aspect was interesting, and while I liked that part, it sadly was not enough to save this book. <br /><br />I’ve been wanting to read this for a while as it’s considered such a staple in dystopian, and in general literature. I’ve even watched a school play which I enjoyed, but of course, that had excluded all the problematic aspects, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.<br /><br />This book takes on an authoritarianism and totalitarian government, propaganda, censorship, surveillance, etc. and I thought it dealt with that well enough, and making connections between current day and this book was an experience, i'll say that. <br /><br />Having known this going in, it seemed like something I would love, and it checked off many boxes of what I was looking for at the time. I even had many quotes I had highlighted for this review that I thought were insightful, but my very smart self returned the ebook without recording them all. Other than the ones I used for my reading updates of course, but most of those were ones I used to complain. <br /><br /><br />But other than that aspect, it felt like a chore to read. So many things that I didn’t like, and so many things that angered me. I’m reading a story, I want to be immersed, and invested, not bored out of my mind. The writing was nothing special, and the story itself was blander than white bread. <br /><br />The info dumps were absolutely painful too. I don’t know how I pushed through, though barely considering it took me almost 20 days to complete. There was one particular infodump that I especially suffered through, one that would serve to bring up some of these political discussions and simultaneously throw up a bunch of world building on me. It took up more than 13% of the entire book. 13 PERCENT. My brain felt all mushy by the end, and I’m not sure I properly processed any of it. What was the reason? It couldn’t have been any less digestible. <br /><br /><br />And then of course we have the characters. I would gladly fist fight Winston, who is our protagonist. I don’t care if some would consider that elder abuse, I would if I could. I have read from such unlikable characters before, but Winston is on another level of terrible. Again, must I ask, what was the reason? Why was he so absolutely horrible? He constantly sexualizes the women he “loves” in disgusting ways, and her youth, and has some weird grudge against anyone that is “pure”, whatever that means. No, sorry, he just hates women in general. Before knowing Julia, his love interest, he imagined raping her, and then slitting her throat for being, what he thought then, celabite. He contemplated smashing her head against the wall. And those weren’t solidary situations. He spends the entire book saying and thinking creepy, disgusting and irritating stuff. I hate him. <br /><br />And then we have Julia, the only female character that spoke more than one line. And her only role is that she is shallow and weak, existing solely for Winston and his pleasure, and his sexual fantasies. And that is all she cares about. Sex. That is all she lives for, and nothing else. She has no thoughts of her own, and her personality is as annoying as can be. It definitely plays into the whole “women are objects” thing, which of course angered me even more. I mean for goodness sake, the misogyny was so strong with this one. As in the overused trope, which in itself promotes that internalized misogyny. Julia outright says how she hates women. Excuse you?<br /><br /><br />And all the other characters didn’t matter, at least to me, so that neither hurt or helped my experience, but the two we knew the most made me want to chuck the book out the window more times than I could count. <br /><br />And Winston and Julia together was even worse than I could ever imagine. Not only do they not have any chemistry, just a lot of possessiveness, but they are already confessing their love never having properly talked before. Winston spends a good chunk of the book hating on her, but then when she confesses her love, suddenly he is in love with her too. Winston even tells Julia about how he wanted to *coughs* murder her, and she just laughs it off as if it is something normal. If only this behavior was condemned, as it should be. <br /><br /><br />This is the most unromantic relationship ever. And obviously I am aware that perhaps I should not judge the book by it’s characters, and their portrayal, as that is not what the story is truly about. That’s not what is important. But don’t you think that if I’m going to be following their story, that I should at least be able to tolerate them? At the very least. I don’t think I am being unerasable. And perhaps I could have overlooked the characters, had I actually been interested in the story itself, but I did not. Little by little, any hope I had was crushed, and I was bored to no extent, so having to deal with an incel on top of it all did not bode well for <br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Final Thoughts:</b> Overall, I dragged through this. It was not a good read. This is so highly praised and I just expected better. I can see where people who like it are coming from in some way, but it was a big no for me. I’ve also been informed that this is basically just a rip off of <i>We</i> by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is a better book, so perhaps I will pick that up in the future. 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href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4544844260">May 22, 2022</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Newspeaking ones way towards manufacturing consent with optional mutilating death by torture after brainwashing, because these pesky citizens just don´t get to the core of the fact that Ingsocs War is peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength police is based on hard, serious humanities such as politics, economics, and sociology.<br /> <br />It´s just reality<br />The irony lies in the fact that it just seems like the nightmarish tale of a forever dictatorship for the privileged people living in Western, brave new world, pseudo democracies, while it´s painful reality for billions of people. The severity may vary, but there are so many regions and states out there in the world where the „I should be silent to avoid secret torture prisons and internment aka death camps“ thought is a part of daily life, an epigenetic standard nutrition kids are born with. <br /> <br />One character struggling makes it even more intense<br />Orwells´choice to just focus on one storyline and the backstory makes it so compelling, while the dismal and depressing atmosphere pulls the reader into big brothers surveillance state with its secret police and euphemistic ministries. <br /> <br />Checklisting how much has become real.<br />Even in democratic countries, there is <br />vast control of information, media, and the consensus of which economic and political doctrines are dogmas that mustn´t be criticized or doubted.<br />Permanent warmongering with, especially the US, invading or supporting war parties. This is combined with<br />Discrediting even not radical, just progressive, alternative political parties, NGOs, and citizen movements that are too defiant. Good old Divide and rule style. Just swallow it, democracy is dead, but at least progressive, critical voices are just ignored and not killed. Thanks to the<br /> <br />Military industrial complex public private partnershipping the last drop out of dysfunctional, intentionally destroyed distributional justice and eco social market economy.<br />A great problem that emerges from the corporations controlling all democratic European and the US governments, probably the Asian, South American ones, Australia, etc. too, is that they actively promote any kind of authoritarian leadership in countries they have economic interests in, thereby actively helping in spreading Big Brother. Exaggeration? Sadly a clear nope, read Chomsky, Klein, Colin Crouch, Ziegler, Shiva Vandana, etc., all the critical, unheard voices denouncing neoliberalism, neoconservatism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Or call me a leftist conspiracist and trust politicians and journalists, far more easygoing. I should really consider to stop committing thoughtcrimes. <br /><br />As if any ethical, democratic Western government (or a conglomerate of all of them) would go full economic warfare mode <br /> <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_warfare">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economi...</a><br />and unleash fictional entities like, let´s just for fun call them, world building mode activated, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organisation, who exploit all weak and poor members while brave new worlding its own population. Or let´s get even more ridiculous and call a fictional superpower United States of Eurasia who loves to step over the final border of actively promoting wars for just economic and geopolitical reasons to directly smash democracies to breed more big brothers since, let´s pick any number, 1945.<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1945%E2%80%931949">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...</a><br />I just love the uchronia and alternative history genre, it´s both so dark and ironic.<br /><br />Similar stuff<br />This is added to my review of Brave new world too.<br />Besides the 2 behemoths, Karel Capeks´ <br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816440.War_with_the_Newts?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=gMlXvpdqsc&amp;rank=1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...</a><br />dark, disturbing masterpiece is possibly one of the best dystopian terror pieces. It´s focusing on the role of big money and industry, of innocence turned into the same evil it suffers, was written in 1936 and satirizes Germans, Japanese, Russians, societies, ideologies, and economy in general and is a timeless memorial against political and economic terrorism and extremism of any kind. <br />Aldous Huxley was Orwells´ college professor and they definitively inspired and mentally inseminated another to form these brave new worlds. <br />Zamyatin Yevgenys´ We is another, historical extremely interesting piece, although just not as famous and fancy as the others, kind of the same problem as with the underappreciated Capek. <br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=g64ln0l7rX&amp;rank=1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...</a><br />An extremely difficult to read one is Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41069.Stand_on_Zanzibar?ac=1&amp;from_search=true&amp;qid=4ptF8n7CDb&amp;rank=1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...</a><br />which comes very close to Huxleys´ ideas, but is much darker.<br />Some more dark and/ or satiric tones:<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392566.The_Space_Merchants">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...</a><br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40450.Market_Forces?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=Mvs2AtRapo&amp;rank=7">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...</a><br />A similar idea by the master of philosophical, satirical sci-fi, the great, unique Lem:<br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733473.The_Futurological_Congress?from_search=true&amp;from_srp=true&amp;qid=7BlvGRJNcJ&amp;rank=1">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...</a><br /> <br />Subjectively, I do find it much more attractive that we wealthy Westerners live in friendly Brave new worlds with fringe pseudo democracy and not in Orwellian or Capekian horror visions as many other poor people around the world do. <br /><br />Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: <br /><a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/NineteenEightyFour">https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...</a></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/78485297?shelf=orwell-george" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">orwell-george</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">29 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">I've put off writing a review for 1984 because it's simply too daunting to do so. I liked 1984 even better after a second reading (bumping it up from a 4 star to a 5 star) because I think that, given the complexity of the future created by Orwell, multiple readings may be needed to take it all in. I thought it was genius the first time and appreciated that genius even more the second time. <br /><br />Orwell had a daunting task: creating a future nearly half a century away from the time period in which he was writing. This future had to be its own complex, independent society, but it also had to be the natural end result of the totalitarianism Orwell witnessed in the communist and socialist regimes of World War II. That's part of the horror of 1984: this future is a recognizable one, even in the 21st century. It's easy to see how those in control can, through manipulation and propaganda, maintain that control simply for the sake of sating their own power hunger. It's easy to say "no one could ever tell me what to think or what to do," but the Party's use of Big Brother, the Thought Police, the Two-Minute Hate, and Doublethink make it easy to see how a person's ability to think independently and discern fiction from reality can be eroded when there is no touchstone to fact. Revising and rewriting the past to make certain that Big Brother and the Party are always correct has effectively eliminated historical accuracy. How can one think and reason in a society where everything is a fabrication?<br /><br />Another facet of 1984 that I find fascinating is the relationship between Winston and Julia. Winston claims Julia is a "rebel from the waist down," engaging in promiscuity and hedonistic indulgences forbidden by the Party. She doesn't care about social injustice or defining "reality"; she only longs for what will make her feel good in the moment and only rebels far enough to get what she wants. By comparison, Winston is an intellectual rebel, constantly worrying over the issues of truth and freedom and the real, unvarnished past, but limited in how far he's willing to push the boundaries (until he meets Julia). Together, they make a complete rebellion--physical and mental, but apart they find themselves impotent to stand up to the Party. <br /><br />A cautionary tale, social commentary, and exemplary example of dystopian fiction, 1984 is one of those perfect novels that not only entertains, but forces one to think about the danger associated with giving any one person or entity too much power or control over our lives--issues well worth consideration in post-9/11 America.<br /><br />Cross posted at <a href="http://viiamanda.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow noopener">This Insignificant Cinder</a></span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=blog" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">blog</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=book-club-made-me-do-it" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">book-club-made-me-do-it</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=kick-ass" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">kick-ass</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">344 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">17 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">i'm not making any point in particular...just that if you have any intention of reading a book about totalitarianism and apocalyptic government, written by a man who believed in democratic socialism as the solution...well, now might be a good time.<br /><br />----<br /><i>full review</i><br /><br />I had been meaning to read this book for a long time, but I finally did it based on a friend’s (hi Dario) insistence. It took me way longer than expected to finish it, and once I managed, said friend requested (in all caps) a text-message review. Here is that unaltered review for your perusal.<br /><br />Message 1: I THOUGHT IT WAS MOSTLY A VESSEL FOR A CERTAIN LINE OF THINKING<br /><br />Message 2: WHICH WAS CARRIED ACROSS IN GOLDSTEIN’S BOOK AND O’BRIEN’S DIALOGUE AT THE END<br /><br />Message 3: AND WHILE THOSE PASSAGES WERE SMART AND WORTHY OF PUBLICATION, THEY ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE AS AN ESSAY<br /><br />Message 4: BUT NOWHERE CLOSE TO AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ IT AS AN ESSAY<br /><br />Message 5: anyway in the end i thought much of it was unnecessary but overall it’s a deeply impressive work<br /><br />Message 6: i was lowkey astonished at how long the goldstein “passages” were<br /><br />Message 7: but some of the ideas there were remarkable<br /><br />Message 8: i found myself skimming at some points, and then i was mad at myself for skimming bc it’s like the whole point of the book, and then i was mad at the author for conveying the most important ideas in such a lazy way<br /><br />Fin.<br /><br />In conclusion, yes, I am the type of nightmare-person who responds to texts by breaking up sentiments into dozens of messages.<br /><br />Sorry.<br /><br />Bottom line: This was good but I wish it had been one or two political opinion papers instead! 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2016</a></span></section><section class="ReviewText"><section class="ReviewText__content" dir="auto"><div class="TruncatedContent" tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">Yes! This book! Amazing! Terrifying, brutal, intricate, prophetic - and, in one big word, GENIUS!<br /><br />This was a reread - the last time I read this was over 20 years ago and I wanted to see if the 5 star rating and its standing in one of my top 3 favorite books held up - and it most certainly does.<br /><br />If this book was written today in the midst of the slew of dystopian novels that come out, it may not have stood out. But, this book was way ahead of its time. Written in a post WWII era where the fears of dictatorships and brutal tyranny were fresh in the minds of the people, this book plays off that fear and adds a dark vision of a potential future.<br /><br />This is where the genius of Orwell comes in. The book is mainly the manifesto of the Party that the main character is seeking to rebell against. But, the ideology and descriptions of this dystopian world are not presented in a boring way - they are fascinating. The fact that Orwell created this world and laid out not only a terrifying political environment, but the rules for the new language they were creating, is beyond amazing. <br /><br />Finally, some of the things he describes sound all too possible in our current world. The controversial elections this week in the US only added to the intensity of this book.<br /><br />Read this! Especially if you are a fan of modern dystopia, you must read the fore fathers - 1984 and Brave New World.<br /><br />And, remember - Big Brother is watching!</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=2016" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">2016</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=audio" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">audio</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=classic" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classic</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">310 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">35 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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tabindex="-1"><div class="TruncatedContent__text TruncatedContent__text--large" tabindex="-1" data-testid="contentContainer"><span class="Formatted">The colour of this book is grey, relentless grey: of skin, sky, food, floor, walls, mind, life itself. Added piquancy comes from general decay, drudgery, exploitation, chronic sickness, and malaise.<br><br><img src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1451476370i/17547680.gif" class="gr-hostedUserImg" loading="lazy"><br><b>Ten Shades of Grey?</b><br><br>There is also sex and (non-sexual) bondage, domination, and torture.<br><br>I don’t expect a dystopian book to be happy reading, but this reread was far grimmer than I remembered it, partly because I read it immediately after the lyrical beauty of another dystopia, <b>Fahrenheit 451</b>, reviewed <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23324785" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a>, and partly because I’ve probably watched Terry Gilliam’s magical film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=nv_sr_1" rel="nofollow noopener">Brazil</a> so many times (though he claimed he had not read the book before making the film).<br><br>Nevertheless, more than 50 years after it was written, 1984 is still powerful, important, and relevant - a feat EL James’ “Fifty Shades” books are unlikely to achieve. On the other hand, I gather Fifty Shades lacks page after page of heavy-handed political theory, so on that criterion, it might be ahead of 1984.<br><br>“<i>If there is hope, it lies in the proles</i>” - they are not any shade of grey.<br><br><b>The novel that inspired this</b><br><br>Orwell admitted to being heavily inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s <b>WE</b>. The plot is very similar, but WE is a more complex combination of utopia and dystopia, and Natasha Randall's translation has a lyrical beauty very different from Orwell's much greyer, darker mood. See my review <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/968642759" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a>.<br><br><b>Have We Reached 1984? (written in 2015)</b><br><br>In some ways, this book is very dated.<br><br>• The underlying <b>misogyny</b> is unchallenged (Winston “<i>disliked nearly all women, and especially the young pretty ones… who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party</i>” and he quickly goes from wanting to rape and murder a woman (he even tells her!) to lusting after “her youthful body desperate for him” and feeling “he had a right to” her). On the other hand, Winston is uncritical - enthusiastic even - about her promiscuity. <br><br>• Related to that - and to Fahrenheit 451 - Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote in a group discussion: "there's a distinct echo in both books of the <b>Garden of Eden</b> story, with Eve tempting Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And in each case, it's a denial of the dogma that this is the original sin."<br><br>• A contemporary writer would probably avoid the lengthy passages of <b>exposition and theory</b> found here (especially ~20 pages of closely typed text from Goldstein’s snappily titled “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”). <br><br>• The post-war <b>Cold War</b> fears are ancient history, and the rise of supposedly Islamic groups like Daesh/ISIS/ISIL pose a different sort of threat. <br><br>BUT, where this is still pertinent, it’s not quite in the ways that Orwell might have expected.<br><br>• We’re blasé about <b>ubiquitous CCTV</b> cameras, and we voluntarily, enthusiastically, surrender details of our interests, activities, location, and friends via our smartphone apps, and Google (see Vox article about how Google Trends reveals the truths that people don't tell researchers, <a href="https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/6/13/15768622/facebook-social-media-seth-stephens-davidowitz-everybody-lies" rel="nofollow noopener">here</a>). <br><br>• We think we’re too smart to fall for lies like those of the Party, but a quick trawl of trending stories on social media demonstrates the untruth of that: <b>people are gullible</b>. The patent nonsense that people believe and share, without ever engaging the weakest of critical faculties is staggering. Most of those are trivial compared with the lies of Big Brother, but they show how easy it is to believe what everyone else believes, regardless of ample evidence to the contrary.<br><br>• We may not have Two Minutes’ Hate or Hate Week, but we certainly have hate figures, and again, social media exacerbates the crowd mentality: “<i>The horrible thing… was not that one was obliged to act a part, but… that it was impossible to avoid joining in</i>”. I’ve not read Jon Ronson’s <b>
<a href="https://goodreads.com/book/show/22571552.So_You_ve_Been_Publicly_Shamed" title="So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson" rel="noopener">So You've Been Publicly Shamed</a>
</b>, but I’m familiar with many of the stories in it (if you’re not, look at the many excellent reviews on GR). Scary stuff.<br><br><b>Update, January 2017, “Alternative Facts”</b><br><br>On 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA. He campaigned in the style of an autocratic, narcissistic demagogue. He had a long track record of flagrantly denying obvious, provable truths, even on trivial matters. The day after numerous photos and other measures showed unimpressive attendance at his inauguration, rather than blame poor weather or practical and financial difficulties of travel, Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary flat-out denied realistic estimates, refused to take questions, and threatened to crack down on the press. The resulting furore led to Kellyanne Conway, a Trump Strategist, defended him, saying he had merely presented <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts" rel="nofollow noopener">"Alternative Facts"</a>. <br><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: .....Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.</i>”<br><br>“<i>If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened – that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? </i>”<br><br>“<i>The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink</i>.”<br><br>“<i>Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.</i>” <br><br><b>UnTruth and UnReality - Three Types</b><br><br>• “The mutability of the past” means history is forever being <s>rewritten</s> corrected for slips, errors, misprints and misquotes, making truth unknowable (Winston is not even sure of his age or year of birth). <br><br>• The doublethink slogans of the Party are another deliberate type of unreality. <br><br>• The third confusion of reality is subtler, in stark contrast to the gritty realism of the rest of the book, and not one I’d really considered on previous readings. It relates to dreams, premonitions, hallucinations, and (in)sanity. Confusion from deprivation and torture is one thing, but there are possible magical-realist aspects. Early on, Winston dreams of meeting O’Brien “in the place where there is no darkness”; later mentions are ambiguous as to whether this is coincidence or something else. A country landscape is also familiar from a dream, and he has a muddled dream about the coral paperweight, his mother and a Jewish woman. Furthermore, there are times in prison when the interrogator’s knowledge seems too precise and secret to be inferred from spies, screens or microphones: can he read Winston’s mind?!<br><br>“<i>Reality exists in the human mind and nowhere else. </i>”<br><br><b>“If there is hope, it lies in the proles”</b><br><br>“<i>The proles were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another… The proles had stayed human. </i>” As unimportant drones, they have freedom denied to Party members and “were beneath suspicion”.<br><br>Conditions in Airstrip One are dire, with food and basic services in very limited supply, but sanity is scarcest of all. “<i>Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. </i>” <br><br>For some, “<i>By lack of understanding they remained sane</i>”. <br><br><b>Three Parts</b><br><br>• The first part sets the scene of Winston’s Smith’s predictable life as an unimportant Party member in Big Brother’s terrifying regime in Airstrip One, ever at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. <br><br>• The second part concerns actions: freedom, courage, love/lust, betrayal. <br><br>• The final part is about the consequences of those actions.<br><br>Again and again, brief, apparently trivial things turn out to be significant.<br><br><b>Newspeak</b><br><br>“<i>But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.</i>” <br><br>“<i>Newspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year</i>”, with the aim of making “<i>thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it</i>”.<br><br>This is really an extreme form of linguistic determinism (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis): the idea that the structure of a language can affect the cognition of those who use it. A very different extrapolation of that is in Ted Chiang's <b>The Story of Your Life</b> (filmed for 2016 as Arrival), reviewed <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1221943078" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a>.<br><br>I thought the linguistic aspect would be something I’d especially enjoy this time, but the key features are familiar and it’s explained in an appendix (which is where most of the lengthy extracts of Goldstein’s book should have gone, imo.) However, it's worth noting that the appendix, written after the main story, is in conventional English. <b>Newspeak is/was no more</b>. <br><br>For insight into 21st Century Political Language, see my review of Steven Pool's excellent <b>Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality</b> from 2006, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23328192" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a>.<br><br><b>Feelings – and Troublesome Questions</b><br><br>This is a grey, cold book. Even the lust and passion it contains is chilling. But it asks timeless and difficult questions about love and loyalty:<br><br>• Would you risk everything - absolutely everything - for a few passionate meetings with someone you may not even love?<br><br>• To serve your ideology, would you lie, murder, steal… throw acid in a child’s face?<br><br>• If you could save your partner by doubling your own pain, would you? Would you really?<br><br>• Is failure of love the only betrayal that counts? (If you tell all, but secretly love, are you loyal?)<br><br><b>Quotes</b><br><br>Some are so well-known, it might seem superfluous to type them here, but that’s exactly why I’ve included them.<br><br>• “It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”<br>• “Although the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.”<br>• “An active man of almost paralysing stupidity.”<br>• “All history was a palimpsest.”<br>• “It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”<br>• “The old man’s memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details.”<br>• “A hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.”<br>• “He would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish.” (In addition to coral in glass.)<br>• “It was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”<br>• A dash of lipstick and <20><><EFBFBD>she had become not only much prettier, but… far more feminine.”<br>• Charrington, the junk shop owner had “vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman”.<br>• “The end was contained in the beginning.”<br>• “Our only true life was in the future.”<br>• “Winston was gelatinous with fatigue… His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its transparency.”<br>• “The best books, he [Winston] perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” No, no, no!<br>• “The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness.”<br>• “Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain… Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.” Hmm. What about emotional pain?<br>• “If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”<br>• “The confession was a formality. The torture was real.”<br>• “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” <br>• “In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic… But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.” Shades of Kafka’s <b>In the Penal Colony</b>, reviewed <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/123462555" rel="nofollow noopener">HERE</a>.<br><br><b>Slogans</b><br><br>• “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”<br>• “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”<br>• “2 + 2 = 5” “Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.”<br>• “It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.”<br>• “We are interested solely in power… Power is not a means, it is an end.”<br>• “Outside man there is nothing… The earth is the centre of the universe.”<br>• “Big Brother is watching.”<br><br>Image source: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow" href="http://www.artsparx.com/images/bl_valuechart.gif">http://www.artsparx.com/images/bl_val...</a><br><br><b>OLD Review from 2008</b><br>The year 1984 may be long passed, but this book is more pertinent than ever: big brother is watching us, history is rewritten (though that has always been true) and free speech is constrained (albeit often under the misused guise of political correctness). <br><br>It's a shame that the humorous TV programme "Room 101" and reality TV franchise "Big Brother" have distracted people from the seriousness of Orwell's message.</span></div><div class=""></div></div></section></section><section class="ReviewCard__tags"><ul class="CollapsableList"><span tabindex="-1"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=classics" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">classics</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=dystopian-apocalyptic" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">dystopian-apocalyptic</span></a><span tabindex="-1"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=film-good-or-better-than-book" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium"><span class="Button__labelItem">film-good-or-better-than-book</span></a></span><span tabindex="-1"></span> <div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--tag Button--medium" aria-label="Show all items in the list"><span class="Button__labelItem">...more</span></button></div></ul></section><footer class="SocialFooter"><div data-testid="stats" class="SocialFooter__statsContainer"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">314 likes</span></button></div><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium Button--subdued"><span class="Button__labelItem">127 comments</span></button></div></div><div data-testid="actions"><div class="SocialFooter__action"><div class="Button__container"><button type="button" class="Button Button--inline Button--medium" aria-label="Review unliked. 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Clearly History has its twisted ways to repeat itself..\u003cbr\u003eA Note that MUST be written in the cover of every edition..\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1398160120i/9377944.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"292\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eلم اتوقع أن هذا التحذير \u003cb\u003e \"إن هذه الرواية تحذير وليست بدليل\"\u003c/b\u003e بهذه الواقعية، مازالت الحكومات العربية تراقب الجميع لحماية أمن الحكام..بينما مازال أمن الأفراد هزيلا..منعدما\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1417385252i/12335398.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"448\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eهي الرواية التي كتبت في 1948 بعبقرية، أرسي بها جورج أورويل قواعد روايات الديستوبيا بحق\u003cbr\u003eوإن كانت مستوحاه من واقع محيط به ولكن التاريخ دائما يجد وسيلة ليتكرر ويزيد وينتشر ويتوغل\u003cbr\u003eهي رواية 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href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/547115723\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThe Maze Runner\u003c/a\u003e و \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/562165570\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eDivergent\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/443741446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eاو تجربه الرائع احمد خالد توفيق المصريه يوتوبيا\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1379775912i/349139.png\" width=\"99\" height=\"144\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380368029i/720545.jpg\" width=\"96\" height=\"144\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798315._SY540_.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798316.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"144\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e \u003cbr\u003eفعليك بالبدء في تلك الروايه الكلاسيكيه للروائي العبقري \"جورج اورويل\" 1984\u003cbr\u003e-فهي مدخل رائع لمثل ذلك النوع من الروايات, ولن تشعر أبدا انها كلاسيكية او قديمة, حتي وان كانت ترجع ل1948...قبل عنوان الرواية بأربعون عاما\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eيجب التنويه انه اذا كنت قراءتها واعجبتك بالفعل فعليك بقراءه تلك الروايات الحديثه ايضا- ..بالأخص العاب المجاعات\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eعقب الحرب العالميه الثانيه وفي وقت صراعات النازيه والشيوعيه ,فتره الاربعينات من القرن الماضي ينقلك المؤلف الي لندن في الديستوبيا التي يتنبأ بها بعد اقل من 40 عاما\u003cbr\u003eففي عام 1984 ستجد ان العالم بعد صراعاته الدمويه النوويه صار مقسما الي 3 قوي رئيسيه تتحكم في العالم بكل ما تحمله كلمه \"تحكم\" من معني\u003cbr\u003eفتتحكم في مسكنك ومأكلك ومشربك,تتحكم في اسلوب حياتك,تتحكم في أراءك,توجهاتك\u003cbr\u003eتتحكم في افكارك,مشاعرك,عواطفك..فتذكر ان الاخ الكبير يراقبك..دائما وابدا\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eهل العالم كله هكذا؟ كيف لك ان تعرف ماذا يحدث في باقي العالم..اصمت واستمع للاخ الكبير فحسب..لا يوجد لك سبيل تواصل مع العالم الخارجي..فكلهم عدو لبلدك\u003cbr\u003eانت منعزل تماما عن العالم..لايصلك من اخباره الا ما يقوله لك الأخ الكبير - هل يبدو ذلك مألوفا لك؟؟\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eستقابل مفاجأت واحداث مثيره, ثوره داخليه بعقلك,عقل وينستون البطل الذي تتعايش معه..كراهيه التمرد والشغف الشديد به\u003cbr\u003eنبذ الحريه التي هي العبوديه..نبذ السلام الذي هو الحرب\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eبالنسبه لي ما يعيب الاحداث شيئا ما هو الجزء المطول من \"كتاب حكم الاقليه\" والذي ذكرني كثيرا بجو كتب الفلسفه السياسيه كتلك التي يقدمها \"يوسف زيدان\" وغيره من مدعي الحنكة السياسية...ولكن يقدمها جورج اورويل هنا بطريقه محايده, مفهومة ومتميزة وبالرغم من الملل الذي اعتراني في الجزء الثاني ربما اغلبه بسبب هذا الجزء والذي بالرغم من انك قد قرأت ملخصه في الجزء الاول من الاحداث الا انك ستجد انه من الصعب ان تتركه دون قراءه\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eويحسب بحق للمؤلف \"تعمقه الشديد\"في احداث روايته ورسمها فعلا كانها عن عالم حقيقي.. \"ذكرني بعبقريه اخري معاصره هي جي كي رولينج عندما تسهب في عرض مقالات من جرائد عالمها الساحر او عرض صفحات عده لاحد كتب ذلك العالم الخيالي الذي ابتكرته\" وهذا ان دل علي شئ فانما يدل عن انك امام روايه ثريه لم يبخل المؤلف بها بشئ ليجعل من الخيال واقعيه فهو ايضا مزج تاريخ اوقيانيا بتاريخ تلك الاحداث العالميه الحقيقيه والمعاصره -وقت صدور الروايه - من نازيه و شيوعيه\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eراعني ايضا ملاحظه وجدتها علي الويكابيديا هو ان \"تبخير الانسان\" واعتباره لم يكن\u003cbr\u003eUnperson\u003cbr\u003eكان امرا حقيقيا واتبعه بتعديل الصور وذلك في الاتحاد السوفييتي في الثلاثينات في صوره لستالين مع نيكولاي يزوف رئيس الشرطه السريه والتي تم تعديلها بعد اعدام الاخير لينسب الفضل لستالين وحده في حمله التطهير الشيوعيه وليكون وحده صاحب الفضل في بناء الاتحاد السوفييتي..اي ان الامر له اصول حقيقيه\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798317.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"128\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798318.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"128\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eوأه من مظهر ستالين نفسه :)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798319.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"205\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1342987546l/15755549.jpg\" width=\"132\" height=\"205\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003cbr\u003eوكما قلت في بدايه الريفيو ان ازدواجيه التفكير قادتني الي الجنون في هذا الريفيو\u003c/u\u003e\u003cbr\u003eفاني من اعجابي الشديد بالروايه كنت اتمني ان لا تنتشر, ولا يتم طبعها ولا قراءتها علي نطاق واسع...فكم من اخ كبير ظهر بعدها ونفذ قليلا او كثيرا من سياسته...سواء كان علي حق وصواب في جزء من سياسته او علي خطأ\u003cbr\u003eكم منا وصل الامر معه لعشق الاخ الكبير وحبه وتوقف عقله وذهنه وكأن هذا الاخ الكبير الذي نصبه لنفسه لا يخطئ؟\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798320.jpg\" width=\"67\" height=\"81\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380408176i/798321.jpg\" width=\"69\" height=\"81\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cimg 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راي شخصي فمابين تلك الصور ناس احترم سياستهم ولكني لا اراهم دائما علي حق ..فهم بشر اولا واخيرا بعضهم اصابوا ويصيبون قليلا و اخطئوا و يخطئون كثيرا و بعضهم العكس\u003c/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eتناقض؟ هذا هو مايسمي بازدواجيه الفكر التي ستجدها في تلك الروايه الرائعه بحق\u003cbr\u003eاقرأها لتتعرف كيف تحكم عقلك في مايعرض عليك من تاريخ..لتحاول التفرقه بين الزيف وبين الحق\u003cbr\u003eلعلنا نستطيع القضاء علي من يسيطر علينا باسم الاخ الكبير..او من يدعي انه جولدشتاين عصره..اقرأها فانها بحق\u003cbr\u003eروايه مرهقه للعقل\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e=======*****=======\u003cbr\u003eالشخصيات\u003cbr\u003e-------\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eوينستون سميث\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eهو من ستتوحد معه خلال احداث الروايه\u003cbr\u003eوهو الاختيار المناسب ,فهو الطبقه المتوسطه-ماتحت النخبة-..فهو يتوافر له الطعام والشراب والمسكن...ليس ادميا او يتناسب مع كونه احد اعضاء الحزب الخارجي وانما علي الاقل ادميا بما فيه الكفايه مقارنه بعامه الشعب ,اللاشئ , هؤلاء الذين يمثلون 85% من السكان,وهو في وضع أأمن منهم بعيدا عن اماكنهم المعرضه للقصف باستمرار\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eولكنه ليس افضل حالا منهم\u003cbr\u003eفقيود حريته اعظم بكثير فهو -عكس عامه الشعب-مراقب 24/7حتي في احلامه واغوار عقله الباطن فيجب ان يكون منضبطا كالمسطره..تاركا افكارك ومشاعرك وعواطفك وتوجهاتك في يد \"الاخ الكبير\"..في يد حزبك الداخلي والذي يمثل 2% من السكان..اسيادك\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eذلك الحزب الداخلي الذي لا تعرف كيف يعيش..هل هو مثلك في تلك المعيشه..معيشه الكفاف او ما دونه؟ بالتاكيد لا, هم ليسوا كعامه الشعب الذين صاروا تحت مستوي الفقر..بل تحت مستوي الحياه نفسها, فلا يلقوا الكفاف..وحياتهم مهدده من وقت لاخر جراء عمليات القصف الحربيه التي لا احد يعرف كنهها بالتحديد\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eبرع المؤلف في رسم شخصيته بطريقه ممتازه,تحولاته ودوافعه وافكاره بل ورسم ذكرياته باتقان وربط بينها وبين الاحداث بطريقه..عبقريه جورج اورويل فعلا ايقنتها برسمه لشخصيته\u003cbr\u003e\u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has 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‏ينتهي عذابك\u003cbr /\u003eإنهم يحيلونك آخر\u003cbr /\u003eليصير عقلك ألة\u003cbr /\u003eمجرد آلة صماء تنفذ الأوامر‏\u003cbr /\u003eوهذا الآخر أو الآلة يصير مقتنعا تمام الاقتناع بكل استبداد كان ‏يناضل لأجل زواله‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإنهم يمسخونك ..‏\u003cbr /\u003eوهذا أشنع ما في الأمر\u003cbr /\u003eهذا أشنع ما في الأمر\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e::::::::::::::::::::\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003eوأدرك أيضاً أن هذا هو ما يعتري الإنسان في كل المواقف ‏‏البطولية والمأساوية\u003cbr /\u003eففي ميدان القتال أو في غرفة التعذيب أو على متن سفينة ‏تغرق\u003cbr /\u003eتغدو القضايا التي تحارب من أجلها طيّ النسيان دائما\u003cbr /\u003eذلك لأن جسدك يظل يتضخم حتى يملأ عليك العالم فلا ترى ‏سواه\u003cbr /\u003eــــــــــــــــ\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eيعمل وينستون سميث في وزارة ‏الحقيقة\u003cbr /\u003eيشاهد ويشارك يوميا في تزوير التاريخ ‏\u003cbr /\u003eكل السجلات تم إتلافها ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوكل كتاب أعيدت كتابته وكل ‏صورة أعيد رسمها\u003cbr /\u003eواسم كل تمثال وشارع وبناية جرى استبداله\u003cbr /\u003eوكل تاريخ جرى تحريفه ‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‏“إننا نقوم بتدمير الكلمات –عشرات بل مئات الكلمات\u003cbr /\u003e \"كل يوم ‏‏يجري تدميرها.. إننا نسلخ اللغة حتى العظام\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eولكن وينستون ارتكب الجريمة العظمى\u003cbr /\u003eفقد بدأ في الشك‏\u003cbr /\u003eوالتفكير في هذا الهراء الذي يعيش بداخله\u003cbr /\u003eلقد تمرد في عقله ثم على أرض الواقع\u003cbr /\u003eيقيم ‏علاقةً مع جوليا المتمردة كذلك‏\u003cbr /\u003eينخرط معها في تنظيم للتآمر على الحزب ‏\u003cbr /\u003eأو هكذا خيل لهما\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eوهكذا يلقى تحت رحمة من لا يرحم\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‏ \"إننا ‏سنسحقك إلى درجة لا يمكنك بعدها أن تعود بحياتك إلى ‏سيرتها ‏الأولى وستحدث لك أشياء لن يمكنك أن تبرأ من ‏آثارها حتى لو ‏عشت ألف عام وأبدا لن تقدر ثانيةً على الشعور ‏بما يشعر به ‏الأحياء\u003cbr /\u003eإن كل شيء سيموت داخلك ولن تعود ‏قادرا على الحب أو ‏الصداقة أو الاستمتاع بالحياة أو الضحك أو ‏حب الاستطلاع أو ‏الشجاعة أو الاستقامة\u003cbr /\u003e \"ستكون أجوف لأننا ‏سنعصرك حتى تصبح ‏خواء من كل شيء ثم نملأك بذواتنا \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eوالتعذيب الرهيب الذي يتعرض له وينستون هو تعذيب ممنهج ‏\u003cbr /\u003e\"نحن لا نحطم أعداءنا فحسب \u003cbr /\u003e‏وإنما نغير ما في أنفسهم\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eلا بطش من أجل الانتقام \u003cbr /\u003eأو تلقين الخارجين عن قوانين الحزب ‏درسا قاسيا\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإنهم لا يقبلون بالطاعة السلبية أو حتى بالخضوع‏ بمعناه المعروف\u003cbr /\u003eفعندما يخضع السجين في النهاية يجب أن يكون ذلك نابعًا من ‏إرادته الحرة‏\u003cbr /\u003eلا يكفي أن ‏‏تقول أن 2 ‏‏+ 2 =5‏\u003cbr /\u003eيجب أن تؤمن بها ‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\"إننا نبدد فكره ونجعله ‏واحدًا منا قبل أن نقتله\u003cbr /\u003eإننا نجري للدماغ غسيلا شاملاً قبل أن ‏نعصف به\u003cbr /\u003eنحن نختلف عن طغاة الماضي الذين يقولون: ‏\u003cbr /\u003eيجب ‏أن لا تفعل ذلك \u003cbr /\u003e‏ وعن الاستبداديين الذين يقولون: ‏\u003cbr /\u003eيجب أن تفعل ‏ذلك\u003cbr /\u003e \"نحن نقول: كن..‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإنهم لا يسمحون لأحد بأن يخرج ‏من سجنهم شهيدا‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإنهم لن ي<><D98A>معوا عنك أبدًا لأنّك ستُزال تمامًا من سجل ‏التاريخ\"\u003cbr /\u003eسنحيلك إلى غاز ثم نطلقك في الهواء. سنجعلك نسيًا ‏منسيًّا. ‏ولن يبقى منك شيء لا اسمًا في سجل ولا أثرًا في ذاكرةٍ ‏حيّة\u003cbr /\u003e‏ستمحى كل علاقةٍ لك بالماضي كما بالمستقبل وستصبح ‏وكأنك ‏لم تكن \"‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cu\u003e‏-كم اصبعا تري يا ونستون ‏..؟\u003cbr /\u003e‏-أربعا.. خمسا ‏\u003cbr /\u003eالرقم الذي تريده ..كل ما أرجوه أن توقف ‏الألم‏...‏\u003c/u\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eتحت وطأة التعذيب يعترف وينستون \"بجرائم\" لم يرتكبها أصلا\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‏وغدا همه الوحيد أن يكتشف ما يريدون أن يعترف به\" ‏\u003cbr /\u003eحتى يبادر إلي الاعتراف قبل أن يلجأ المحققون لحمله علي ‏ذلك‏\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eاغتيال ‏عدد من أعضاء الحزب البارزين ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوتوزيع ‏منشورات تحرض علي الفتنة ‏\u003cbr /\u003eواختلاس أموال عامة وبيع أسرار ‏عسكرية والاشتراك في ‏عمليات التخريب ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوبأنه كان ‏عميلا مأجورا لحكومة استاسيا ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوبأنه كان مؤمنا بالله ومعجبا ‏بالرأسمالية ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوبأنه انزلق الي الشذوذ الجنسي ‏\u003cbr /\u003eوأنه قتل ‏زوجته بالرغم من أنه يعرف مثلما يعرف المحققون ‏أن زوجته لا ‏تزال علي قيد الحياة\u003cbr /\u003e......\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eيمر وينستون بمراحل عدة حتى يصل لمرحلة القبول\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eلقد شعر في غحدى المراحل بأن بقاءه إنسانا \u003cbr /\u003eهو أمر يستحق ‏التضحية من أجله ‏\u003cbr /\u003eحتى لو لم يؤد ذلك إلى نتيجة فإنه يكون قد ‏ألحق بهم الهزيمة‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eوقد مرت عليه أوقات كانت رؤيته للحرية\u003cbr /\u003eهي أن يموت وهو يكرههم‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eولكن ذلك كما نعلم.. لم يدم طويلا\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e::::::::::::::::::::\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cblockquote\u003eكان الذي استهواه من ذلك كله هو تلك الحركة \u003cbr /\u003eالتي نزعت بها ‏‏ثيابها وطوحت بها أرضا \u003cbr /\u003eفبرش<D8B1><D8B4>قتها وعدم مبالاتها بدا كأنها ‏‏تقوض ‏ثقافة كاملة \u003cbr /\u003eوتنقض نظاما فكريا بكليته، كما لو لن الأخ ‏‏الكبير والحزب وشرطة الفكر يمكن أن تذهب أدراج الرياح ‏بحركة ‏بارعة ‏كحركة ذراعها ‏ ‏\u003cbr /\u003eــــــــــ\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإنه هذا المزج العجيب الذي تمكن منه أورويل تمكن أستاذ\u003cbr /\u003eفبرغم كون الرواية تحمل عمقا وقوة تجعلها بلا جدال من ‏الطراز ‏الرفيع\u003cbr /\u003eإلا أنها تصل لجميع نوعيات القراء‏\u003cbr /\u003eولا تحتاج فئة معينة كي تفهمها\u003cbr /\u003eهي موجهة للجميع\u003cbr /\u003eواستطاعت أن تصل إلى قلوب الجميع\u003cbr /\u003eلقد صنع المعادلة الصعبة بالفعل‏\u003cbr /\u003eفلا تدع براعتها السياسية تنسيك أنها رواية أدبية من أعلى ‏طراز\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e::::::::::::::::::::\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cu\u003eالسلطة عند الحزب الحاكم\u003c/u\u003e‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eاقرأ جيدا ما يقوله أورويل على لسان أوبراين\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eإن الحزب يسعى إلى بلوغ السلطة لذاتها تلك المطلقة. ‏السلطة ‏غاية وليست وسيلة. لا نسعى وراء الثروة ولا الرفاهية ‏ولا ‏العمر المديد ولا السعادة. إننا ندرك أنه ما من أحد يمسك بزمام ‏‏السلطة وهو ينتوي التخلي عنها. فالمرء لا يقيم حكما ‏استبداديا ‏لحماية الثورة وإنما يشعل الثورة لاقامة حكم ‏استبدادي. إن الهدف ‏من الاضطهاد هو الاضطهاد. والهدف ‏من التعذيب هو التعذيب ‏وغاية السلطة هي السلطة. والسلطة ‏هي سلطان على البشر، على ‏أجسامهم وعلى عقولهم قبل كل ‏شيء. أما أن يكون لك سلطان ‏على المادة فليس بالأمر الهام إذ ‏نحن نسيطر على المادة سيطرة ‏مطلقة.‏\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e::::::::::::::::::::\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cu\u003eالنهــــاية\u003c/u\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eوينستون يذبحنا بكلماته الأخيرة\u003cbr /\u003eأذكر أنني وقت القراءة الأولى ظللت أردد تلك الجملة ‏\u003cbr /\u003eبلا وعي وبانذهال تام\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. 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ARE. THE. DEAD.\u003c/b\u003e Oh my God. I got the chills so many times toward the end of this book. It completely blew my mind. It managed to surpass my high expectations AND be nothing at all like I expected. Or in Newspeak \"Double Plus Good.\"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLet me preface this with an apology. If I sound stunningly inarticulate at times in this review, I can't help it. My mind is completely fried.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book is like the dystopian Lord of the Rings\u003c/i\u003e, with its richly developed culture and economics, not to mention a fully developed language called Newspeak, or rather more of the anti-language, whose purpose is to limit speech and understanding instead of to enhance and expand it. The world-building is so fully fleshed out and spine-tinglingly terrifying that it's almost as if George travelled to such a place, escaped from it, and then just wrote it all down.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI read Fahrenheit 451 over ten years ago in my early teens. At the time, I remember really wanting to read 1984, although I never managed to get my hands on it. I'm almost glad I didn't. Though I would not have admitted it at the time, it would have gone over my head. Or at the very least, I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it fully.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFrom the start, the author manages to articulate so many of the things I have thought about but have never been able to find a way to put into words. Even in the first few chapters I found myself having to stop just to quietly consider the words of Mr Orwell.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor instance, he talks about how \u003cu\u003ethe act of writing itself is a type of time travel\u003c/u\u003e. It is communicating with the future. I write these words now, but others may not discover them for hours, weeks, or even years. For me, it is one time. For you the reader, it is an entirely different one.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eJust the thought that reading and writing could one day be outlawed just shivers my timbers. I related to Winston so much in that way. I would have found a way to read or write.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe politics and psychology of this novel run deep\u003c/b\u003e. The society in the book has no written laws, but many acts are punishable by death. The slogan of the Party (War is Peace...) is entirely convoluted. Individuality is frowned upon and could lead to being labeled a traitor to the Party.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI also remember always wondering why the title was 1984. I was familiar with the concept of Big Brother and wondered why that wasn't the name of the book. In the story, they don't actually know what year it is because so much of the past has been erased by the Ministry of Truth. It could very easily have been 1981. I think that makes the title more powerful. Something as simple as the year or date is unknown to these people. They have to believe it is whatever day that they are told it is. They don't have the right to keep track. Knowledge is powerful. Knowledge is necessary. But according to Big Brother. Ignorance is strength.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e1984 is written in past tense and has long paragraphs of exposition, recounting events, and explaining the society. These are usually things that distance me from a book and from the characters, but Orwell managed to keep me fully enthralled. He frequently talks in circles and ideas are often repeated but it is still intriguing, none the less. I must admit that I zoned out a bit while Winston was reading from The Book, but I was very fascinated by the culture.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSometimes it seems as though the only way to really experience a characters emotions is through first person. This is not the case with this book, as it is written in third person; yet, I never failed to be encompassed in Winston's feelings. George manages to ensure that the reader never feels disconnected from the events that are unfolding around them, with the exception of the beginning when Winston is just starting to become awakened. I developed a strong attachment to Winston and thrived on living inside his mind. I became a member of the Thought Police, hearing everything, feeling everything and last but not least, (what the Thought Police are not allowed to do) questioning everything.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI wasn't expecting a love story in this book, but the relationship between Julia and Winston was truly profound. I enjoyed it even more than I would have expected and thought the moments between them were beautiful. I wasn't sure whether he was going to eventually betray Julia to the Party or not, but I certainly teared up often when it came to their relationship.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGeorge has an uncanny ability to get to the base of the human psyche, at times suggesting that we need to be at war for many different reasons, whether it's at war with ourselves or with others. That is one thing I have never understood: why humans feel the need to destroy and control each other.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt seems that the main and recurring message in this book is about censorship and brainwashing. One, censorship, is limited and little exposure to ideas of the world; the other, brainwashing, is forced and too much exposure to a certain ideas. Both can be extremely dangerous.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eInside the ministry of Truth, he demonstrates the dangers of censorship by showing how the Party has completely rewritten the past by forging and abolishing documents and physical evidence. We also spend quite a bit of time with Winston in the Ministry of Love, where the brainwashing takes place. Those who commit thoughtcrime are tortured until they grow to love and obey Big Brother and serve only the interests of the Party.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA common theme occurred to me throughout the book, although it wasn't necessarily referenced consistently. The good of the many is more important than the good of the one. There are so many variables when it comes to this statement and for the most part it seems natural to say, \"Of course, the many is more important than the one\", but when inside Winston's head, all that I began to care about was his well-being and not if he was able to help disband or conquer the Party and Big Brother. I just wanted him to be at peace. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhether or not the good of all is more important than that of the one, I can't answer. I think most people feel their own happiness is more important than the rest of the world's, and maybe that's part of the problem but it's also human nature. I only wish we could all accept one other regardless of belief and culture and not try to force ways of life onto other people. Maybe I'm naive for thinking that way, but so be it.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI almost don't know what to think about this book. I'm not even sure my brain still works, or if it ever worked right at all. This book has a way of making you think you know exactly what you believe about everything and then turning you completely upside down and making you question whether or not you believe anything at all about anything. It's the strangest thing. Hmmm. Doublethink? Perhaps. Perhaps not.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverything about this book is captivating. It's groundbreaking yet at the same time, purely classic. Ahead of its time, yet timeless. From Big Brother to the Thought Police, I was hooked and wanted to know more about it all.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBasically, I think everyone should read 1984 at some point. You really have to be in the mood to work at reading it, though. But it's all worth it in the end. It's absolutely incredible and I loved it. I don't re-read many books but this will definitely be one of them. 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Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.\" \u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn ravaged post-apocalyptic future, the world has divided itself into three totalitarian superpowers: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. The three superstates always in constant never ending war with each other, and relentlessly and mercilessly purging their own population to align them with their current goals. Winston works in the ‘Ministry of Truth’ every day revising, rewriting and burning history records to match the ever changing version of history dictated by their all-powerful leader, the Big Brother. Secretly though, deep in his heart Winston hates their cruel leadership, and wishes their defeat. A traitor in thought, his life would be forfeit if someone ever finds out, and there are spies everywhere…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unforgettable story about the inner strength and inherent weakness of the human spirit, struggling in the most oppressive of worlds. A book that teaches us to love and value freedom, and its costs; to cherish independent thought, and never letting go the fight. I LOVED the secret unfolding relationship with Julia, their quirkiness \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"d8682acd-69d2-4bda-aa67-7b2d5c402510\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"d8682acd-69d2-4bda-aa67-7b2d5c402510\"\u003eand even their doomed fate\u003c/label\u003e; and I can’t express my heartbreak and sadness for the ultimate fate of the ever cheerful and loyal Tom Parsons. Gosh! This was a such a dark and grim story, but overall, enormously invaluable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA timeless masterpiece and one of the founding pillars of dystopian fiction. A must read in life, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867118142\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1769689664\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e Brave New World \u003c/a\u003e. The holy trinity of dystopia. Highly Recommendable!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a decade or so my memory is a bit hazy but I think I found the ‘Goldstein book’ part quite tedious; hence the four stars. Everything else was just perfect, darkly perfect. I remember enjoying this one immensely back in the day. <20><>Animal farm’ as well, another absolute masterpiece. Boy I really need to read more Orwell one of these days!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** The movie Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984) is a fantastic adaptation, greatly capturing much of the book’s essence. Some liberties were taken of course, but overall pretty faithful to the original work. Coincidentally it was filmed in 1984! Can you believe it? Talk about brilliant perfect timing! John Hurt was spectacular, in one of his most iconic and remembered performances ever. May the good man rest in peace. Suzanna Hamilton was magnificent too; and Gregor Fisher as Parsons was totally on point., and boy did I hate O’Brien! Fortunately much of the book of Goldstein tediousness was omitted. Not a perfect film mind you, but a great adaptation. An absolute must watch, even if you didn’t read the book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1695639619i/34756291.jpg\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cu\u003e\n \u003cb\u003ePERSONAL NOTE\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/u\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e[1949] [339p] [Dystopia] [Highly Recommendable] [\"If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.”] [“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”]\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★★★★★ \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/864454119\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eAnimal Farm \u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e★★★★☆ \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/863897034\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e1984\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-----------------------------------------------\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e “La guerra es la paz. La libertad es la esclavitud. La ignorancia es la fuerza” \u003c/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEn un devastado futuro post-apocalíptico, el mundo se ha dividido a sí mismo en tres superpoderes totalitarios: Oceanía, Eurasia y Asia Oriental. Los tres superestados siempre uno contra otro en una constante guerra sin fin, y purgando sin descanso y sin piedad su propia población para alinearlos con sus objetivos actuales. Winston trabaja en el ‘Ministerio de la Verdad’ todos los días revisando, reescribiendo y quemando registros de historia para que se adecuen a la siempre cambiante versión de la historia dictada por su todopoderoso líder, el Gran Hermano. Aunque secretamente, en lo profundo de su corazón Winston odia su cruel liderazgo, y desea su derrota. Un traidor en pensamiento, su vida estaría perdida si alguien llegara a enterarse, y hay espías por doquier…\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUna inolvidable historia sobre la fuerza interna e inherente debilidad del espíritu humano, luchando en el más opresivo de los mundos. Un libro que nos enseña a amar y valorar la libertad, y sus costos; apreciar el pensamiento independiente, y nunca abandonar la lucha. AME el secreto desarrollo de la relación con Julia, su excentricidad \u003cinput type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler__control\" aria-label=\"The following text has been marked spoiler. Toggle checkbox to reveal or hide.\" onchange=\"this.labels[0].setAttribute('aria-hidden', !this.checked);\" id=\"9eb4ba3f-ed6d-4903-81c6-0cf3a7dc1cfa\" /\u003e\u003clabel aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"spoiler\" for=\"9eb4ba3f-ed6d-4903-81c6-0cf3a7dc1cfa\"\u003e e incluso su fatídico destino\u003c/label\u003e; y no puedo ni expresar mi desconsuelo y tristeza por el fin último del fiel y siempre positivo Tom Parsons. ¡Dios! Esta sí que fue una historia oscura y sombría, pero por sobre todo, enormemente invaluable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUna obra maestra de todos los tiempos y uno de los pilares fundacionales de la ficción distópica. Una lectura obligada de la vida, junto a \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867118142\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c/a\u003e y \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1769689664\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e Un Mundo Feliz \u003c/a\u003e. La santa trinidad de la distopía. ¡Altamente Recomendable!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespués de una década o más mi memoria es algo nubosa pero creo que la parte del ‘Libro de Goldstein’ fue bastante tediosa; por eso las cuatro estrellas. Todo lo demás fue simplemente perfecto, oscuramente perfecto. Recuerdo haber disfrutado inmensamente este libro en su día. ‘Rebelión en la granja’ también, otra gigante obra maestra. ¡Creo que necesito leer más de Orwell uno de estos días!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** La película (1984) es una fantástica adaptación, capturando enormemente mucha de la esencia del libro. Algunas libertades se tomaron por supuesto, pero dentro de todo bastante fiel a la obra original. ¡Coincidentemente fue filmada en 1984! ¿Increíble no? ¡Brillante y perfecta sincronización! John Hurt estuvo espectacular, en una de sus más icónicas y recordadas actuaciones jamás. Que el buen hombre descanse en paz. Suzanna Hamilton estuvo magnífica también; y Gregor Fisher como Parsons totalmente acorde, ¡y por Dios cómo odié a O’Brien! Afortunadamente mucho del tedioso libro de Goldstein fue omitido. No un filme perfecto debo aclarar, pero sí una genial adaptación. 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Its characters lack depth, its rhetoric is sometimes didactic, its plot (well, half of it anyway) was lifted from Zumyatin’s \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c/i\u003e, and the lengthy Goldstein treatise shoved into the middle is a flaw which alters the structure of the novel like a scar disfigures a face.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut in the long run, all that does not matter, because George Orwell got it right.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell, a socialist who fought against Franco, watched appalled as the great Soviet experiment was reduced to a totalitarian state, a repressive force equal in evil to Fascist Italy or Nazi Germany. He came to realize that ideology in an authoritarian state is nothing but a distraction, a shiny thing made for the public to stare at. He came to realize that the point of control was more control, the point of torture was more torture, that the point of all their \"alternative facts\" was to fashion a world where people would no longer possess even a word for truth.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003eIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.\u003c/i\u003e \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell’s vision of the world is grim; too grim, some would argue, for it may deprive the faint-hearted among us of hope. But Orwell never wanted to take away hope. No, he wished to shock our hearts into resistance by showing us the authoritarian nightmare achieved: a monument of stasis, a tribute to surveillance and control.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHere, in the USA, in 2017, our would-be totalitarians are a long way from stasis. Right now they’re stirring up chaos and confusion, spreading lies and then denying they spread them, hoping to gaslight us into a muddle of helplessness and inactivity. They are trying to destroy a vigorous democracy, and they know it will take much chaos and confusion to bring that democracy down. They hate us most when we march together, when we occupy senate offices and jam the congressional switchboard, when we congregate in pubs and coffee houses and share our outrage and fear, for they know that freedom thrives on solidarity and resistance, and that solidarity and resistance engender love and hope. They much prefer it when we brood in solitude, despairing and alone.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhich reminds me...one of the things we should \u003ci\u003enever\u003c/i\u003e do is brood about the enemy’s ideology (\u003ci\u003eIs Steve Bannon a Fascist? A Nazi? A Stalinist?\u003c/i\u003e), for while we try to discern his “ideological goals,” the enemy is busy pulling on his boots, and his boots are made with hobnails, with heel irons, and equipped with toecaps of steel.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFinally, it does not matter who heads up the authoritarian state: a bully boy like Mussolini, a strutting coprophiliac like Hitler, a Napoleonic pig like Stalin, or a brainless dancing bear like Trump. Whatever the current incarnation of “Big Brother” may be, the goal is always the same:\u003cblockquote\u003e\n \u003ci\u003eA nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/83582?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1493016"},"likeCount":3564,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":312},"User:666003":{"id":666003,"__typename":"User","legacyId":666003,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1606622144i/666003._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1237,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Silvana","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/666003-silvana","contributor":null,"followersCount":1224},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.ORw0OUHBIwnjS6jo5h5XHA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.ORw0OUHBIwnjS6jo5h5XHA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:666003"},"recommendFor":"everyone","updatedAt":1492093215509,"createdAt":1197014989000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1474116085681,"text":"WAR IS PEACE.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFREEDOM IS SLAVERY.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThose words keep sounding in my head since I read this book. Gosh, probably the most haunting not to mention frightening book I've ever read. 1984 should also be included in the horror genre.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e1984 describes a Utopia. Not Thomas More's version of Utopia, but this is one is the antithesis, i.e. Dystopia. Imagine living in a country, whose leaders apply a totalitarian system in regulating their citizen, in the most extreme ways, which make Hitler, Mao, Stalin and that old bloke in \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/5805.V_for_Vendetta\" title=\"V for Vendetta by Alan Moore\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eV for Vendetta\u003c/a\u003e look like sissies.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWorking, eating, drinking, sleeping, talking, thinking, procreating...in short living, all are controlled by the state. Any hint of obedience or dislike can be detected by various state apparatus such as the Thought Police, telescreen, or even your children, who will not hesitate to betray you to the authorities. Even language is modified in such ways that you cannot express yourself, since individualism is a crime.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe past is controlled, rewritten into something that will strengthen the incumbent ruler. Who controls the past, controls the future. Who controls the present, controls the past. There is no real truth. The \"truth\" is what the state says it is. Black is white, 2+2=5, if the state says so.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe world in 1984 is divided into three states, originated from the ashes from World War II: Oceania (British Isles, the Americas, Pacific, Australia), Eurasia (Europe \u0026amp; Russia), and Eastasia (the rest of it). Continuous warfare between those three (who hold similar ideologies) is required to keep the society's order and peace. Si vis pacem para bellum. That's describes the first slogan.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe second slogan, freedom is slavery, means the only way to be free is by letting you lose yourself and to be integrated within the Party. That way, you'll be indestructible and immortal.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIgnorance is strength, means the division on high, middle, low classes in society will never be changed. The middle wants to be the high and they'll act \"on behalf of the low\" to dethrone the high. Afterwards, a new middle class arises, all will change except the low. The high and middle make and uphold the law, the low (proletarian) is just too stupid to revolt. The state maintains its structure by torture, intimidation, violence, and brainwashing.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBlimey, Orwell's Animal Farm is already depressing, but 1984 gives \"depression\" a new meaning, at least for me.","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"dark-matter","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=dark-matter"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"mine-mine-mine","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=mine-mine-mine"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"scary-stuff","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=scary-stuff"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"dead-trees","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=dead-trees"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=sci-fi"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"dick-lit","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/666003?shelf=dick-lit"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10076568"},"likeCount":3080,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":130},"User:228754":{"id":228754,"__typename":"User","legacyId":228754,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1185730357i/228754._UY200_CR38,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":9,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Dave","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/228754-dave","contributor":null,"followersCount":232},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.3H9WBs-ActXDdetorNc22Q":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.3H9WBs-ActXDdetorNc22Q","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:228754"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1473711326411,"createdAt":1185681009000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1390894175000,"text":"In George Orwell's 1984, Winston Smith is an open source developer who writes his code offline because his ISP has installed packet sniffers that are regulated by the government under the Patriot Act. It's really for his own protection, though. From, like, terrorists and DVD pirates and stuff. Like every good American, he drinks Coca-Cola and his processed food has desensitized his palate to all but four flavors: sweet, salty-so-that-you-will-drink-more-coca-cola, sweet, and Cooler Ranch!(tm). His benevolent overlords have provided him with some war happening somewhere for some reason so that he, and the rest of the population, can be sure that the government is really in his best interests. In fact, the news always has some story about Paris Hilton or yet another white girl who has been abducted by some evil bastard who is biologically wired by 200,000 years of human evolution to fuck 12-year-olds, but is socially conditioned to be obsessed with sex, yet also to feel guilty about it. This culminates into a distorted view of sexuality, and results in rape and murder, which both make for very good news topics. This, too, is in Winston's best interests because, while fear is healthy, thinking *too* much about his own mortality is strictly taboo, as it may lead to something dangerously insightful, and he might lose his taste for Coca Cola and breast implants. The television also plays on his fears of the unknown by exaggerating stereotypes of minorities and homosexuals, under the guise of celebrating \"diversity\", but even these images of being ghetto-fabulous and a lisping interior designer actually exist solely to promote racism and homophobia, which also prove to be efficient distractions.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor some reason, Winston gets tired of eating recycled Pop Tarts and eating happy pills and pretending to be interested in sports and manufactured news items. But, in the end, they fix him and he's happy again. 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On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of storytelling. As an essay, the points it makes can be earthshaking. It seems everyone who has so much as gotten a parking ticket thinks he lives in a 1984-dystopia. Every administration that reaches for power, injures civil liberties or collaborates too much with media is accused of playing Big Brother. These are the successes of \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e's paranoia, far outliving its original intent as a battery against where Communism was going (Orwell was a severely disappointed Marxist), and while people who compare their leaders to Big Brother are usually overreaching themselves and speak far away from Orwell's intent and vision, it is a useful catchcloth for dissent. Like so many immortalized books with a social vision, \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e's actual substance is so thin that its ideologies and fear-mongering aspects can be stretched and skewed to suit the readers. 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And maybe indirectly influenced my decision to do a politics degree. I was only 12 years old when I first read it but I suddenly saw how politics could be taken and manipulated to tell one hell of a scary and convincing story. I'm a lot more well-read now but, back then, this was a game-changer. I started to think about things differently. 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There were parts that I really enjoyed and parts that I found extremely difficult to maneuver through. I'm glad that I decided to pick it up and give it a go, because it's one that I've been curious about for a long time. I can definitely see why so many people love this book. It explores a lot of things that we see happening in the world today. I can't say I'm leaving it as a massive fan, but I'm sure it's one that I'll continue to think about. 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gonna ask myself a mandatory question and say nothing more.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhy the fuck had I not read this book before?","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/77602709?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2297717715"},"likeCount":1076,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":36},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.R0OMRfMlZ3QRoWF-Vf5Jsg":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.R0OMRfMlZ3QRoWF-Vf5Jsg","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":10}},"User:4118348":{"id":4118348,"__typename":"User","legacyId":4118348,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1541172717i/4118348._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":128,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"عبيدة غضبان","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/4118348","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.R0OMRfMlZ3QRoWF-Vf5Jsg"},"followersCount":496},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.P8vihjahyQ4WEypNpiJCfA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.P8vihjahyQ4WEypNpiJCfA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:4118348"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1737410515039,"createdAt":1307145229000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1307186975000,"text":"هذه الرواية لا يجب أن تصنف أدبا ورواية وفنا وحسب ..\u003cbr /\u003eكلا .. هي أكبر من ذلك, \u003cbr /\u003eيجب أن تدرس كحالة مستعصية في علم الاجتماع وعلم السياسة .. !\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eعندما كتب جورج أورويل في الـ1949 كان متشائما لدرجة بعيدة لما سيؤول له العالم بعد 1984\u003cbr /\u003eنعم، ربما لم يتحقق ما قاله أورويل تماما، لكنه قد حصل بصورة موازية وشبيهة في كثير من المجتمعات الشمولية\u003cbr /\u003eلنتحدث عن سوريا مثلا :\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eالأخ الكبير : القائد الملهم والرئيس الشاب الدكتور بشار الأسد ..\u003cbr /\u003eأعضاء الحزب الداخلي: بعض المكونات الرئيسية للنظام\u003cbr /\u003eأعضاء الحزب الخارجي: حزب البعث\u003cbr /\u003eالعامة: 19 مليون ونصف المليون مواطن سوري\u003cbr /\u003eأوقيانوسيا: سوريا الأسد\u003cbr /\u003eالله هو السلطة: الله سوريا بشار وبس\u003cbr /\u003eالتفكير المزدوج: \"دولة ممانعة لم تطلق رصاصة واحدة على عدوها الذي وجدت لممانعته\" مثلا\u003cbr /\u003eشاشات الرصد: الهواتف والتجسس على الإنترنت\u003cbr /\u003eاللغة الجديدة: الإصلاح، الممانعة، التقدم، القومية وغيرها\u003cbr /\u003eأوبراين: نموذج للمخبر السوري الذي تمنحه روحك وثقتك ليضربك ويهينك\u003cbr /\u003eغرفة 101: السجن الصحراوي\u003cbr /\u003eغرف وأقبية وزارة الحب: المقار الأمنية المنتشرة في كل مكان\u003cbr /\u003eحتى الجهاز ذا القرص موجود باسم بساط الريح\u003cbr /\u003eوغيرها ..\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eالمقصود أن بإمكانك إسقاط الرواية على أي مجتمع شمولي لترى منظورا مشابها لذاك العالم المظلم.\u003cbr /\u003eلكن النتيجة المختلفة ..\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eهناك بعض الجمل التي يجب أن تحفظ حفظا، لا أن تسجل فقط :\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eالولاء يعني عدم التفكير، بل هو عدم الحاجة للتفكير. الولاء يعني عدم الوعي\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eوهذا ما نحفظه وندرسه في المدارس بنفس المصطلح، الولاء للأخ الكبير .. بغض النظر عن تصرفاته ونتائجها وأفكاره وما يقوم به، أي فعلا عدم الوعي ..\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eإن كان هناك من أمل فهو في العامة\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eتماما .. فقط أعطهم بعض الوعي وسيصنعون المعجزات ..\u003cbr /\u003eأي :\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eلكي يثوروا يجب أن يعوا، ولكي يعوا يجب أن يثورووا\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eأرجوك .. إن نسيت كل الرواية، فاخرج منها بهذه الثلاث كلمات فقط .. !\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eغاية السلطة هي السلطة\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eالسلطة وحسب ..\u003cbr /\u003eولا تصدقوا كل الخطابات الخالدة والوعود الاقتصادية والسياسية والعسكرية والتنموية ..\u003cbr /\u003eالسلطة للسلطة، لا لخدمة أحد أو شعب أو إنسانية أو قيمة أو خلق أو أي شيء آخر ..\u003cbr /\u003eلذلك فالسلطة المطلقة دائما مفسدة مطلقة ..\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eمقاطع كتاب غولدشتاين وإن كانت طوباوية إلى حد ما، لكنها صحيحة وأكاديمية . !\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eالوضع الطبيعي يجب أن يسير كما تحدث عنه أورويل، ولو أن صاحب الحانوت - نسيت اسمه - وأوبراين ما كانا مخبرين لنجحت الثورة ..\u003cbr /\u003eوهذا ما حصل في مصر وتونس، وسيحصل في بقية المجتمعات الشمولية ..\u003cbr /\u003eبوعي العامة وثورتهم ثم وعيهم مرة أخرى .. ","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4118348?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/173483656"},"likeCount":587,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":56},"User:58160628":{"id":58160628,"__typename":"User","legacyId":58160628,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1629292612i/58160628._UY200_CR27,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":626,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Emily (Books with Emily Fox on Youtube)","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/58160628-emily-books-with-emily-fox-on-youtube","contributor":null,"followersCount":68599},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.y7qTJtg1Pj7yVx3H0An_iw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.y7qTJtg1Pj7yVx3H0An_iw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:58160628"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1740197743233,"createdAt":1490788598896,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1490793464560,"text":"I know this is a well loved classic and I definitely enjoyed some parts... but some times I found myself a bit bored :S","rating":3,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/58160628?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946709585"},"likeCount":570,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":22},"User:5253785":{"id":5253785,"__typename":"User","legacyId":5253785,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1495541962i/5253785._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1963,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Lyn","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/5253785-lyn","contributor":null,"followersCount":17251},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.tq_JRV9zqVFGFu7kZ2DNAA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.tq_JRV9zqVFGFu7kZ2DNAA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:5253785"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1739297979856,"createdAt":1312324800000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1690892967652,"text":"“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis changed the way that I looked at ideologies and changed the way I looked at leadership. Cynical, scathing, and not without its flaws, this is still a stark, haunting glimpse at what could be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“War is peace. \u003cbr\u003eFreedom is slavery. \u003cbr\u003eIgnorance is strength.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChilling. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** 2018 addendum - it is a testament to great literature that a reader recalls the work years later and this is a book about which I frequently think. The scene that I most often think is when Winston and Julia are captured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e** 2019 reread - Lost in my memory was to what extent Orwell describes and explains his nightmare. \u003cbr\u003eWinston Smith cautiously and surreptitiously learns about the Brotherhood led by Goldstein and then learns all too well about doublethink.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than just a cautionary political tale, Orwell has described an ideological abyss into which we must not gaze; a glimpse at authoritarianism power plays to which the Nazis and Soviets never descended. While we can appreciate the reminder to avoid authoritarianism and his prophetic vision, the idea that truth can be arranged through media is perhaps the most relevant for us today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** 2020 reread\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis time around I focused on the human side of this iconic novel – especially the relationship between Winston and Julia. In the past I have somewhat overlooked Julia as a character and thought that Orwell had neglected to form a strong female character, however I now think that she is every bit as strong as Winston and plays a central role in Orwell’s message. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhereas Winston hates the party and wants to overturn it, Julia is much more practical and realistic in her rebellion. Winston thinks about the nature of the totalitarianism in abstract ways, Julia uses the terms of doublethink against the party and makes her frank sexuality a systematic rejection of party principle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Orwell was forming a cautionary tale based upon his own experience in writing against authoritarian regimes like Stalin’s, Hitler’s (both actually named in the text) and by extension Moa, Mussolini and Franco, it occurs to me that the irony of Winston’s dystopia is at least to some degree focused on the party members themselves. Winston embodies the use of media as propaganda and to disseminate inaccurate statements that prop up the party. In today’s world we are already seeing this kind of abrogation of truth in favor of party purity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery bit as timeless and relevant as it has ever been. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*** 2023 reread - \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think we all have had a situation similar to this: we search on the internet for something and then we start seeing advertisements related to our earlier search. That seems reasonable enough, understandable at least.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat about this situation though: we have a VERBAL discussion with our spouse, alone in our kitchen, and then we start seeing advertisements about the subject of our speech. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWait a minute. OK, I’ve got an Amazon echo, they must have heard us talking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWait a minute: heard us talking? In the “privacy” of our home? And who is they?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fear of surveillance has risen to an alarming level in the past few years and we can look back to 1948 and Orwell’s tale as one source of this anxiety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m in my early 50s as I write this and my generation was raised to be somewhat suspect of governmental intrusions and overreach, taught to be vigilant against totalitarianism. We lived in the time of the Soviet Union and we were taught to be mindful of surveillance and propaganda.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut what if the surveillance does not come from government? \u003cbr\u003eWhat if what we were taught was itself not wholly correct or accurate?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young person recently told me that they had read 1984 in high school in the past 3-4 years so this gave me some hope about the next generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a press officer in the military, I had a hand, as did Winston Smith, in shaping the news and thus history. If in my little corner of history, I cropped photos, erasing some people’s involvement in an event, destroying the full accurate record of what happened, then extrapolate this ability at official omission and you can begin to see how easily can the truth be tweaked to match a desired narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is as provocative as ever, maybe more so in our strange political climate. More than anything else, this is a thought provoking novel, we are required to think critically about what Orwell states and he invites us, page after page, to think and rethink what we know and how we have been led to know it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf we “know” something is true, why do we know that? HOW do we know that truth? Like Faulkner’s Absalom! Absalom! We are asked to consider our source and to be at least a little skeptical, of everything.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this reread, I also made notice of the casual violence that creeps up into Winston’s thoughts. Was Orwell suggesting that the subrogation of Winston’s natural feelings caused an aggressive response in him? Does injustice and tyranny lead to subconscious of animosity?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrwell describes how Proles represent 85% of Oceania, we see the propaganda and party policy from the perspective of the party, of a party member who actually initiates the remaking of news and thus history. The Party makes up 15% and the inner party is only about 2%. It occurred to me that I’m a Prole, most of us are on the outside looking in. Like George Carlin said, “it’s a club, and we’re not in it.” Did the Proles care anymore? Did they pay attention to the “news” or were they more like Julia, and only played the part for the surveillance state?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’m going to buy copies of this book for the young people in my life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1596404942i/29907471._SY540_.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"description\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5253785?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/193574136"},"likeCount":561,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":52},"User:1413439":{"id":1413439,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1413439,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1311616811i/1413439._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1516,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Stephen","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1413439-stephen","contributor":null,"followersCount":12018},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.l0MrebiMmLlvDfNg6qdShA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.l0MrebiMmLlvDfNg6qdShA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1413439"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1738363793408,"createdAt":1219945168000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1305094837000,"text":"\u003ca href=\"http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s207/sullypython/Goodreads/?action=view\u0026amp;current=ingsoc_450x100.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380316053i/689242.gif\" alt=\"Photobucket\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am a big fan of speculative fiction and in my literary travels I have encountered a myriad of dystopias, anti-utopias and places and societies that make one want to scream and.....\u003ca href=\"http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s207/sullypython/Goodreads/?action=view\u0026amp;current=MontyPythonRunAway.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380316053i/689243.jpg\" alt=\"Photobucket\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n\u003c/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e...\u003ci\u003e(with or without contemporaneous loss of bladder and other bodily functions)\u003c/i\u003e....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSimply put, George Orwell's 1984 is unquestionably the most memorable and \u003cb\u003eMOST DISTURBING\u003c/b\u003e vision of a world gone \u003cs\u003emad\u003c/s\u003e utterly bat-shit psycho that I have ever experienced. Ever!!! Despite being published back in 1948, I have yet to find a more chilling, nightmarish locale than Orwell's iconic world of \u003cb\u003eBIG BROTHER\u003c/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eINGSOC\u003c/b\u003e. The very mention of either of those terms invokes images of Nazis and Soviet gulags in my mind. Yet Orwell's creation is in many ways even more insidious than these real-world bogeymen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI first read this book when I was 12 years old in 7th grade as a...get this...class reading assignment. Looking back on it, I have NO IDEA why on Earth we were reading this book at that age but I do recall we spent quite a bit of time discussing it. I wish I could recall the substance of those discussions because I can only imagine the kind of PIERCING INSIGHT that a group of hormonally challenged pre-teens thought up in regards to this book. Needless to say, I think that this is a book that is best appreciated AFTER your first pimple. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, I decided to re-read this book recently as an adult in the hopes that I would be able to gain a great appreciation for this classic. Well, the book did more than that. \u003cb\u003eIT ABSOLUTELY FLOORED ME\u003c/b\u003e. From the very first sentence, \u003ci\u003e\"It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen\"\u003c/i\u003e to the unforgettable final sentence (which I will not give away here), this story sucked me in, beat the living shit out of me and through me out the other side a hollow, wasted wreck. I know, it doesn't sound very cheery, but it is a life-changing experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have always thought that one of the best and most important qualities of science fiction is that it frees the author to take the controversial, politically charged issues and trends of the day and create a possible future based on exaggerations of such trends and in so doing present a compelling and critical argument for change. Well NO ONE has ever done a better job than better Orwell in showing the possible nightmare (and thus potential danger) of a society without basic civil liberties and a government with complete and unchallenged control. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is bleak, dreary, frightening, upsetting and absolutely BRILLIANT and one of my \"All Time Favorite\" novels. HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!! 6.0 stars. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e...........\u003cb\u003eREMEMBER, BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU\u003c/b\u003e.............\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://s153.photobucket.com/albums/s207/sullypython/Goodreads/?action=view\u0026amp;current=ingsoc_450x100-1.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1380316053i/689244._SY540_.gif\" alt=\"Photobucket\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" 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Sharabiani","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/614778-ahmad-sharabiani","contributor":null,"followersCount":653},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.JeiQGeMjOXnaiC7hlb-zYQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.JeiQGeMjOXnaiC7hlb-zYQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:614778"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1688439019163,"createdAt":1223788356000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1627355359709,"text":"\u003cb\u003e(Book 547 From 1001 Books) - Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel published in 1949 by English author George Orwell. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe novel is set in Airstrip One, formerly Great Britain, a province of the superstate Oceania, whose residents are victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOceania's political ideology, euphemistically named English Socialism is enforced by the privileged, elite Inner Party. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eVia the \"Thought Police\", the Inner Party persecutes individualism and independent thinking, which are regarded as \"thoughtcrimes\".\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eعنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «1984»؛ «۱۹۸۴»؛ «هزار و نهصد وهشتاد و چهار 1984»؛ نویسنده جورج اورول؛ انتشاراتیها (نیلوفر، آزرمیدخت، یاران، اردیبهشت؛ حکایتی دگر، فراموشی؛ ماهانه؛ هنر پارینه؛ انتشارات ولی؛ اختر، سومر، کارگاه، گهبد؛ مجید، و ...)؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش سال 1982میلادی\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eعنوان: 1984 (۱۹۸۴)؛ نویسنده: جورج اورول؛ مترجم: صالح حسینی؛ تهران، نیلوفر، 1361؛ در 272ص؛ چاپ دوم 1364؛ سوم 1367؛ چهارم سال1369؛ شابک: 9644480449؛ پنجم 1374؛ ششم 1376؛ هفتم 1380؛ هشتم 1382؛ یازدهم و دوازدهم 1388؛ شابک789644480447؛ سیزدهم 1389؛ در 312ص؛ چاپ چهاردهم 1395؛ عنوان گسترده: هزار و نهصد وهشتاد و چهار؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان بریتانیا - سده 20م\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eمترجمین دیگر خانمها و آقایان: «رضا زارع، در 384ص، قزوین آزرمیدخت، 1392»؛ «خدیجه خدایی، در 318ص، تبریز، یاران، 1391»؛ «نرگس حیدری منجیلی، در 352ص، تهران، اردیبهشت، 1389»،؛ «مریم فیروزبخت، در 392ص، تهران، حکایتی دگر، 1389»؛ «زهره زندیه، در 400ص، قزوین، آزرمیدخت»؛ «کتایون شاهوردی، در 465ص، تهران، فراموشی، 1396»؛ «فهیمه رحمتی، در 400ص، تهران، ماهانه، 1394»؛ «امیر سالارکیا، در 384ص؛ تهران، هنر پارینه، 1394»؛ «مرتضی، سعیدی تبار، در 384ص، کرمان، انتشارات ولی، 1393»؛ «محمدعلی جدیری، تهران، اختر، چاپ یازدهم 1392، در 399ص؛ چاپ سیزدهم، تبریز، سومر، 1393، در 283ص»؛ «وحید کیان، تهران، کارگاه فیلم و گرافیک سپاس، 1394، در 375ص»؛ «حمیدرضا بلوچ، در 288ص، تهران، گهبد، 1384، چاپ دوم 1385، سوم 1386، پنجم 1388؛ چاپ دیگر تهران، مجید، 1386؛ در 288ص؛ چاپ هشتم 1392»؛ \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eکتاب «1984» را نویسنده و شاعر «بریتانیا»، «اریک آرتور بلر» با نام مستعار «جرج (جورج) اورول»؛ بنگاشته اند، و تا‌ به‌ امروز به بیش از شصت و پنج زبان گوناگون برگردان، و میلیون‌ها نسخه از آن فروخته شده است؛ با توجه به تصویر روشنی که «اورول» در داستان از نظامهای تمامیت‌خواه ارائه می‌دهند، انگار کنید بیانیه‌ ای سیاسی، برای رد همه ی نظام‌های توتالیتر، و «کمونیستی» است؛ «جهان اورولی، 1984؛» داستان «وینستون اسمیت» را روایت می‌کند؛ فردیکه نماد یک شهروند عادی دگراندیش، در دنیای «اورولی» است؛ رمان در سال 1949میلادی نوشته شده، زمانی‌که جنگ دوم جهانگیر به‌ تازگی پایان یافته بود؛ و جهانیان، خطر تسلیم‌ شدن در پیشگاه دیکتاتورها را، نیک فهمیده بودند؛ در آن زمان، جنگ سرد هنوز آغاز نشده بود، و در دنیای غرب نیز، هنوز روشنفکران بسیاری بودند، که از «کمونیسم» هواداری، و دفاع میکردند؛ در واقع «اورول» کتاب را، برای اخطار به غربیان، برای گوشزد کردن خطر گسترش «کمونیسم»، نوشته اند؛ اما داستان این اثر را، می‌توان به شرایط حاکم بر تمام جوامع تحت سلطه‌ ی حکومت‌ها‌ی استبدادی نیز، گسترش داد؛ داستان در سال 1984میلادی (سی و پنجسال پس از تاریخ نگارش کتاب) در شهر «لندن»، رخ می‌دهد؛ پس از جنگ جهانگیر، حاکمان کشورهای توانمند، به این نتیجه رسیده‌ اند، که اگر جهان، به روند افزایش ثروت ادامه دهد، ارکان جامعه‌ ی طبقاتی، به خطر می‌افتد؛ و حکومتها سرنگون میشوند؛ آن‌ها تنها راه جلوگیری از این امر را، نابود کردن ثروت تولید شده، در جنگی بی‌ پایان می‌بینند؛\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eتاریخ بهنگام رسانی 21/05/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 04/05/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی","rating":4,"shelving":null,"likeCount":null,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":null},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.hdf-ngwqycwflyGh5RntIw":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.hdf-ngwqycwflyGh5RntIw","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":12}},"User:2225408":{"id":2225408,"__typename":"User","legacyId":2225408,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1516184827i/2225408._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":1226,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Christy 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media is a cage full of starved rats and all of us have our heads stuck in there now, like it or not.","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/61157160?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1907009152"},"likeCount":465,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":12},"User:27788046":{"id":27788046,"__typename":"User","legacyId":27788046,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1694286584i/27788046._UY200_CR4,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1122,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Sean Barrs ","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27788046-sean-barrs","contributor":null,"followersCount":47263},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.VhS1Kc478xZmXcVaJzq8pA":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.VhS1Kc478xZmXcVaJzq8pA","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:27788046"},"recommendFor":"fahrenheit 451 fans","updatedAt":1740044822254,"createdAt":1528591647375,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1619272375062,"text":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n \u003cb\u003e“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” \u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eJust about everything Orwell says in \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e is a maniacal truism. In some twisted form, everything reflects the truth of reality. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOf course there are exaggerations, though nothing is far from plausibility. We are controlled by our governments, and often in ways we are not consciously aware of. Advertisements, marketing campaigns and political events are all designed for us to elicit a certain response and think in a desired way.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e takes this to the extreme. Cultural brainwashing becomes the chief goal. Assimilation into a passionless (and completely ignorant) mind-set becomes the most effective means of keeping the population down. If you can make a man forget (or deny) his past then he knows of no situation better than his current state: it’s all he knows, so why would he act to change it? Subjugation becomes normality. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n \u003cb\u003e“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”\u003c/b\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBig brother does this by harsh policing, excessive surveillance and language manipulation. The streets are claustrophobic and the people (the workers) can escape nothing. Every action, every word spoken, is recorded. The police are ready to grab anyone who steps remotely out of line. Controlling language is perhaps the most effective thought control method I’ve ever heard of. If language can be broken down into the absolute basics, the simplest and ordinary units, then people can only express themselves on a very minor level. They cannot think beyond their daily tasks because there are no words that connote dreams and fantasy. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eStep out of line and you are killed, though not before being dragged to room 101 for torture and even stronger methods of thought control. As such through the plot the book depicts a stark transformation, a transformation of man who was once willing to fight and to think but falls into one of the ingenious traps big brother sets for him to expose his criminality. Orwell’s words are frightening because of their eerie parallels with reality. He shows us that we are not so far from big brother as we may think. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e\n \u003cblockquote\u003e“We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.”\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnlike \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c/i\u003e this also leaves much to the imagination. It’s a much more successful book and one that once it has been read, it certainly cannot be unread.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e___________________________________\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eYou can connect with me on social media via \u003ca href=\"https://linktr.ee/sean.ultra_vegan1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eMy Linktree\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr /\u003e__________________________________","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"4-star-reads","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=4-star-reads"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27788046?shelf=sci-fi"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2418832570"},"likeCount":464,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":21},"User:2705039":{"id":2705039,"__typename":"User","legacyId":2705039,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1453228324i/2705039._UY200_CR50,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":598,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Kristy","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2705039-kristy","contributor":null,"followersCount":94},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.r37uyGIQ64l5lvUIIEuI4Q":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.r37uyGIQ64l5lvUIIEuI4Q","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:2705039"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1740072250270,"createdAt":1252116793000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1287166894000,"text":"Praise the lord and pass the amunition, I am finished with this beast of a book. My brain feels like sludge, I just want to crawl into a hole and forget all that was engrained into my poor head. Why, oh why did I have the noble idea to read such a monster? How am I supposed to rate such s#@$????? \u003cbr /\u003eI believe, like some of you that this might have been better had I read it in a class or with a group. Alone it was fingernails to chalkboard miserable.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAfter reading this, it just makes you feel hopeless. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHallelujah, it's over. Never again, Orwell.... Never again!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSidenote: I did a little experiment on facebook about this book... I wrote in my status that I was reading '1984', anybody have any opinions? Almost everyone of the commenters wrote how much they enjoyed this book and how it was one of their favorite books ever. While I am sure that maybe 1 of them was being truthful, I have to doubt atleast half of them..... Now I ask, Why do people lie about certain books? Do they think it makes them look smarter? Cooler? Well-rounded? I just don't get it, if you don't like something you don't like it. It's not neccessary to like it for classic book sake. This might not be making sense to some of you.... maybe you would have to know the people who were commenting, I don't know. But, I am sure all of you have been in a bookstore or talking with a co-worker, etc., and they spout out some well known \"hip\" book that they just 'adore'. You know this person and it's hard to see them reading period, much less what they are talking about.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI guess my point is, don't be a fake book talker. Like it, Yay. Don't like it, Yay. I'm not going to think less of you for not liking something you \"SHOULD\" like by literary standards.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRant over.","rating":1,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2705039?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70102940"},"likeCount":455,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":90},"User:117399210":{"id":117399210,"__typename":"User","legacyId":117399210,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1739977778i/117399210._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2226,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Luís","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/117399210-lu-s","contributor":null,"followersCount":1133},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.7eBaLTumHzSNctCNs_KgxQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.7eBaLTumHzSNctCNs_KgxQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:117399210"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1739875690220,"createdAt":1604443390536,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1675429973390,"text":"I wanted to understand the origin of the expression \"Big Brother\" associated with our modern world, and I immersed myself in 1984 by George Orwell. This novel of anticipation, published in 1949, is striking! We follow the destinies of Winston and Julia in this universe, which is reminiscent of ours or what it could become. Of course, it is a fable, but the images strike and remain used for a long time. After reading this cult novel, we look at certain realities differently. It is a detour that is worth it, a must. Why did I wait so long to read it?","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"e-4","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=e-4"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"george-orwell","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=george-orwell"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"science-fiction","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=science-fiction"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"politics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=politics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"fantasy","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=fantasy"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"british-literature","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/117399210?shelf=british-literature"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3627724082"},"likeCount":429,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":28},"User:6431467":{"id":6431467,"__typename":"User","legacyId":6431467,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1735525095i/6431467._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1438,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"s.penkevich","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6431467-s-penkevich","contributor":null,"followersCount":12314},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.x7Gy6tntbBR8UFUGbdxpdQ":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.x7Gy6tntbBR8UFUGbdxpdQ","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:6431467"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1740002276252,"createdAt":1688413031800,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1713239737627,"text":"‘\u003ci\u003eIf you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eHistory stopped in 1936,\u003c/i\u003e’ George Orwell once \u003ca href=\"https://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003esaid to\u003c/a\u003e fellow author \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/17219.Arthur_Koestler\" title=\"Arthur Koestler\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eArthur Koestler\u003c/a\u003e. During his time in the Spanish Civil War, Orwell observed the pervasiveness of propaganda as a pillar upholding authoritarianism, from censored newspapers to lies perpetuated for political convenience and began to fear that ‘\u003ci\u003ethe very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world.\u003c/i\u003e’ This fear presented itself across the whole of his works during his short life, culminating in his famous \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e where he warns ‘\u003ci\u003ewho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.\u003c/i\u003e’ Published in 1949 and written as Orwell was \u003ca href=\"https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-orwell-wrote-1984-while-dying-tuberculosis-180962608/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003edying from tuberculosis\u003c/a\u003e, he didn’t live long to see how \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e and his dire warnings against authoritarianism would have a lasting effect even to this day, often being used by all sides of the political spectrum as a cultural touchstone. And while this is mostly owing to the broad criticisms showing how any ideology can become oppressive when hungry for power, it also exemplifies his own dread that words will be twisted and quoted as cudgels to fit a desired purpose as truth is washed away. A harrowing story of dystopia, surveillance, manipulation and resistance being crushed underfoot, \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e still chills today with its themes on collective vs individual identity under totalitarianism and controlling all aspects of reality to eliminate all those who step outside the boundaries of orthodoxy.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWe know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhen we read sci-fi, words like “prophetic” and “warning” often get applied. \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e continues to remain relevant due to its warnings against irresponsible use of rhetoric, which almost makes the references to it amusing or ironic. Such as the \u003ca href=\"https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eApple computer commercial\u003c/a\u003e in 1984 that uses the novel for the sake of marketing (and what is “marketing” but a euphemism for propaganda) a product that would lead to all sorts of concerns over government surveillance for which people would quote \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e in addressing them. I think the term prophetic often frames a book in a way that causes us to consider how close it came true, which seems beside the point because when we look at the ways it \u003ci\u003edidn’t\u003c/i\u003e, that often becomes an excuse for delegitimization or ignoring the warning. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBorn Eric Arthur Blair in Bengal in 1903 and passing in 1950, Orwell’s short life left a lasting legacy from his works like \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm\" title=\"Animal Farm by George Orwell\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c/a\u003e being classroom staples in the US and terms like “Orwellian” being blithely applied to anything that brushes against government use of technology and surveillance. Hardly a political cycle goes by in the US without \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e coming up. In the US alone in the past decade we saw it returning to the paperback bestseller list under the Trump administration when the term “alternative facts” was being tossed around, and a few years later it was being referenced by the GOP to claim the government was denying an election victory and inventing the January 6th terrorist attack to arrest people. Though with a president making statements like “What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening,” naturally one is reminded of Orwell writing ‘\u003ci\u003ethe party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command,\u003c/i\u003e’ and we are reminded of the power of literature and how we often turn to great works for guidance during uncertain times, though often, as Orwell warned, using it as propaganda shorn of context. Orwell did live long enough to see the novel used improperly, having to put out a statement almost immediately for those who wished to use the novel as an example against the British Labor Party. ‘\u003ci\u003eMy recent novel is NOT an on Socialism or on the British Labor Party (of which I am a supporter),\u003c/i\u003e’ he wrote, and an introduction to the book states:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eevery line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhich becomes a pretty important distinction, as Orwell believed in better form of governing yet also was suspicious of anyone who would seek out power in order to change it as he writes in the novel ‘\u003ci\u003ewe know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.\u003c/i\u003e’ I feel \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e is best read with an openness to nuance and in good faith, which is often glossed over for the sake of political identifying which is, ironically or not, the exact thing he was warning against. Which is to say, call out problems even if it’s your own “side” and don’t create further divide by abusing rhetoric for the sake of scoring quick political points. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e I think there is a tendency when trying to score quick political points that things need to have some sort of unassailable pure aim to them. \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e is critical of any regime that seeks to keep power, but narrowing it to a pointed attack against an opponent without seeing how it might apply to your own political \"team\" (US politics is so much cheering for your \"home team\" than actually hashing out politics, especially lately, though I also find the whole \"both sides\" angle to often be used less for establishing nuance than trying to delegitamize any efforts for progress too, but hell who am I to say I'm just as bad as anyone) is more convenient. But even Orwell himself isn’t a “pure” figure, having been an \u003ca href=\"https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/george-orwell-snitch-list-reactionary-grass-blacklist-communists-information-research-department-ird-government-celia-kirwan-a8414066.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003einformant\u003c/a\u003e for the British government delivering a list of names of people suspected of communism (the list includes \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/585.John_Steinbeck\" title=\"John Steinbeck\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eJohn Steinbeck\u003c/a\u003e and many have observed that there is a strong presence of gay people on the list which makes many of Orwell’s rather homophobic comments seem all the more menacing). He also, as \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/32720676.A__E__Dyson\" title=\"A. E. Dyson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eA. E. Dyson\u003c/a\u003e observed in his book on Orwell, that he ‘\u003ci\u003ehad a very English dislike of intellectuals, supposing that anyone willing to wear such a label would be diminished or depraved.\u003c/i\u003e’ Which is all neither here nor there, but goes to show how one can create a narrative out of anything, and that is what \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e taps into.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo let’s move on to the novel and head on down to Room 101. As I said earlier, \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e can be read as a culmination of a lot of his themes and ideas across his short career. Warning of totalitarianism arrives everywhere with Orwell, such as \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/9650.Burmese_Days\" title=\"Burmese Days by George Orwell\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBurmese Days\u003c/a\u003e when he describes the town as ‘\u003ci\u003ea stifling, stultifying world…which every word and every thought is censored,\u003c/i\u003e’ not unlike \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e because ‘\u003ci\u003efree speech is unthinkable.\u003c/i\u003e’ And one can read in \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/9648.Keep_the_Aspidistra_Flying\" title=\"Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eKeep the Aspidistra Flying\u003c/a\u003e, with Comstock (a name derived from Common and Stock similarly to how the terms in 1984 are often truncated phrases) bemoaning ‘\u003ci\u003eI’m dead, You’re dead. We’re all dead people in a dead world,\u003c/i\u003e’ as a precursor to the pivotal moment when Winston and Jane declare ‘\u003ci\u003ewe’re dead\u003c/i\u003e’ right before being exposed as having been set up. For Orwell, speech and language is very key. Language itself is fallible and can be morphed to meet many purposes—it’s the medium of poets for a reason—and in \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e Orwell examines how this can be used to negate truth and establish entirely fictional histories that become generally accepted as a means to upholding power.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWar is peace.\u003cbr /\u003eFreedom is slavery.\u003cbr /\u003eIgnorance is strength.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWinston’s job is to rewrite history to fit the purpose of the party. Within his department we find all sorts of nefarious linguistic play designed to control the masses because it is thought that ‘\u003ci\u003eif thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.\u003c/i\u003e’ We can argue that we see this notion reflected in our modern day, where books exposing history that can be seen as a blemish on the US are banned or dismissed as unpatriotic or trying to rewrite history (the irony in the latter is thick) and many have spoken on the suppression of queer books as an effort to erase the language people need to assess their own identities. What Orwell is looking at is the way language and propaganda is used to control. I enjoy the way he makes creative use of language to compile entire terminologies used by Ingsoc (the party in control that is pretty blatantly a nod to Soviet Russia) to create a propagated history that fits whatever they need, even erasing the history of entire wars to portray other countries as allies and erase the recent memory of them as enemies. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eEvery record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTo step outside the orthodoxy of the Party’s version of history is to become an enemy of the Party and society and find yourself “vaporized” and erased from history. ‘\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think,\u003c/i\u003e’ Orwell writes, ‘\u003ci\u003eOrthodoxy is unconsciousness,\u003c/i\u003e’ and when the truth we know conflicts with the truth of the Party, it must be edited. ‘\u003ci\u003eLies,\u003c/i\u003e’ writes \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c/a\u003e in her book \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/56557019.Orwell_s_Roses\" title=\"Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eOrwell's Roses\u003c/a\u003e, ‘\u003ci\u003ethe assault on language -- were the necessary foundation for all the other assaults.\u003c/i\u003e’ Afterall, ‘\u003ci\u003ethe first victim of war is truth, goes the old saying, and a perpetual war against truth undergirds all authoritarianisms.\u003c/i\u003e’ “Doublespeak” comes into play here, where one can hold conflicting opinions in their mind and just accept them, and the Party finds that fear is a great tool for ensuring willing erasure of truth. ‘\u003ci\u003eTruth is not a statistic,\u003c/i\u003e’ Winston argues, claiming that just because the masses agree doesn’t make it true, though over the novel we see how the power to rewrite “truth” can potentially eviscerate anyone who says otherwise until it becomes the only known “truth.” Returning to \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/15811.Rebecca_Solnit\" title=\"Rebecca Solnit\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eRebecca Solnit\u003c/a\u003e, she observes:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eTo be forced to live with the lies of the powerful is to be forced to live with your own lack of power over the narrative, which in the end can mean lack of power over anything at all. Authoritarians see truth and fact and history as a rival system they must defeat.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003c/blockquote\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt is in this way the Party keeps people subservient. ‘\u003ci\u003eA hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance,\u003c/i\u003e’ and Winston, upon reading Goldstein’s book (the book serves as an insert into the narrative that provides a LOT of exposition about the world and its structures as well as being a sort of Marxist-esque handbook, though it only offers the \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c/i\u003e things came to be and never the \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c/i\u003e, much to Winston’s interest), Winston realizes that the proles (the working class) are the possible solution. However he realized the proles can only revolt if they become conscious of their conditions and only can become conscious of their conditions if they revolt (not a far cry from Orwell’s own statement ‘\u003ci\u003ewe cannot win the war without introducing Socialism, nor establish Socialism without winning the war.\u003c/i\u003e’), and worries this may never happen. There is also the issue that a revolution will only put a new Party in power that will inevitably oppress again, just in different ways. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e ‘\u003ci\u003eThe masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo without giving anything away because this book is full of surprises (though one may guess if they have read \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We\" title=\"We by Yevgeny Zamyatin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eWe\u003c/a\u003e by \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/43298.Yevgeny_Zamyatin\" title=\"Yevgeny Zamyatin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eYevgeny Zamyatin\u003c/a\u003e, which Orwell “borrows” heavily from—as does Huxley’s \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World\" title=\"Brave New World by Aldous Huxley\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBrave New World\u003c/a\u003e—and still remains my favorite of the three), across this novel we see a spirit of resistance rise and the forces of power come to meet it with a heavy boot and the power of erasure. While much of the novel focuses on the individual versus the collective, the biggest act of betrayal comes at the end in choosing to protect oneself, the individual, and asking for the harm of others in order to enter the “protection” of the collective Party by erasing any part of oneself outside their orthodoxy. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhere once was the belief ‘\u003ci\u003eto die hating them, that was freedom,\u003c/i\u003e’ we see ‘\u003ci\u003ein the face of pain there are no heroes\u003c/i\u003e’ and fear keeps people in line. Reminding the people of the frailty of being an individual drives them towards compliance. Yet, in another way, we see the collective existing because of the desire of individuals to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else: nobody will revolt out of fear for themselves and in doing so allows the oppression of all to continue. I think this is what \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/874602.Ursula_K__Le_Guin\" title=\"Ursula K. Le Guin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eUrsula K. Le Guin\u003c/a\u003e is getting at when her books look at the need to integrate both the individual and collective by refusing easy binaries and hierarchies. She also, especially in \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/13651.The_Dispossessed_An_Ambiguous_Utopia\" title=\"The Dispossessed An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia\u003c/a\u003e argues that history can never become stagnant and that, like Orwell argues, an revolution will try to uphold power and oppress leading to the necessity of another revolution. While Le Guin sees this as the natural course of history (the double meaning of revolution as a revolt and a constant turning cycling through) Orwell sees this as a constant erosion of truth due to the weaponization of language as propaganda that will inevitably erase reality in place of a false, collective reality where truth is sent to the grave.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eWe shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.\u003c/i\u003e’\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne might find \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e to be a rather bleak book, but it is also intended as a warning. There are many minor warnings building up to the larger, main point—such as the paperweight symbolizing a past now inaccessible where art could be beautiful for the sake of beauty, as well as symbolizing the frailty of the individual—and that we must take care to use language responsibly lest we hold the door for open propaganda. We can even do this on an individual level, such as not perpetuating misinformation (funny political memes are easy to share but dilute the severity of problems when we poke fun at, say, the looks or mannerisms of a politician instead of focusing on their policies) and not giving in to easy attacks instead of respecting the nuances. And so that's my rough rant on \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e, a book that lives on for both its relevance and its political convenience and maybe we should all remember that truth is more important than winning an argument or scoring political edgy points. I fail at it too, we all do, but Orwell reminds us to do better. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003e⅘\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e'\u003ci\u003eA nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting - three hundred million people all with the same face.\u003c/i\u003e'","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"society","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=society"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"politik","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/6431467?shelf=politik"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5664915335"},"likeCount":412,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":73},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.omh_D7QNnoiytiGKcXqUZw":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.omh_D7QNnoiytiGKcXqUZw","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":9}},"User:71478086":{"id":71478086,"__typename":"User","legacyId":71478086,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1510172444i/71478086._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":231,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Leo .","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/71478086-leo","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.omh_D7QNnoiytiGKcXqUZw"},"followersCount":409},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.wCVqkZwudXJxef5JKCizEg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.wCVqkZwudXJxef5JKCizEg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:71478086"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1739230593886,"createdAt":1510249669982,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1662490936707,"text":"Update: 1984=2024. FULL DYSTOPIAN PARADIGM FULL STEAM AHEAD\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIs Orwell turning in his grave? Does his epitaph read. \"I fucking warned you! Don't say I never told you so! \"\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDid he have a crystal fucking ball?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e***\u003cbr /\u003eIf you want truth, go out and see\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNot like in 1984, Richard Burton on TV\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCos' what's going on in the world clearly shows\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat humanity is programmed through a TV screen\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSince its conception, its all its ever been\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNews, films, dramas, sports, soaps and cartoons\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLeaving the masses wide eyed, like Buffoons\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAll the rhetoric and propaganda, oozing about us, every place we look, and go\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIt is everywhere, embedded, enveloping, as people to and fro\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eScreens on buildings, bus stops, train stations, all over the place, fuelling our vices\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePC's, laptops, google glass, tablets and mobile devices\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIts in the ether, the air and the subconscious brain\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhether one is aware or not, the information leaves its stain\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell must have been psychic, or was he in the know\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePerpetual war, a bogeyman, terrorists, must be real, its all a TV show\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCensored press, hacking phones, spying on the masses\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEvery email, phone call, text message, and google eye glasses\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTechnocratic Dystopia, hunger games, people put into factions\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNot allowed to speak, monitoring our actions\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn the name of security, no person is free\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUnless your blood is Royal, or have connections to the family\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOr a valued member in Vatican State, purple robes, velvet glove, and iron fist\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA Freemason, a congressman, senator, president, PM, you get the gist\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSocial engineering, eugenics, deep state, cabals and satanic cults\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLodges, temples, hail, thunder and lightening bolts\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRapture, ragnarok, jihad, ends of days TV\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn dramas, films, cartoons, its all we ever see\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMonsters and bogeymen, cold war, terrorism, and disease, and destruction\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePeople trafficking, drug smuggling, arms deals, and child abduction\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAll entertainment, to keep the masses distracted\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eNo freedom of information, cos the juicy bits are redacted\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn the name of security, or for the security of a famous name\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe whole thing is inverted, its all a game\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCos' rules are lures, and laws are walls\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd all of the people are silly fools\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eGlued to a PC, Mob Phone or TV screen\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSince its conception, its all its ever been\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWas Orwell a psychic, or was he in the know\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOne things for certain, it won't be on a TV show\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBy Leo.🐯👍\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhen one is young and immersed into the seas of academia one is asked what one wants to be when one grows up? Which pigeon hole? What label? What career?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWhen a car driver loses control of the vehicle and strays from the path that was ahead, the car careers off the road. One might crash. One is no longer on the journey one originally set out on. One is lost. Off the beaten track.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo, when one is a child and asked what career one wants, esoterically it means how can one be swayed or crashed and stopped from what one may want to be when one grows up. The only answer a child should give to their teacher (indoctrinater) is...HAPPY!👍🐯\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWho are these people? These authorities with all the powers?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eDeciding what we say, or do, or go, from their Ivory Towers\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA deviant neighbour moves in next door, behaviour abnormal, and hoarding trash\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ePuts his waste in his shed, a festering, mouldy stash\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAttracting rats, mice, flies and vermin of all kinds\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBreaking other residents resolve, distorting their minds\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFor when the community complain about it, every day, week in week out, all the time\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThese authorities point the finger at us, accuse us of a Bloody Hate Crime!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRationale has been replaced, with the word Hate\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAs the lines blur, in this New World Order, is it too late?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTo change this world? To take a stance? Maybe our last Chance!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis world is going to Hell in a Shitstorm! If we don't restore the Earth's Balance. 🐯👍\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e Politics, or many ticks? Crawling all over society\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e Police or Po-Lice? Crawling over people who are Free\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eChoose and Lose, for they are not there, for the likes of You and Me\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eLook around and thus, Beware!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e These parasites, are only there to Scare\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e To enforce Order, in the chaos they Create\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e On behest of the Magicians behind the curtains, the One's that preach Hate. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn this Cube, this false construct, this Square. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSo look around, see the whole, and Beware!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e I am full aware of what is going on in this pursuit for a New World Order, an Old World Order, whereby the void between the few and the majority broadens. I am so frustrated how the Sheeple just seem to lap it up. Every day the Inter-NET tightens it's grip or, the World Wide Spider Web lures and traps millions with the Glitsy new smart phone. A cell phone. A smart cell phone that is all singing and dancing...Blah! Blah! Blah! It is called a Cell phone for a reason. Like the Net and the Web. Soon all appliances and mob devices will be Smart. If one does not own one then when 5G is rolled out and the Smart Grid comes into being, one will be left behind. Soon all money paid in wages or commerce will be digital and people will not survive in the New Virtual World unless one is chipped or connected to the 5G network. Understand that money is phony. It is paper or a figure on a PC screen. Soon to be a digital concept, like in the film In Time. Money used to be made of copper, silver and gold. This is when coins actually held value, worth it's weight in gold actually meant something. Then the Templars invented the Banking system, (now they are called Freemasons) a Fiat pyramid system that is illegal yet, no person seems to care. That is the way it is. Only because of ignorance. Acquiescence, Taxation is a fraud. It is theft. Time to wake up before it is too late.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eClub of Rome, Skull and Bones, Knights of the Realm, Knights of Malta, Rosicrucians, CFR, just a few of the Nefarious institutions. London School Of Economics and the Tavistock Institute. Oh! And the female freemasonic Eastern Star. Maybe I have said too much but, I don't care anymore.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThat is today's Rant.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eEverybody should read 1984 and also watch the film. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eUpdate:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe Sex Pistols, a great British band\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFully aware, of the hidden hand\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe entity, that controls, from most high, looking down\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eElevated, Godlike, Alpha, The Crown💓👍🐯","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/71478086?shelf=read"},"taggings":[],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2179199504"},"likeCount":394,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":23},"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA":{"id":"kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA","__typename":"Contributor","works":{"__typename":"ContributorWorksConnection","totalCount":1}},"User:27098959":{"id":27098959,"__typename":"User","legacyId":27098959,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1708018944i/27098959._UX200_CR0,29,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":true,"textReviewsCount":398,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Leonard Gaya","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/27098959-leonard-gaya","contributor":{"__ref":"Contributor:kca://author/amzn1.gr.author.v1.msgio6b9mUlKluIgAWn9iA"},"followersCount":1114},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.F4ByIR-CgU2maM1Ce_piKw":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.F4ByIR-CgU2maM1Ce_piKw","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:27098959"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1740078062371,"createdAt":1393367040000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1622895862285,"text":"1948: Europe was only starting to recover from the slaughter of World War II. Nazi Germany had been crushed by the Russian army in the East and by the Anglo-American forces in the West. The totalitarian regimes of Hitler, Mussolini and Imperial Japan were defeated. Stalin was going strong. Franco was undisturbed. However, the war was not quite over: the victors, Russia on one side, the USA on the other, were now superpowers staring stonily at each other, their hands loaded with a new and deadly arsenal.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell wrote \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e, right after \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/7613.Animal_Farm\" title=\"Animal Farm by George Orwell\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c/a\u003e, in this ominous post/cold/perpetual-war context, and many aspects of it are steeped in the horrors of tyranny, dehumanisation and disaster. Winston Smith, the wretched protagonist, lives in an alternate history where everyone is under constant surveillance (via “telescreens” and widespread denunciation). A place where propaganda, misinformation, history re-writing, language and thought manipulation, “reality control” (2+2=5) are pervasive tools to make every individual conform with the “Ingsoc” Party’s ideology. The result is a diehard totalitarian state, a perfect hell on earth, where individuality is “vaporised” at the whim of a spectral Big Brother and where even love is impossible.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eWorth highlighting in the novel: the long interlude about “\u003ci\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism\u003c/i\u003e” (II, 9) — inserted within a slightly incongruous romance episode — and the appendix on “\u003ci\u003eThe Principles of Newspeak\u003c/i\u003e” — written as if from an unknown point, far in the future, when the madness has eventually subsided. Both sections are stupefying. Yet, the last third of the book is probably one of the worst nightmares in literature: a prolonged torture and brainwashing session that plunges into utter insanity. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/author/show/8788.Erich_Fromm\" title=\"Erich Fromm\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eErich Fromm\u003c/a\u003e’s afterword (included at the end of the Signet Classics paperback edition) rightly puts \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e in perspective with its historical context and other works of speculative fiction, like \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/5129.Brave_New_World\" title=\"Brave New World by Aldous Huxley\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eBrave New World\u003c/a\u003e. Still, while Huxley’s satire is substantially ironic, almost jovial, the general tone in Orwell’s book is dismal, revolting, at times practically unbearable. At any rate, this novel has become one of the canonical landmarks of political \u003ci\u003edystopia\u003c/i\u003e. Hannah Arendt possibly read \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e when writing \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/396931.The_Origins_of_Totalitarianism\" title=\"The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Origins of Totalitarianism\u003c/a\u003e a couple of years after Orwell’s death. Its influence after that, on works like \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/38447.The_Handmaid_s_Tale__The_Handmaid_s_Tale___1_\" title=\"The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Handmaid’s Tale\u003c/a\u003e, is manifest as well.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMichael Radford’s heartrending film adaptation is very faithful to the novel. But my favourite film “free-adaptation” remains \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eBrazil\u003c/a\u003e by Terry Gilliam. \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eBlade Runner\u003c/a\u003e, too, borrows much of its 2019 Los Angeles architecture from \u003ci\u003e1984\u003c/i\u003e’s Miniluv pyramidal building descriptions.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe days of Hitler and Stalin are long gone now. Even so, almost a century later, in a time of political paralysis and corruption, where the most prominent “\u003ci\u003edoubleplusgood duckspeaker\u003c/i\u003e” politicians of the world make ample use of a new form of \u003ci\u003enewspeak\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003edoublethink\u003c/i\u003e; in a time of threatened privacy and increasing digital surveillance and mindfuck, Orwell’s prophetic warning is as relevant as ever.","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"favorites","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/27098959?shelf=favorites"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/865163120"},"likeCount":367,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":40},"User:109681904":{"id":109681904,"__typename":"User","legacyId":109681904,"imageUrlSquare":"","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":380,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Layla","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/109681904-layla","contributor":null,"followersCount":449},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.IE-nmxYDhqxEC_KLgCFTpg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.IE-nmxYDhqxEC_KLgCFTpg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:109681904"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1739835934512,"createdAt":1613698856884,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1632307575439,"text":"\u003cb\u003e~ 2 stars ~\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eTW/CW:\u003c/b\u003e talk of rape and homicide, physical and mental abuse / torture, misogyny\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis has to be my most disappointing read of the year so far. Everything I expected, and everything I wanted never happened. I thought that the political aspect was interesting, and while I liked that part, it sadly was not enough to save this book. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI’ve been wanting to read this for a while as it’s considered such a staple in dystopian, and in general literature. I’ve even watched a school play which I enjoyed, but of course, that had excluded all the problematic aspects, so I had no idea what I was getting myself into.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis book takes on an authoritarianism and totalitarian government, propaganda, censorship, surveillance, etc. and I thought it dealt with that well enough, and making connections between current day and this book was an experience, i'll say that. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eHaving known this going in, it seemed like something I would love, and it checked off many boxes of what I was looking for at the time. I even had many quotes I had highlighted for this review that I thought were insightful, but my very smart self returned the ebook without recording them all. Other than the ones I used for my reading updates of course, but most of those were ones I used to complain. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBut other than that aspect, it felt like a chore to read. So many things that I didn’t like, and so many things that angered me. I’m reading a story, I want to be immersed, and invested, not bored out of my mind. The writing was nothing special, and the story itself was blander than white bread. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThe info dumps were absolutely painful too. I don’t know how I pushed through, though barely considering it took me almost 20 days to complete. There was one particular infodump that I especially suffered through, one that would serve to bring up some of these political discussions and simultaneously throw up a bunch of world building on me. It took up more than 13% of the entire book. 13 PERCENT. My brain felt all mushy by the end, and I’m not sure I properly processed any of it. What was the reason? It couldn’t have been any less digestible. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd then of course we have the characters. I would gladly fist fight Winston, who is our protagonist. I don’t care if some would consider that elder abuse, I would if I could. I have read from such unlikable characters before, but Winston is on another level of terrible. Again, must I ask, what was the reason? Why was he so absolutely horrible? He constantly sexualizes the women he “loves” in disgusting ways, and her youth, and has some weird grudge against anyone that is “pure”, whatever that means. No, sorry, he just hates women in general. Before knowing Julia, his love interest, he imagined raping her, and then slitting her throat for being, what he thought then, celabite. He contemplated smashing her head against the wall. And those weren’t solidary situations. He spends the entire book saying and thinking creepy, disgusting and irritating stuff. I hate him. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd then we have Julia, the only female character that spoke more than one line. And her only role is that she is shallow and weak, existing solely for Winston and his pleasure, and his sexual fantasies. And that is all she cares about. Sex. That is all she lives for, and nothing else. She has no thoughts of her own, and her personality is as annoying as can be. It definitely plays into the whole “women are objects” thing, which of course angered me even more. I mean for goodness sake, the misogyny was so strong with this one. As in the overused trope, which in itself promotes that internalized misogyny. Julia outright says how she hates women. Excuse you?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd all the other characters didn’t matter, at least to me, so that neither hurt or helped my experience, but the two we knew the most made me want to chuck the book out the window more times than I could count. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd Winston and Julia together was even worse than I could ever imagine. Not only do they not have any chemistry, just a lot of possessiveness, but they are already confessing their love never having properly talked before. Winston spends a good chunk of the book hating on her, but then when she confesses her love, suddenly he is in love with her too. Winston even tells Julia about how he wanted to *coughs* murder her, and she just laughs it off as if it is something normal. If only this behavior was condemned, as it should be. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is the most unromantic relationship ever. And obviously I am aware that perhaps I should not judge the book by it’s characters, and their portrayal, as that is not what the story is truly about. That’s not what is important. But don’t you think that if I’m going to be following their story, that I should at least be able to tolerate them? At the very least. I don’t think I am being unerasable. And perhaps I could have overlooked the characters, had I actually been interested in the story itself, but I did not. Little by little, any hope I had was crushed, and I was bored to no extent, so having to deal with an incel on top of it all did not bode well for \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinal Thoughts:\u003c/b\u003e Overall, I dragged through this. It was not a good read. This is so highly praised and I just expected better. I can see where people who like it are coming from in some way, but it was a big no for me. I’ve also been informed that this is basically just a rip off of \u003ci\u003eWe\u003c/i\u003e by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is a better book, so perhaps I will pick that up in the future. Maybe i’ll even read \u003ci\u003eAnimal Farm\u003c/i\u003e for the sake of it, and also because I’m curious to read about talking pigs.","rating":2,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/109681904?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classsics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/109681904?shelf=classsics"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3812620121"},"likeCount":369,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":46},"User:78485297":{"id":78485297,"__typename":"User","legacyId":78485297,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1731569636i/78485297._UY200_CR41,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":805,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Mario the lone bookwolf","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/78485297-mario-the-lone-bookwolf","contributor":null,"followersCount":5228},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.RUbSDQsrNo-Ot3M2ji5E4A":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.RUbSDQsrNo-Ot3M2ji5E4A","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:78485297"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1653199125971,"createdAt":1644645584232,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1653199125971,"text":"Newspeaking ones way towards manufacturing consent with optional mutilating death by torture after brainwashing, because these pesky citizens just don´t get to the core of the fact that Ingsocs War is peace Freedom is Slavery Ignorance is strength police is based on hard, serious humanities such as politics, economics, and sociology.\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eIt´s just reality\u003cbr /\u003eThe irony lies in the fact that it just seems like the nightmarish tale of a forever dictatorship for the privileged people living in Western, brave new world, pseudo democracies, while it´s painful reality for billions of people. The severity may vary, but there are so many regions and states out there in the world where the „I should be silent to avoid secret torture prisons and internment aka death camps“ thought is a part of daily life, an epigenetic standard nutrition kids are born with. \u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eOne character struggling makes it even more intense\u003cbr /\u003eOrwells´choice to just focus on one storyline and the backstory makes it so compelling, while the dismal and depressing atmosphere pulls the reader into big brothers surveillance state with its secret police and euphemistic ministries. \u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eChecklisting how much has become real.\u003cbr /\u003eEven in democratic countries, there is \u003cbr /\u003evast control of information, media, and the consensus of which economic and political doctrines are dogmas that mustn´t be criticized or doubted.\u003cbr /\u003ePermanent warmongering with, especially the US, invading or supporting war parties. This is combined with\u003cbr /\u003eDiscrediting even not radical, just progressive, alternative political parties, NGOs, and citizen movements that are too defiant. Good old Divide and rule style. Just swallow it, democracy is dead, but at least progressive, critical voices are just ignored and not killed. Thanks to the\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eMilitary industrial complex public private partnershipping the last drop out of dysfunctional, intentionally destroyed distributional justice and eco social market economy.\u003cbr /\u003eA great problem that emerges from the corporations controlling all democratic European and the US governments, probably the Asian, South American ones, Australia, etc. too, is that they actively promote any kind of authoritarian leadership in countries they have economic interests in, thereby actively helping in spreading Big Brother. Exaggeration? Sadly a clear nope, read Chomsky, Klein, Colin Crouch, Ziegler, Shiva Vandana, etc., all the critical, unheard voices denouncing neoliberalism, neoconservatism, neocolonialism, and globalization. Or call me a leftist conspiracist and trust politicians and journalists, far more easygoing. I should really consider to stop committing thoughtcrimes. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAs if any ethical, democratic Western government (or a conglomerate of all of them) would go full economic warfare mode \u003cbr /\u003e \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_warfare\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economi...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eand unleash fictional entities like, let´s just for fun call them, world building mode activated, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organisation, who exploit all weak and poor members while brave new worlding its own population. Or let´s get even more ridiculous and call a fictional superpower United States of Eurasia who loves to step over the final border of actively promoting wars for just economic and geopolitical reasons to directly smash democracies to breed more big brothers since, let´s pick any number, 1945.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_United_States_military_operations#1945%E2%80%931949\"\u003ehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI just love the uchronia and alternative history genre, it´s both so dark and ironic.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSimilar stuff\u003cbr /\u003eThis is added to my review of Brave new world too.\u003cbr /\u003eBesides the 2 behemoths, Karel Capeks´ \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/816440.War_with_the_Newts?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=gMlXvpdqsc\u0026amp;rank=1\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003edark, disturbing masterpiece is possibly one of the best dystopian terror pieces. It´s focusing on the role of big money and industry, of innocence turned into the same evil it suffers, was written in 1936 and satirizes Germans, Japanese, Russians, societies, ideologies, and economy in general and is a timeless memorial against political and economic terrorism and extremism of any kind. \u003cbr /\u003eAldous Huxley was Orwells´ college professor and they definitively inspired and mentally inseminated another to form these brave new worlds. \u003cbr /\u003eZamyatin Yevgenys´ We is another, historical extremely interesting piece, although just not as famous and fancy as the others, kind of the same problem as with the underappreciated Capek. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/76171.We?ac=1\u0026amp;from_search=true\u0026amp;qid=g64ln0l7rX\u0026amp;rank=1\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAn extremely difficult to read one is Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41069.Stand_on_Zanzibar?ac=1\u0026amp;from_search=true\u0026amp;qid=4ptF8n7CDb\u0026amp;rank=1\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003ewhich comes very close to Huxleys´ ideas, but is much darker.\u003cbr /\u003eSome more dark and/ or satiric tones:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/392566.The_Space_Merchants\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40450.Market_Forces?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=Mvs2AtRapo\u0026amp;rank=7\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA similar idea by the master of philosophical, satirical sci-fi, the great, unique Lem:\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/733473.The_Futurological_Congress?from_search=true\u0026amp;from_srp=true\u0026amp;qid=7BlvGRJNcJ\u0026amp;rank=1\"\u003ehttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e \u003cbr /\u003eSubjectively, I do find it much more attractive that we wealthy Westerners live in friendly Brave new worlds with fringe pseudo democracy and not in Orwellian or Capekian horror visions as many other poor people around the world do. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eTropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: \u003cbr /\u003e\u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/NineteenEightyFour\"\u003ehttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...\u003c/a\u003e","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/78485297?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"orwell-george","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/78485297?shelf=orwell-george"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4544844260"},"likeCount":null,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":29},"User:1219253":{"id":1219253,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1219253,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1411956191i/1219253._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":282,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Amanda","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1219253-amanda","contributor":null,"followersCount":310},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.4fpZIrAZojTGvCXrt_vZ-g":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.4fpZIrAZojTGvCXrt_vZ-g","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1219253"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1739714569394,"createdAt":1212789279000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1386163221000,"text":"I've put off writing a review for 1984 because it's simply too daunting to do so. I liked 1984 even better after a second reading (bumping it up from a 4 star to a 5 star) because I think that, given the complexity of the future created by Orwell, multiple readings may be needed to take it all in. I thought it was genius the first time and appreciated that genius even more the second time. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eOrwell had a daunting task: creating a future nearly half a century away from the time period in which he was writing. This future had to be its own complex, independent society, but it also had to be the natural end result of the totalitarianism Orwell witnessed in the communist and socialist regimes of World War II. That's part of the horror of 1984: this future is a recognizable one, even in the 21st century. It's easy to see how those in control can, through manipulation and propaganda, maintain that control simply for the sake of sating their own power hunger. It's easy to say \"no one could ever tell me what to think or what to do,\" but the Party's use of Big Brother, the Thought Police, the Two-Minute Hate, and Doublethink make it easy to see how a person's ability to think independently and discern fiction from reality can be eroded when there is no touchstone to fact. Revising and rewriting the past to make certain that Big Brother and the Party are always correct has effectively eliminated historical accuracy. How can one think and reason in a society where everything is a fabrication?\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnother facet of 1984 that I find fascinating is the relationship between Winston and Julia. Winston claims Julia is a \"rebel from the waist down,\" engaging in promiscuity and hedonistic indulgences forbidden by the Party. She doesn't care about social injustice or defining \"reality\"; she only longs for what will make her feel good in the moment and only rebels far enough to get what she wants. By comparison, Winston is an intellectual rebel, constantly worrying over the issues of truth and freedom and the real, unvarnished past, but limited in how far he's willing to push the boundaries (until he meets Julia). Together, they make a complete rebellion--physical and mental, but apart they find themselves impotent to stand up to the Party. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eA cautionary tale, social commentary, and exemplary example of dystopian fiction, 1984 is one of those perfect novels that not only entertains, but forces one to think about the danger associated with giving any one person or entity too much power or control over our lives--issues well worth consideration in post-9/11 America.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eCross posted at \u003ca href=\"http://viiamanda.blogspot.com/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eThis Insignificant Cinder\u003c/a\u003e","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"kick-ass","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=kick-ass"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"book-club-made-me-do-it","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=book-club-made-me-do-it"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"blog","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1219253?shelf=blog"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23884470"},"likeCount":344,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":17},"User:32879029":{"id":32879029,"__typename":"User","legacyId":32879029,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1520568130i/32879029._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":2359,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"emma","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/32879029-emma","contributor":null,"followersCount":81552},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1._WpsRNO5hyi-AK_vIG2Plg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1._WpsRNO5hyi-AK_vIG2Plg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:32879029"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1740078147850,"createdAt":1582817947496,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1702435681131,"text":"i'm not making any point in particular...just that if you have any intention of reading a book about totalitarianism and apocalyptic government, written by a man who believed in democratic socialism as the solution...well, now might be a good time.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e----\u003cbr /\u003e\u003ci\u003efull review\u003c/i\u003e\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eI had been meaning to read this book for a long time, but I finally did it based on a friend’s (hi Dario) insistence. It took me way longer than expected to finish it, and once I managed, said friend requested (in all caps) a text-message review. Here is that unaltered review for your perusal.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 1: I THOUGHT IT WAS MOSTLY A VESSEL FOR A CERTAIN LINE OF THINKING\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 2: WHICH WAS CARRIED ACROSS IN GOLDSTEIN’S BOOK AND O’BRIEN’S DIALOGUE AT THE END\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 3: AND WHILE THOSE PASSAGES WERE SMART AND WORTHY OF PUBLICATION, THEY ULTIMATELY WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE EFFECTIVE AS AN ESSAY\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 4: BUT NOWHERE CLOSE TO AS MANY PEOPLE WOULD HAVE READ IT AS AN ESSAY\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 5: anyway in the end i thought much of it was unnecessary but overall it’s a deeply impressive work\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 6: i was lowkey astonished at how long the goldstein “passages” were\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 7: but some of the ideas there were remarkable\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eMessage 8: i found myself skimming at some points, and then i was mad at myself for skimming bc it’s like the whole point of the book, and then i was mad at the author for conveying the most important ideas in such a lazy way\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFin.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIn conclusion, yes, I am the type of nightmare-person who responds to texts by breaking up sentiments into dozens of messages.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eSorry.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eBottom line: This was good but I wish it had been one or two political opinion papers instead! Sorry again!\u003cbr /\u003e","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"non-ya","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=non-ya"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=sci-fi"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"3-and-a-half-stars","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=3-and-a-half-stars"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"reviewed","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=reviewed"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"dystopian","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=dystopian"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"to-buy","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/32879029?shelf=to-buy"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3209145476"},"likeCount":337,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":15},"User:16254355":{"id":16254355,"__typename":"User","legacyId":16254355,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1464987365i/16254355._UX200_CR0,18,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1221,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Matthew","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/16254355-matthew","contributor":null,"followersCount":9927},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Ob_dnk7yz2FQ2v4ZNYibhg":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.Ob_dnk7yz2FQ2v4ZNYibhg","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:16254355"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1736991395781,"createdAt":1357712293000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1478367771610,"text":"Yes! This book! Amazing! Terrifying, brutal, intricate, prophetic - and, in one big word, GENIUS!\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis was a reread - the last time I read this was over 20 years ago and I wanted to see if the 5 star rating and its standing in one of my top 3 favorite books held up - and it most certainly does.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eIf this book was written today in the midst of the slew of dystopian novels that come out, it may not have stood out. But, this book was way ahead of its time. Written in a post WWII era where the fears of dictatorships and brutal tyranny were fresh in the minds of the people, this book plays off that fear and adds a dark vision of a potential future.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eThis is where the genius of Orwell comes in. The book is mainly the manifesto of the Party that the main character is seeking to rebell against. But, the ideology and descriptions of this dystopian world are not presented in a boring way - they are fascinating. The fact that Orwell created this world and laid out not only a terrifying political environment, but the rules for the new language they were creating, is beyond amazing. \u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eFinally, some of the things he describes sound all too possible in our current world. The controversial elections this week in the US only added to the intensity of this book.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eRead this! Especially if you are a fan of modern dystopia, you must read the fore fathers - 1984 and Brave New World.\u003cbr /\u003e\u003cbr /\u003eAnd, remember - Big Brother is watching!","rating":5,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"favorites","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=favorites"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=classic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"political-thrillers","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=political-thrillers"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"sci-fi","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=sci-fi"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"2016","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=2016"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"audio","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=audio"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"hoopla","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=hoopla"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"read-more-than-once","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=read-more-than-once"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"post-apocalyptic-dystopian","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/16254355?shelf=post-apocalyptic-dystopian"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/500798266"},"likeCount":310,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":35},"User:1199525":{"id":1199525,"__typename":"User","legacyId":1199525,"imageUrlSquare":"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/users/1480285828i/1199525._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg","isAuthor":false,"textReviewsCount":1260,"viewerRelationshipStatus":null,"name":"Cecily","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/1199525-cecily","contributor":null,"followersCount":4949},"Review:kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.KGqWw34mEhULG92YzuOA5Q":{"id":"kca://review:goodreads/amzn1.gr.review:goodreads.v1.KGqWw34mEhULG92YzuOA5Q","__typename":"Review","creator":{"__ref":"User:1199525"},"recommendFor":null,"updatedAt":1737555072427,"createdAt":1212180842000,"spoilerStatus":false,"lastRevisionAt":1717923817827,"text":"The colour of this book is grey, relentless grey: of skin, sky, food, floor, walls, mind, life itself. Added piquancy comes from general decay, drudgery, exploitation, chronic sickness, and malaise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/hostedimages/1451476370i/17547680.gif\" class=\"gr-hostedUserImg\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTen Shades of Grey?\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is also sex and (non-sexual) bondage, domination, and torture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI don’t expect a dystopian book to be happy reading, but this reread was far grimmer than I remembered it, partly because I read it immediately after the lyrical beauty of another dystopia, \u003cb\u003eFahrenheit 451\u003c/b\u003e, reviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23324785\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE\u003c/a\u003e, and partly because I’ve probably watched Terry Gilliam’s magical film, \u003ca href=\"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088846/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eBrazil\u003c/a\u003e so many times (though he claimed he had not read the book before making the film).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNevertheless, more than 50 years after it was written, 1984 is still powerful, important, and relevant - a feat EL James’ “Fifty Shades” books are unlikely to achieve. On the other hand, I gather Fifty Shades lacks page after page of heavy-handed political theory, so on that criterion, it might be ahead of 1984.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIf there is hope, it lies in the proles\u003c/i\u003e” - they are not any shade of grey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe novel that inspired this\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrwell admitted to being heavily inspired by Yevgeny Zamyatin’s \u003cb\u003eWE\u003c/b\u003e. The plot is very similar, but WE is a more complex combination of utopia and dystopia, and Natasha Randall's translation has a lyrical beauty very different from Orwell's much greyer, darker mood. See my review \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/968642759\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHave We Reached 1984? (written in 2015)\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn some ways, this book is very dated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe underlying \u003cb\u003emisogyny\u003c/b\u003e is unchallenged (Winston “\u003ci\u003edisliked nearly all women, and especially the young pretty ones… who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party\u003c/i\u003e” and he quickly goes from wanting to rape and murder a woman (he even tells her!) to lusting after “her youthful body desperate for him” and feeling “he had a right to” her). On the other hand, Winston is uncritical - enthusiastic even - about her promiscuity. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tRelated to that - and to Fahrenheit 451 - Derek (Guilty of thoughtcrime) wrote in a group discussion: \"there's a distinct echo in both books of the \u003cb\u003eGarden of Eden\u003c/b\u003e story, with Eve tempting Adam to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And in each case, it's a denial of the dogma that this is the original sin.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tA contemporary writer would probably avoid the lengthy passages of \u003cb\u003eexposition and theory\u003c/b\u003e found here (especially ~20 pages of closely typed text from Goldstein’s snappily titled “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism”). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe post-war \u003cb\u003eCold War\u003c/b\u003e fears are ancient history, and the rise of supposedly Islamic groups like Daesh/ISIS/ISIL pose a different sort of threat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBUT, where this is still pertinent, it’s not quite in the ways that Orwell might have expected.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tWe’re blasé about \u003cb\u003eubiquitous CCTV\u003c/b\u003e cameras, and we voluntarily, enthusiastically, surrender details of our interests, activities, location, and friends via our smartphone apps, and Google (see Vox article about how Google Trends reveals the truths that people don't tell researchers, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/6/13/15768622/facebook-social-media-seth-stephens-davidowitz-everybody-lies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c/a\u003e). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tWe think we’re too smart to fall for lies like those of the Party, but a quick trawl of trending stories on social media demonstrates the untruth of that: \u003cb\u003epeople are gullible\u003c/b\u003e. The patent nonsense that people believe and share, without ever engaging the weakest of critical faculties is staggering. Most of those are trivial compared with the lies of Big Brother, but they show how easy it is to believe what everyone else believes, regardless of ample evidence to the contrary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tWe may not have Two Minutes’ Hate or Hate Week, but we certainly have hate figures, and again, social media exacerbates the crowd mentality: “\u003ci\u003eThe horrible thing… was not that one was obliged to act a part, but… that it was impossible to avoid joining in\u003c/i\u003e”. I’ve not read Jon Ronson’s \u003cb\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://goodreads.com/book/show/22571552.So_You_ve_Been_Publicly_Shamed\" title=\"So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eSo You've Been Publicly Shamed\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/b\u003e, but I’m familiar with many of the stories in it (if you’re not, look at the many excellent reviews on GR). Scary stuff.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUpdate, January 2017, “Alternative Facts”\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 20 January 2017, Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the USA. He campaigned in the style of an autocratic, narcissistic demagogue. He had a long track record of flagrantly denying obvious, provable truths, even on trivial matters. The day after numerous photos and other measures showed unimpressive attendance at his inauguration, rather than blame poor weather or practical and financial difficulties of travel, Sean Spicer, White House Press Secretary flat-out denied realistic estimates, refused to take questions, and threatened to crack down on the press. The resulting furore led to Kellyanne Conway, a Trump Strategist, defended him, saying he had merely presented \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003e\"Alternative Facts\"\u003c/a\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command… And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth's centre. With the feeling that he was speaking to O'Brien, and also that he was setting forth an important axiom, he wrote: .....Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.\u003c/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIf the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened – that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death? \u003c/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink\u003c/i\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBeing in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.\u003c/i\u003e” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnTruth and UnReality - Three Types\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The mutability of the past” means history is forever being \u003cs\u003erewritten\u003c/s\u003e corrected for slips, errors, misprints and misquotes, making truth unknowable (Winston is not even sure of his age or year of birth). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe doublethink slogans of the Party are another deliberate type of unreality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe third confusion of reality is subtler, in stark contrast to the gritty realism of the rest of the book, and not one I’d really considered on previous readings. It relates to dreams, premonitions, hallucinations, and (in)sanity. Confusion from deprivation and torture is one thing, but there are possible magical-realist aspects. Early on, Winston dreams of meeting O’Brien “in the place where there is no darkness”; later mentions are ambiguous as to whether this is coincidence or something else. A country landscape is also familiar from a dream, and he has a muddled dream about the coral paperweight, his mother and a Jewish woman. Furthermore, there are times in prison when the interrogator’s knowledge seems too precise and secret to be inferred from spies, screens or microphones: can he read Winston’s mind?!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReality exists in the human mind and nowhere else. \u003c/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“If there is hope, it lies in the proles”\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe proles were not loyal to a party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another… The proles had stayed human. \u003c/i\u003e” As unimportant drones, they have freedom denied to Party members and “were beneath suspicion”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConditions in Airstrip One are dire, with food and basic services in very limited supply, but sanity is scarcest of all. “\u003ci\u003eStupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain. \u003c/i\u003e” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor some, “\u003ci\u003eBy lack of understanding they remained sane\u003c/i\u003e”. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThree Parts\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe first part sets the scene of Winston’s Smith’s predictable life as an unimportant Party member in Big Brother’s terrifying regime in Airstrip One, ever at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe second part concerns actions: freedom, courage, love/lust, betrayal. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tThe final part is about the consequences of those actions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgain and again, brief, apparently trivial things turn out to be significant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNewspeak\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.\u003c/i\u003e” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eNewspeak is the only language in the world whose vocabulary gets smaller every year\u003c/i\u003e”, with the aim of making “\u003ci\u003ethoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it\u003c/i\u003e”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is really an extreme form of linguistic determinism (aka Sapir-Whorf hypothesis): the idea that the structure of a language can affect the cognition of those who use it. A very different extrapolation of that is in Ted Chiang's \u003cb\u003eThe Story of Your Life\u003c/b\u003e (filmed for 2016 as Arrival), reviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1221943078\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI thought the linguistic aspect would be something I’d especially enjoy this time, but the key features are familiar and it’s explained in an appendix (which is where most of the lengthy extracts of Goldstein’s book should have gone, imo.) However, it's worth noting that the appendix, written after the main story, is in conventional English. \u003cb\u003eNewspeak is/was no more\u003c/b\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor insight into 21st Century Political Language, see my review of Steven Pool's excellent \u003cb\u003eUnspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality\u003c/b\u003e from 2006, \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23328192\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeelings – and Troublesome Questions\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a grey, cold book. Even the lust and passion it contains is chilling. But it asks timeless and difficult questions about love and loyalty:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tWould you risk everything - absolutely everything - for a few passionate meetings with someone you may not even love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tTo serve your ideology, would you lie, murder, steal… throw acid in a child’s face?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tIf you could save your partner by doubling your own pain, would you? Would you really?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\tIs failure of love the only betrayal that counts? (If you tell all, but secretly love, are you loyal?)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuotes\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome are so well-known, it might seem superfluous to type them here, but that’s exactly why I’ve included them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t“It was a bright cold day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Although the sun was shining and the sky a harsh blue, there seemed to be no colour in anything, except the posters that were plastered everywhere.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“An active man of almost paralysing stupidity.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“All history was a palimpsest.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The old man’s memory was nothing but a rubbish-heap of details.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“A hanging oil lamp which gave off an unclean but friendly smell.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“He would buy further scraps of beautiful rubbish.” (In addition to coral in glass.)\u003cbr\u003e•\t“It was camouflage. If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.”\u003cbr\u003e•\tA dash of lipstick and <20><><EFBFBD>she had become not only much prettier, but… far more feminine.”\u003cbr\u003e•\tCharrington, the junk shop owner had “vaguely the air of being a collector rather than a tradesman”.\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The end was contained in the beginning.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Our only true life was in the future.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Winston was gelatinous with fatigue… His body seemed to have not only the weakness of a jelly, but its transparency.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The best books, he [Winston] perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.” No, no, no!\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The blade would bite into him with a sort of burning coldness.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain… Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.” Hmm. What about emotional pain?\u003cbr\u003e•\t“If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“The confession was a formality. The torture was real.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” \u003cbr\u003e•\t“In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic… But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out.” Shades of Kafka’s \u003cb\u003eIn the Penal Colony\u003c/b\u003e, reviewed \u003ca href=\"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/123462555\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"\u003eHERE\u003c/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSlogans\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e•\t“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“2 + 2 = 5” “Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“It is not enough to obey him: you must love him.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“We are interested solely in power… Power is not a means, it is an end.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Outside man there is nothing… The earth is the centre of the universe.”\u003cbr\u003e•\t“Big Brother is watching.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImage source: \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"http://www.artsparx.com/images/bl_valuechart.gif\"\u003ehttp://www.artsparx.com/images/bl_val...\u003c/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOLD Review from 2008\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year 1984 may be long passed, but this book is more pertinent than ever: big brother is watching us, history is rewritten (though that has always been true) and free speech is constrained (albeit often under the misused guise of political correctness). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's a shame that the humorous TV programme \"Room 101\" and reality TV franchise \"Big Brother\" have distracted people from the seriousness of Orwell's message.","rating":4,"shelving":{"__typename":"Shelving","shelf":{"__typename":"Shelf","name":"read","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=read"},"taggings":[{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"classics","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=classics"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"scifi-future-speculative-fict","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=scifi-future-speculative-fict"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"dystopian-apocalyptic","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=dystopian-apocalyptic"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"language-related","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=language-related"}},{"__typename":"Tagging","tag":{"__typename":"Tag","name":"film-good-or-better-than-book","webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525?shelf=film-good-or-better-than-book"}}],"webUrl":"https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23327919"},"likeCount":314,"viewerHasLiked":null,"commentCount":127}},"authContextParams":{"signedIn":false,"customerId":null,"legacyCustomerId":null,"role":"user"},"userAgentContextParams":{"isWebView":null},"userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; 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