The novel is written in a dark, melancholic, and nightmarish mood, having a “black-and-white” air. It is written with an austere style of a monotonous-sounding prose. Overall, the environment is implied as dreary-looking, as seen from Winston’s eyes. As a matter of fact, the plot setting is simply a fictitious version of mid-1950’s geopolitical map. Just as the actual history saw three spheres of influence dominate the world, namely the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which was the unified West; the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), comprising the Russian economic and military zones in eastern Europe and central Asia; and the far eastern nations led by regional powers such as Japan and China, the Orwellian nations are also
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The right to reason and decide is only allowed to Big Brother, the country’s supreme leader. However, as Winston starts to question and challenge Big Brother’s wisdom and investigate the truth behind what was taught to the people, he finds that he is alone in his struggle for liberty. Soon, he makes the mistake of trusting the wrong men, where he is tortured and brainwashed, and he ultimately fails to resist the psychological manipulation and succumbs to Big Brother’s subjugation of minds. He is finally ''converted'' to accept Big Brother’s wisdom and to love him. As he was once the last man in Europe capable of individual thought, he dies as a man but is reborn as another mindless slave of the …show more content…
The world did not, at least for now, witness a Big Brother who employed despotism to govern his territories. Despite this superficial success, the “ominous powers” above the common people throughout the world had however managed to slowly undermine the majority of the people’s abilities to rationalize independently, all due to information commercialism, mass privacy violations, sociopolitical “games” and other secrecies, and much more. The people’s wariness that kept Big Brother incapable of domination may not yield if the they would always yearn for their rights of
The right to reason and decide is only allowed to Big Brother, the country’s supreme leader. However, as Winston starts to question and challenge Big Brother’s wisdom and investigate the truth behind what was taught to the people, he finds that he is alone in his struggle for liberty. Soon, he makes the mistake of trusting the wrong men, where he is tortured and brainwashed, and he ultimately fails to resist the psychological manipulation and succumbs to Big Brother’s subjugation of minds. He is finally ''converted'' to accept Big Brother’s wisdom and to love him. As he was once the last man in Europe capable of individual thought, he dies as a man but is reborn as another mindless slave of the …show more content…
The world did not, at least for now, witness a Big Brother who employed despotism to govern his territories. Despite this superficial success, the “ominous powers” above the common people throughout the world had however managed to slowly undermine the majority of the people’s abilities to rationalize independently, all due to information commercialism, mass privacy violations, sociopolitical “games” and other secrecies, and much more. The people’s wariness that kept Big Brother incapable of domination may not yield if the they would always yearn for their rights of