In “Orwell and the Obvious” Michael Clune makes the …show more content…
. . . It is the only reliable ‘truth’ human beings can fall back upon” once totalitarianism destroys the space of civil society.8 “But,” she continues, “this ‘truth’ is empty or rather no truth at all, because it does not reveal anything...The book is not a transparent political statement. An attentive reading will show how 1984’s fictional political regime serves to render its surfaces opaque. From the historical experience of totalitarianism, Orwell has extracted the principle of the total artwork…The book is not concerned with exposing the harsh realities of truth, but what happens what the individual is deprived of their artistic senses.