“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984
1984, by George Orwell is a book written in 1949, set 35 years into the future, that attempted to show what life would have looked like in a world in evil and chaos. The government stayed in power by using violence and force, by rewriting history everyday, distorting the truth and brainwashing the people to venality. Many people argue that the genre of 1984 is science fiction, but the only reason is because the time period of the book is laid out in the future.
Winston Smith, the main protagonist is a low class member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, work, his own home included, the …show more content…
Winston and Julia travel together to O’Brien’s luxurious apartment. O’Brien leads a life of luxury that Winston can only imagine. O’Brien confirms to Winston and Julia that, like them, he hates the Party, and says that he works against it as a member of the Brotherhood. He admits Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, the manifesto of the Brotherhood. Winston reads the book—a blend of several forms of class-based twentieth-century social theory—to Julia in the room above the store. Suddenly, soldiers barge in and seize them. Mr. Charrington, the property owner of the store, is revealed as having been a member of the Thought Police all along. Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O’Brien, too, is a Party spy who simply pretended to be a member of the Brotherhood in order to trap Winston into committing an open act of rebellion against the Party. I had always suspected O'Brien, because what he was doing seemed almost too convincing. O’Brien spends months torturing and brainwashing Winston, who struggles to resist. At last, O’Brien sends him to the dreaded Room 101, the
1984, by George Orwell is a book written in 1949, set 35 years into the future, that attempted to show what life would have looked like in a world in evil and chaos. The government stayed in power by using violence and force, by rewriting history everyday, distorting the truth and brainwashing the people to venality. Many people argue that the genre of 1984 is science fiction, but the only reason is because the time period of the book is laid out in the future.
Winston Smith, the main protagonist is a low class member of the ruling Party in London, in the nation of Oceania. Everywhere Winston goes, work, his own home included, the …show more content…
Winston and Julia travel together to O’Brien’s luxurious apartment. O’Brien leads a life of luxury that Winston can only imagine. O’Brien confirms to Winston and Julia that, like them, he hates the Party, and says that he works against it as a member of the Brotherhood. He admits Winston and Julia into the Brotherhood, and gives Winston a copy of Emmanuel Goldstein’s book, the manifesto of the Brotherhood. Winston reads the book—a blend of several forms of class-based twentieth-century social theory—to Julia in the room above the store. Suddenly, soldiers barge in and seize them. Mr. Charrington, the property owner of the store, is revealed as having been a member of the Thought Police all along. Torn away from Julia and taken to a place called the Ministry of Love, Winston finds that O’Brien, too, is a Party spy who simply pretended to be a member of the Brotherhood in order to trap Winston into committing an open act of rebellion against the Party. I had always suspected O'Brien, because what he was doing seemed almost too convincing. O’Brien spends months torturing and brainwashing Winston, who struggles to resist. At last, O’Brien sends him to the dreaded Room 101, the