People’s lives are boring maybe that’s why they like to imagine a different world inside their heads. But maybe as a professional writer, George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984 to vent out the idea he had inside, which he wanted an outlet, and had the perfect medium to.
For most of us, we always perceive the society as a “self-civilizing” process which would eventually lead us to a world with absolute justice.
Philosophers in ancient Greek, Rome and China derived some early structures of an ideal society from that kind of belief. “Utopia” became a catchphrase since Thomas More’s coined it; While, some people still hold a skeptical view towards this idealized destination, Orwell elaborated his idea by writing a book in his book--- “the …show more content…
It’s loaded with thought-provoking sentences and plots. Orwell depicted a dystopian society, where rebellions are quashed instantly once spotted and voices of dissents are intolerable. We’ve been introduced to peculiar terms like thought crime. Ingsoc surveils its party members through a device called telescreen. Not so difficult when everyone’s under surveillance everywhere they are.
Part One
Reflections about my emotional feelings through my reading.
First of all, I want to thank god that the dystopian future the writer imagined in 1949 didn’t happen. The conditions are terrible in 1984 he depicted, though that’s just to tell a story. Everything repressed, for the first time in life I wanted to belong to a lower class of people in society, like the proletarian.
Besides, the way the party and big brother had everything controlled in Oceania is outlandish but that’s what’s to be expected of novels like this.
Winston’s entire life ended with “He loved Big Brother”. When I got to the end of this book, there’s a feeling where the blood leaves your face, your heart goes heavy and your brain just goes numb. The closing sentence of the novel just bites into your conscience and ethical self.
It feels weird and like I’ve changed a bit along with Winston Smith at the end, to submit to the perspectives that era is filled
For most of us, we always perceive the society as a “self-civilizing” process which would eventually lead us to a world with absolute justice.
Philosophers in ancient Greek, Rome and China derived some early structures of an ideal society from that kind of belief. “Utopia” became a catchphrase since Thomas More’s coined it; While, some people still hold a skeptical view towards this idealized destination, Orwell elaborated his idea by writing a book in his book--- “the …show more content…
It’s loaded with thought-provoking sentences and plots. Orwell depicted a dystopian society, where rebellions are quashed instantly once spotted and voices of dissents are intolerable. We’ve been introduced to peculiar terms like thought crime. Ingsoc surveils its party members through a device called telescreen. Not so difficult when everyone’s under surveillance everywhere they are.
Part One
Reflections about my emotional feelings through my reading.
First of all, I want to thank god that the dystopian future the writer imagined in 1949 didn’t happen. The conditions are terrible in 1984 he depicted, though that’s just to tell a story. Everything repressed, for the first time in life I wanted to belong to a lower class of people in society, like the proletarian.
Besides, the way the party and big brother had everything controlled in Oceania is outlandish but that’s what’s to be expected of novels like this.
Winston’s entire life ended with “He loved Big Brother”. When I got to the end of this book, there’s a feeling where the blood leaves your face, your heart goes heavy and your brain just goes numb. The closing sentence of the novel just bites into your conscience and ethical self.
It feels weird and like I’ve changed a bit along with Winston Smith at the end, to submit to the perspectives that era is filled