1984

A detailed Summary of 1984

N "America must be the police force for freedom in the world,"; "The Gulf War was to help the people of Kuwait,"; "Mexico started the Mexican-American war!" All three of these statements are false, yet we see these things in textbooks and our own politicians that run our country often say them. Is this a form of mind control or doublethink? Although it hasn't reached the heights it did in the novel 1984, it is one of the things Eric Blair (George Orwell) warns us about. George Orwell lived in the 1940's, so it is easy to ignore his warnings, but he has every right to warn us and foresaw things that have happened and maybe are still to come.

Eric Blair was born in India, which happens to be the place that changed his career in the future. He was a very pessimistic child; at the age of 18 months he was recorded for the first time and his only word was "beastly". As a little kid he remembered thinking about writing as a career although none of it was serious (I omitted the last bit of the sentence, it's not necessary). But he did in fact keep a sort of deeply descriptive journal in his mind of everything he ever did. He went to Eton College in England where he learned of many writing techniques; of which he mostly disliked.

truth made Blair very angry and is the main reason that he even wrote the book.

The book 1984 is based in the U.K. where the main character, Winston Smith, lives and works at the Ministry of Truth. The Ministry Of Truth's slogan written on its outer wall is, "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." All of these are true in a twisted manner. While during war Oceania's people are relatively at peace with one another. If you have freedom then you would know you were in slavery, but if you did not then you would not be in slavery. And finally, if you are ignorant of the truth you do not have to follow that rule; like when a child first learns to swim he is fearless of the water, but if you tried to teach an adult that has never learned they will be plagued with the fear of drowning. (Nice analogy, could you tie up this paragraph with a finish to it?)

The second event that formed his writing was his involvement in the Spanish-Civil War. He volunteered with the Loyalists until he was injured and fled, but after he left he wrote a remarkable book Homage to Catalonia. In this book he captured the chaos of people and how they reacted to war and its pressures. A passage says, "I have often seen an illiterate militiaman buy one of these [revolutionary] ballads, laboriously spell out the words, and then, when he had got the hang of it, begin singing it to an appropriate tune." To think that someone would just go off singing and praising with out really knowing why is frightening. Also in this book he gave an entire chapter to newspaper articles that defended the Trotskyists. This would be old news to any reader nowadays and Blair was very criticized for adding the chapter (this sentence needs a fuller explanation). But very few people in London knew what was really going on with these people in Spain. The fact that no one knew the!

He met (omit up) with a girl named Julia who posed as the perfect party member, but was really (omit totally) against anything it stood for. They made a hideout in an old storekeeper's building where there was no surveillance by the party. They met (omit up) with someone in the Inner Party (political upper class so to speak) who they thought was in with the Brotherhood (don't need quotes). The Brotherhood is supposed to be a rebellious group against government. It turns out that they were actually under wa

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Approximate Word count = 1593
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

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