1984 - George Orwell
George Orwell's "1984" is a book about Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of "The Party" which rules the nation of Oceania. The Party watches him everywhere through devices, which are seemingly a combination of televisions, spewing mind-numbing propaganda twenty-four hours a day, and security cameras, which watch the populace constantly. These are known as telescreens and are never able to be turned off, only down, except for special models possessed only by members of the "Inner Party". He is surrounded on all sides by images of the leader of "The Party", the seemingly omnipresent Big Brother. "The Party" is the ruling power of a supposedly communist state, but in reality is more if a dictatorship in the form of an oligarchy. It is against all expressions of individuality and in fact seeks to remove the possibility of revolution by removing those words that pertain to such affairs from the official language. In short, the society in which Winston Smith fines himself in (run down and dilapidated London in the year 1984) is a prime example of the Science Fiction dystopia. Orwell's book has had so much influence that it would not be inappropriate to describe other
The story is part of the Science Fiction genre. Although Science Fiction stories are generally set in the future and the year 1984 is now eighteen years into the past, the book was written in the year 1949, and the ideas and concepts contained therein were, at the time, revolutionary (in both the figurative and literal sense). The use of jargon and author created words is common in Science Fiction and 1984 is no different. Orwell invented a whole new language in 1984, known as "newspeak", which took the fairly common Science Fiction approach of condensing two or more words into one shorter word. In doing this Orwell managed to give the book a more futuristic feel with the reader being confronted with more and more new words that they do not understand. This is realistic, as words that we take for granted today, such as Internet, did not exist forty years ago. 4. Give a brief description of the main character 3. What is the genre of the story? State why you think this
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Approximate Word count = 1873
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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