Big Brother is Watching You.
The year is 1984, or perhaps better put analogously as a time in the not-too-distant future, where England, or what is now known as Airstrip One is in a state of perpetual war. Indeed the whole of Oceania, a super-state comprising all the European nations, North America as well as Australia, is continually at war with one of the other two super-states, Eurasia and Eastasia. Oceania is ruled by the Party, led by a figure called Big Brother. The social hierarchy of Oceania consists of three main groups: the Inner Party members, who hold high posts in the administration of the state, and who live lavishly with an abundance of most luxuries; the Outer Party members, including the protagonist, live in dull flats where only the bare essentials are available, and because of the war even those are regularly in shortage; and Proles, or the proletariat who are the lowest social group and treated by the Party as not much more than animals, using then only for cheap labour. These classes contribute approximately 1%, 14% and 85% respectively to the population of Oceania.Life in 1984 is no longer anything as we know it - the Party controls anything and everything, from what is shown on the telescreens (wall-mounted audio-video displays used
Winston, however develops a sense of rebelliousness, a sort of tacet defiance and hatred towards the Party (which even in thoughts would result in vapourisation) and in his quest to find others with a like-mindedness to himself, he meets Julia, a younger woman of 26 who works in Fiction Department. They fall in love and over several months have an affair in which they meet in a secret, isolated location where they make love and share their feelings toward the Party. Together they take part in acts of rebellion against the Party, which is extremely dangerous, given the level of surveillance in Oceania. Soon they come into contact with a man named O'Brien, who initiates them into an underground society, the Brotherhood, in the hope of one day overthrowing the Party and restoring freedom to the individual. The real freedom, suggested by Winston is "the freedom to say that two plus two makes four." But can this O'Brien be trusted? Or will they ever succeed under the ever-watchful telescreens of Big Brother and the spies of the Thoughtpolice? to monitor people with an inbuilt camera and microphone), which is invariably Party propaganda of some description, to the very thoughts one is allowed to possess - anything else is a thoughtcrime and any sort of unorthodoxy against the wishes of the Part is punished by 'vapourisation' where you and any record of your existence is utterly wiped out. The English we speak now is deemed inadequate in its use of language and ambiguity and as a result the Party is adopting a new language, Newspeak, which is intended to promote the
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Approximate Word count = 1059
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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