Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU! (348 words)
by Dincht - written on 09.04.08 (Very useful, 125 readings)
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This was (and still is) one of my most favourite novels I have ever read, and I've read it a few times. Normally I would never read a novel more than once but the dystopian world which George Orwell portrays is magnificent. I first read this novel a couple of years ago when I was studying English Literature and it was the only novel that I studied that I actually enjoyed, from the start all the way through there is suspense on an unprecidented scale and even though the novel was written and published around 1948-9 it can be seen as a prophetic piece as many of the things that Orwell touches upon in the book have actually happend (although not as ...

My interpretation of this book (209 words)
by Pietroberri - written on 06.02.08 (Useful, 128 readings)
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Most of the critics (and reviews) I have read about this book are based on the idea of Big brother. I have always thought that 1984 is not a book about Big Brother only, it is a book about the conflicts between our private lives and our public lives in a more wider sense. The plot of the book is fascinating. We are in the future (it does not matter than 1984 is now the past) and we live in a society where people have lost their privacy. Even their past is no longer sure and protected from the eye of the all over present Big Brother. Can love exist in this world? This is in my view the central topic of the book. The main characters of the ...

Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell: 22 Years Ago (1151 words)
by a-true-ben - written on 29.10.06 (Very useful, 265 readings)
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I'll assume most people will have heard of Orwell's 1984 - even if you have only the vaguest idea what it's about, certain phrases such as Big Brother and Room 101 have become parts of our popular culture (generally for the worse of TV). The fact that the book itself may be described as literature, however, means I reckon far fewer have actually read it unless given the chance/forced to at school. Certainly that was the case for me, until this summer when I decided to put that right. 1984 was Orwell's final novel, written in 1948 (he simply transposed the last two digits to set his dystopian vision in the not-so-distant future). It's actually amazing that it ...