Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell Reviews

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I first came across 'Nineteen Eighty Four' by George Orwell when i was recomended it by a friend. A whole year past, untill i finaly decided it was a bout time i read it. I was brimming with excitement all the way home once i'd purchased it, and started reading it straight away....i wasn't disapointed! 'Nineteen Eighty Four' is a ...

Ahhhhhhhhhhh: ‘tis that time of the year again. Tim Henman has limply gone out of Wimbledon at the hands of a hungry unknown Eastern European, kids have longer nights in which to terrorise the local community and it rains slightly less than normal. Must be summer… A recent, and most unwelcome, addition to the summer schedule is that ...

Hunting around Amazon for something to read I stumbled across this classic and decided that it was high time I read it. Although I am not the biggest fan, shamefully I must admit I do sometimes watch Channel Four's Big Brother when it's on and also Room 101 (which appears in the novel) therefore was intrigued to discover where these ideas had ...

The oppressive and futuristic society of George Orwell?s Nineteen Eighty-Four is widely known, with the book becoming one of the most recognised novels of the twentieth century. Many aspects of the plot are similar in context to earlier Dystopian novels: Aldous Huxley dealt with similar notions of human ...

---Introduction--- Throughout the aeons come ideas. In the greatest examinations it's been proven over and over again that material things can be destroyed, peoples crushed under the weight of superior forces but the enduring tenet that out lives all else is that ideas are immutable. The last couple of centuries have seen significant ...

As we enter an age where technology advances have become so dramatic in affecting our lives, we see that books written in earlier years have some truth in them. This can not be shown so clear, frightening and no more so in George Orwell?s Classic 1984. In a way we can see similarities to our lives today with CCTV and the all seeing 'Big ...

I would recommend George Orwell's Ninetenn Eighty Four as a worthwhile book for many. It serves as a constant reminder and warning of the danger of totalitarianism, yet is written with refereshing sub plots such as the love story between Julia and Winston in order to keep the reader amused and engaged. Written in 1948, Orwell turned ...

What a brilliant author Orwell is. Despite being dead for almost fifty years this sharp and politically affective book still has that cutting edge that only comes with one of Orwell's works. I was completely engrossed in what I found to be a compelling tale showing emotion and making the strong political statement that always comes with ...

'1984' is very difficult to define. It can be viewed as a prophetic vision of the future, as pure science fiction, as political commentary or even a tragic love story. Its enduring appeal and its greatness as a novel is due to the fact that all these labels apply. In order to understand the motivation behind writing 1984 we have ...

I put the paperback down on the table, and feel a sense of despair coming over me. "This is it" I think. "This is it". Every time I walk down the street, I feel this despair and isolation. Can a book, just 300 pages of words, really change your life so much? Every time I pick up a newspaper, and read the first few headlines, ...

As part of my English language course, we studied an extract of this book. However, being English Language and not English Literature we didn't get to read the whole book. From the extract, something about Newspeak, an artificial language created to limit freedom of thought, I thought that the book seemed interested, as well as being an ...

The task of predicting the future perfectly is an arduous one, which only the best should encounter upon. George Orwell is just that. Not fearful of the inevitable lifespan bounding his literature, in 1984 George Orwell sets a new standard for future based novels. Brave New World is an example of a brilliant piece of literature, although powerful ...

I call Nineteen Eighty Four a timeless classic because after 54 years, since it was written the ideals encrypted within the pages are still relevant to the peoples of this world today. Usually, literature, novels in general which anticipate and focus on a futuristic world become irrelevant when peoples of this world are actually living in the ...

It is not very often that I say of a novel that it is one that absolutely everyone must read at least once in his or her lifetime. But George Orwell’s novel,” 1984” is just one such novel. Although the novel was written such a long time ago (in 1949) and although world events have moved on so that the concept of totalitarianism ...

Books are great, really. If I could, I would read all day and all night and all day and night again, with a little bit left over for playing football in. Y’know, it would be great. Though I suspect a lot of the time would be spent reading some books over and over and over and over again. Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca, loads of Agatha ...

George Orwell, like many social idealists of the mid-20th century, was horrified by the political excesses of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. 1984 was Orwell's often macabre fictional interpretation of the 'perfect society' turned into a living nightmarenightmare. Seventeen years after the novel's famed date and eight ...

1984 in brief: Written in 1948, George Orwell describes the world of 1984 through the character, Winston Smith. It is a world where your every move is recorded, and every conversation monitored. There is no freedom of speech and everything- TV, food, clothes, jobs, healthcare, money, housing etc.- is tightly controlled by the government. ...