Book review of 1984 by George Orwell

George Orwell was born on the 25th of June, India. He was a novelist, and critic, best
known for his remarkably successful novels, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. He began writing
when he was young. He was sent to a school where he first experienced the class system of England.

After he left the Indian Imperial Force, he was struggling to start his writing career, but eventually, his
first major work called “Down and Out in Paris and London” was born in 1933.

One of his most famous books is called Nineteen Eighty-Four was published on the 8 th of June, in
1949. It is a dystopian novella about the life of Winston Smith, a low-ranked member of the so-called
“Party”, ruled by the “Big Brother”.

The word called Dystopia describes a world where the society is scary and frightening, no
question about that it was translated as “bad place”. In the novel 1984, it is present by showing how
the government owns everyone by controlling people’s food, pleasure, time, and will, they even have
compulsory daily exercises through the telescreen.

The so-called “Big Brother” controls every single life and every single people of Oceania through a
telescreen; he is on the streets, in public places, in people’s house, everywhere. They control
people’s minds, what people say, ready or do, in case if someone wants to rebel: Thought police is
aware of the case of Thought crime, which is basically the act of thinking on something that is bad or
is contradictory to the Party’s regulation.

The main character, Winston Smith, has got a diary which is full of his secret thoughts – that
is considered as a Thoughtcrime – all these restrictions brings us into one common conclusion, the
matter of propaganda and totalitarianism. That means, the Party has a method for each type of
regulation-denial to punish its committer. They even manipulate people’s minds and acts; the
protagonist, Winston Smith, has the task of revising old newspapers and articles, and there’s the
memory hole, where all the documents, photographs, or even documents of persons which are not
true or no longer exists, or told not to be true by the government is thrown, burned, and destroyed.

This type of thought control symbolizes the presence of state control and misinformation, they even
control what people can say and HOW: The Newspeak, a vocabulary, which limits their
communications (even in their thoughts) and involves abbreviations, or new words, such as
“doubleplusungood” which means “really bad”, or “bb” which means “Big Brother”.