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George Orwell
George Orwell
Nonfiction
•1933 – Down and Out in Paris and London
•1937 – The Road to Wigan Pier
•1938 – Homage to Catalonia
1984
YEAR: 1948
GENRE: Dystopia, roman à clef,
satire
SUBJECT: In a totalitarian future
society, a man, whose daily work is re-
writing history, tries to rebel by falling in
love.
PLOT
Who controls the past
controls the future. Who
controls the present controls
the past.
‘Perhaps one did not
want to be loved so
much as to be
understood’
Freedom is the freedom to say that two
plus two make four. If that is granted, all
The best books… are
those that tell you what
you know already.
The choice for mankind lies between
freedom and happiness and for the great
bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
DO IT TO
JULIA!
END IS
BEGINNING