The Dystopian World of 1984 Explained
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Published 2017-03-03
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All Comments (21)
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Seriously go read the book though
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When the USA and USSR both agree on banning your book, you’ve done something very right as a writer
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One of the scariest part of the book for me was when one of the characters describes how people can never know about freedom or liberty if those concepts and words dont exist.
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I think the scariest part is by far newspeak. Eliminating anti-party thoughts by restricting and eliminating freethinking capability in itself
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Just finished the book today and it’s honestly soul crushing
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“You can say whatever you want when you raise generations to worship you.” Very important statement.
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INGSOC: "Reality can be whatever i want"
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Fun Fact: 1984 was an early inspiration for Half-Life 2, and some elements of 1984 are still present in the game as well. Like cities just referred as City XX, like with City 17. And most of the citizens barely remember their past before the Combine invaded earth.
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One thing I wish had been in the video is that all of this backstory could be completely made up considering how untrustworthy Oceania is. The characters don’t even know for sure that the year is 1984. The deuteragonist Julia didn’t even think the war was real and believed that Ingsoc only actually controlled England (and just England, not even the entire former UK), with the rest of the world at peace and relatively better off. By the end, the novel neither confirms nor denies her suspicions.
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“The Obliteration of Self” Best emo band name
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Fun Fact: This book was banned in the entirety of the eastern bloc.
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Given recent history and the way "society" is headed, I think more people need to revive this old classic.
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I had to read Animal Farm in eighth grade and there are some deep themes even in that book. Since then I heard more about George Orwell and 1984, so I finally decided to read it, and am more amazed every day how prophetic it actually is.
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Ingsoc: "Eurasia has always been our greatest ally against the evil East Asia in the war against Eurasia with our great ally East Asia."
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As someone with pretty bad memory and self doubt issues, the idea that at any time the government could just completely change what is true and what is false and no one would even acknowledge that anything changed at all is terrifying to me. Because I could totally see myself falling for that.
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Most people read this book and see it as a warning, but it's scary how some read it as an instruction manual.
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Forget vampires, zombies, werewolves, xenocidal aliens or cosmic horrors; 1984 is the most bone-chilling and terrifying piece of fiction I have ever interacted with in my whole life.
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The only sliver of optimism in 1984 is when it explains newspeak after the end of the book: "Newspeak was". WAS. That single verb is the only word in the entire novel that makes us think that the world of 1984 will ever cease to exist.
