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It was actually written in 1948. That is why the book title is 1984, Eric Blair (George Orwell's pseudonym) decided to reverse the number 48 and 84.
That was the really only interesting part for me. Again this could've been achieved in a short story.
Is it though? A lot of the ideas and theories are from Stalinist Soviet Union of the time. The propaganda and authoritarianism was experienced in UK during the war. The paranoia of the society was probably felt in England during the war. It definitely was in Germany, and is brilliantly portrayed in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin (1947). I'm no historian and don't read much on this topic but wasn't particularly shocked or horrified by Party antics but found them lacking. Room 101 was a let down.
The whole book was a let down for me. Again, would've been better as a short story
fun fact: much of the book was inspired by orwell's experience working for the BBC when england was still an imperial power.
the idea of newspeak in particular was based on his experience translating news stories into a simplified dialect of english for broadcast in the colonies in which he found it difficult-to-impossible to express sufficient nuance to faithfully report anti-imperial sentiment.
¿have you seen the news in your own country lately? doubleplussungood
comunism? I see a lot of both. It's not about a specific Ideology. It's abot not having individual freedom. And you might think about comunism but then again what do you think about Telework, Neuromarketing, Consume, and polarization.
I do love the concept of this being communism when the writer was a socialist and we're pretty much living this in good ole "free and great" America.
The author was a socialist, but he was also anti-communist.
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It was actually written in 1948. That is why the book title is 1984, Eric Blair (George Orwell's pseudonym) decided to reverse the number 48 and 84.
That was the really only interesting part for me. Again this could've been achieved in a short story.
Is it though? A lot of the ideas and theories are from Stalinist Soviet Union of the time. The propaganda and authoritarianism was experienced in UK during the war. The paranoia of the society was probably felt in England during the war. It definitely was in Germany, and is brilliantly portrayed in Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin (1947). I'm no historian and don't read much on this topic but wasn't particularly shocked or horrified by Party antics but found them lacking. Room 101 was a let down.
The whole book was a let down for me. Again, would've been better as a short story
fun fact: much of the book was inspired by orwell's experience working for the BBC when england was still an imperial power. the idea of newspeak in particular was based on his experience translating news stories into a simplified dialect of english for broadcast in the colonies in which he found it difficult-to-impossible to express sufficient nuance to faithfully report anti-imperial sentiment.
¿have you seen the news in your own country lately? doubleplussungood
comunism? I see a lot of both. It's not about a specific Ideology. It's abot not having individual freedom. And you might think about comunism but then again what do you think about Telework, Neuromarketing, Consume, and polarization.
I do love the concept of this being communism when the writer was a socialist and we're pretty much living this in good ole "free and great" America.
The author was a socialist, but he was also anti-communist.
