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Summary: Orwell's masterpiece
Review: "Does Big Brother exist?" "Yes." "In the same way I exist?" "You do not exist, Winston."Beauty can sometimes take strange forms. Beneath the decaying architecture and verminous rats of Ninteen Eighty-For's gangrenous surface there is a glorious centre, one which screams out profoundly that it is a master of all it says and that George Orwell is the master of his cxreation. The book was completed, ironically, in Ninteen Fourty-Eight when Orwell had seen the future. He had fought in the Spanish Civil War and had lived through the Second World War. The future, as he saw it, was a brutal labrynth of pain and torture, where the only way to escape the pain of everyday life was to become oblivious to it: to succumb without reervation. Orwell casts us into a paralell universe where events post 1945 turned out quite differently. Among the shambolic ruins of the ninteenth-century buildings there exists the Party: a totalitarian entity which monitors its citizens with greater zeal than it fights its wars. The Party controls the vast super state of Oceania, permanently at war with its corresponding entities, Eastasia or alternately Eurasia. Winston Smith is the fragile everyman, a man who has somehow kept his sanity and some degree of individuality. He rebels against the regime by falling in love with a woman who thinks along similar lines. His rebellion is touching yet we know what it ultimately entails. But there is an underlying sense of poetry to the great book as those who read Lord of The Rings will testify to feeling a sense of history. The novel makes no excuses for its treatment of the charcters. People are brutalised, subverted, their minds twisted into bizzare forms of life and then ultimately destroyed. Yet through all the turns it takes, Ninteen Eighty-Four leaves a deep impression on us and its message echoes throughout our society. Beauty is such a strange thing. "There can be no love, except love for the party. If you want an image of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face...forever."
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Summary: The greatest novel of the 20th century
Review: Simply put, I beleive 1984 to be the greatest piece of writing of the 20th century.
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Summary: The greatest work of the 20th Century
Review: What can one say about this book that has not been said before...it is one of the most powerful works one can ever read, which is forever fresh and remains relevant no matter what era it is read in.
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Summary: Fascinating study of totalitarian society &human nature
Review: George Orwell has to be one of the most gifted satirical authors (and prophets) of the 20th century. I did not read this for school, although the only reason I picked it up in the first place was to be ahead of my Lit. class next year. I would be glad to read this book many times over, and hope my classmates will engage in some of the discussions on the books undertones on the strength (or lack thereof) of the human spirit that my family did. This amazing piece of work stands as my favorite book of all time, and the starting point that lead me to dystopian works of Aldous Huxley, and even Kurt Vonnegut.
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Summary: An Homage to the English Language
Review: 1984 is about several things but mostly it is about language: the fact that a vibrant and expanding language is the greatest sign of freedom while the destruction and reduction of language is the path to opression. This and the description of the many approaches used by the state to assure the loyalty of its people make this an all-time great. Plotwise, the key approach is the use of Emanuel Goldberg to locate and draw out those who are not loyal to Big Brother. My only problem with the book is the reprint of Goldberg's entire manuscript, which unnecessarily rehashes much of the first third of the book. But this one flaw is not enough to take it down a star. This needs to be read by everyone.
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Summary: very good i enjoyed two thumbs up
Review: george oewells greates book ever . showa the up and downs of totalitarianism u have to read it.
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Summary: This Book gives you Insight of Human Mind
Review: This book tells us about how one person's Total thinking can be altered by means of a simple tool called Torture.
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Summary: Very realistic!
Review: In my opinion this is Orwell's best novel and is also my favorite book. It can happen to us as long as their are power hungry human beings in this world.
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Summary: this book gets better every time i read it
Review: naturally, the first thing i noticed in this book was orwell's depiction of communism and fascism. but orwell also drew a parallel between the oceanic society and religion, where a bad thought is a crime, hypocracy is common, the demands of the religion considered freedom, ignorance your only true strength and, yes, two plus two can equal five. Big Brother can portray not only a dictator, but god. does he really exist? no one has ever seen him. of course, this is only secondary to the main theme of this book, totalitarian governments. this book can be interpreted on many levels. to all those people saying this book was slow and boring: i'm 15 and if i can understand it, you should be able to also.
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Summary: Yet another inspiration.......
Review: In my British Lit class we had to read a wide variety of books. From Jane Eyre to Brave New World to 1984, I enjoyed every one. 1984 is a truely inspirational book that engrossed me in it until I finished, two weeks earlier than we were supposed to. It, as well as all the other books I read in that class, made me want to go back to the classics and read them. It gave me inspiration that not all classics are dull and boring.
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