Between 3−4 stars rating, 24 April 2013 An astounding, very thought-provoking work of art
By: Melisa
I got to this book due to my recent interest in the dystopian genre, and I was very well surprised of what awaits me when I started it. 1984 was written by Orwell back in the 1940s, in the era of post Cold-War era – being one of his most notable works as the prophecy of the future – the dystopian era. Orwell eerily projects his prophecy into a very, amazingly detailed world – from the extreme regulation of speech, a constant monitoring of individuals, manipulation of history on regular basis (the party, spearheaded by the dictator ruler called Big Brother, even rewrote the Times newspaper on daily basis in the novel!), to the intricate works of... See More
manipulating people thoughts so that it would be aligned to the party’s ideology, any difference from it and you would be accused of grave crime (coining the term thought-crime that is used even today.)
Orwell portrayed very well the depth of human manipulation and dictatorship to eerie accuracy. Not stopping at that, Orwell also depicted the what-if world where freedom of expression and basically, freedom of everything was regulated. Quoting Winston Smith, the protagonist of the novel, “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
Bottomline is, I would definitely recommend this book to everyone that is eager to try their hands on dystopian genre. Very well recommended.