Reading for pleasure Book : 1984 Author : George Orwell. The Book '1984' is a dystopian novel which was written in 1949 by George Orwell. I personally love this book because the words are perfectly written to give out this feeling that warns us about the impending dangers in the future of surveillence technology that gives out a spine chilling feeling. The line "Big brother is watching you" literally made my head turn around in search of anyone who was indirectly spying on me.
The chief character of the novel is Winston who works for the ministry of truth . The novel entangles deeper and deeper into him breaking laws one by one. He first breaches the rule and commits the crime of thoughts . He writes down his day to day actions in a diary , in the process of commiting crimes he falls in love with a girl named Julia and the two get into a relationship and feel like they are free from Big Brother's omnipresent gaze in Winston's shop which he rents for Mr.Charrington. They constantly break the rules framed by the ministry of love and form a rumoured revolution called the Brotherhood.
Winston calls his favourite colleuge to join the revolution. But it turns out to be that Mr.Charrington and Winston's colleguewere a part of the secret police of truth. The two are jailed for having thoughts of their own and tortured by the ministry of love for getting close to each other. The two are shown meeting each other in the same place as though they never met before .
Winston's thoughts of rebellion all vanished with no trace . He is left with thoughts of loyality for his work and admiration for Big Brother. The themes of corruption , political domination along with Orwellian horror imagination of English Socialism was a sensational book in the times where Stalin was trying every math to thrust his domination over Russia. Readers can still relate with the idea of a Governement so strong that it dominates thought , emotions , individuality and identity itself.
