1984 (book)

1984 is a book by the British writer George Orwell, largely written in 1948 and published in 1949. It is a famous dystopia, a vision of the Western world in the year 1984, in which the individual is completely outgunned in a fight against a totalitarian regime. It's a warning against totalitarian regimes, such as nazi Germany that just reports wasStalin's Soviet Union and.

The book is written in Dutch translated by Halbo c. Cabbage (1950),[1]  and Tinke Davids (1984).

Famous is the pronunciation Big brother is watching you. Big Brother or big brother is the unprecedented, omnipotent leader of the totalitarian regime in Oceania where Winston Smith, the main character of the book, lives.



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[hide] *1 Background  ==Background[ Edit] == The story is a bitter satire on a political system that has a perfect grip on the doings of the nationals. The only political party controlled the soul of man and so the whole mechanism of love and hate. The ideology of this party is called ENGSOC. Although this originally pursued a Socialist ideal, is nothing remaining after the revolution. It should be noted that both theStalinist Bolsheviks/as the Nazis called themselves (national) Socialists.
 * 2 the story
 * 3 Operations
 * 4 other references to the book
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 see also
 * 7 Other dystopias
 * 8 external links

A distinctive pronunciation is: "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. " What matters is that the Party can say that two plus two is five, and that changed the whole history in the archives is, as if they never been otherwise. In other words: two plus two is not four, or three, or six, but what the party says it is. A few party slogans from the book are:

George Orwell knows this with a very clear justifying report to give a core of truth . Then there are the various ministries with their striking names: the Ministry of Peace is engaged in warfare, the Ministry of Truth in the State archives pseudohistory carried out to ensure that the party always perfect predictions, the Ministry of Welfare (English: "plenty") distributes food and beverages and assume a low standard of living and the Ministry of Love is concerned with totalitarian control, punishing and torturing so that all nationals are dedicated followers of Big Brother (if they aren't).
 * War is peace (war is peace)
 * Freedom is slavery (freedom is slavery)
 * Ignorance is strength (ignorance is strength)

One of the means through which the Party tries to keep the grip on the citizens is a new language: Newspeak (in the original English book as ' Newspeak ' referred to). Newspeak is an extremely compressed form of the English language, in which the party has ensured that all the words that might have a negative effect on her, have been deleted or have a different meaning. It put into words of ' misdenk ' (Newspeak for "bad opinions ') will be prevented in advance.

1984 is also a book about language and semantics. When words lose their meaning and people do not have enough words to express their thoughts, they can not only no longer speak but also no longer think.

The regime know in the book even in the mind of the main character to penetrate, and him finally to keep the State and party. Behavior is completely pre-programmed. Romantic love and traditions are completely obliterated as forces. A very grim parallel is drawn with Stalin's Russia. Big Brother would go for Joseph Stalin , Leon Trotskyfor Emmanuel Goldstein . At one point, the main character old acquaintances in prison, some even betrayed by their own children (also this occurred in Stalin's Russia. The child was awarded a distinction).

The reader will be able to take for granted nothing more. Is the war really underway, or shoot the missiles the Government itself to keep the people meek? Is the book of Goldstein really though Goldstein? Are Big Brother and Emmanuel Goldstein is? The main character lives like in a (nasty) dream.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The ideas in the book are not completely detached from reality. In the years that Orwell at that time worked as a reporter in the various wars, he noted with regularity on that the press sometimes had a double agenda, and writings as truth brought those not at all had happened. In the preface to his book he wrote Animal Farm on freedom of the press in England, and he warned that strong Khalil for the totalitarian tendencies that he observed. That the left-wing intellectuals, especially the people who were with the freedoms should monitor, totalitarianism of the Soviet Union, where precisely the freedoms under fire, scared him.Publish Animal Farm, that has a critical view on the Soviet Union, would have cost him a lot of trouble. The preface to Animal Farm is only somewhere in the 1970s appeared.

<p lang="en" len="248" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The dreary and drab living conditions in the book 1984 are not only by that of the Soviet Union, but also inspired by the extremely austere post-war life in England where to 1953 food and clothing were rationed. ==The story<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The boundaries are not entirely sure, they are not explicitly mentioned in the book, only the four corner Tangier, Brazzaville, Darwin. Hong Kong as disputed area indicated.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Winston Smith is a lower Party worker in the Ministry of truth. His job is changing the newspaper archives. As a party member he is subject to strict control, up to in his own flat, using a ' telescherm '. Life is dull and drab. He lives in London, capital of the province of Air Strip 1 of Oceania. This country is constantly at war.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Warfare is an end in itself for the States of the world of Winston Smith. With job on the war and the war economy are food and beverages distributed and freedoms curtailed. Herein one can see a parallel with the political situation of the 1940s and 1950s, but might also be with contemporary developments.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The straitjacket in which he needs to run is going to him more and more convenient. At one point he does something ongehoords: he buys a diary and begins to write his thoughts on this. These are, according to him, the only thing the party can not take away from him or can manipulate. He meets Julia, whom he falls in love with. She is, although outward a fanatical party worker, also someone who has enough of the straitjacket imposed by the Party and doubts the standards and values. They go to bed with each other. Also this is unheard of, there to serve, not sex for reproduction and for pleasure. At wits end they take contact O'Brien, a senior party member who is also a member of the resistance. He gives Winston a book of Emmanuel Goldstein, the fled opponent of Big Brother, in which criticised ENGSOC destructive.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The thought police, which fights foreign ideas, get them eventually to unwind. O'Brien turns out to be an agent and takes itself to the interrogation and torture.Goldsteins book turns out to have been written by himself. On the question of Winston or Big Brother exists, he gets an evasive answer. To his question where this really about goes, he will answer: power. This means to him, among other things, that he cannot decide whether two plus two is four. Winston is tortured, mentally broken down, indoctrinated and extradited to his greatest fear: rats; not only to make him confess that he doubted the official truth, but also to give him the Party and Big Brother to do love.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After this treatment is Winston released and we find him back in a cafe. The telescherm calls with much fanfare something about a great military victory in Africa; Next, we come to know that he has and he shot this scene is gedagdroomd. In his last moments he thinks: ' I have the victory on myself. I have big brother sweet. ' ==Operations<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p lang="en" len="70" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">1984 is modified several times for film, television, and Theatre:

==Other references to the book<span class="mw-editsection" len="351" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="324" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * 1984, American television series from 1953
 * 1984(1956), a
 * 1984, a radio play
 * 1984, an opera from 2005
 * 1984, a play written by Canadian playwright David Elendune
 * , a 1984play by Michael Gene Sullivan<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-huffi_2-0" len="169" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2]
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four, a British television series from 1984
 * Nineteen Eighty-Four, a film from 1984
 * Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]
 * In the story of the Black Dossier comic book series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comes the world from 1984 for.
 * The television program Big Brother is named after the Big Brother from the book
 * Various musicians and artists over the years have albums or songs named after elements from the book, or the lyrics of their songs even directly on the book based.
 * The advertising campaign of Steve Jobs to the first Mac launch.
 * in 1999 was elected in 1984 Le Mondes election of the 100 best books of the century and in Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language Novels, and in 2002 in the list of most important books of world literature (composition Swedish Academy). In 2003, the book for the Big Readin list. The book was also elected in the Dutch list of best foreign books.
 * Originally, the book does not play in 1984 but in 1980. However by delay, largely due to illness, and eventually this was 1982 1984.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="163" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4]