1984: A NovelProjects life under perfected state controls. It presages with no uncertainty the horrors and sterility, the policing of every thought, action and word, the extinction of truth and history, the condensation of speech and writing, the utter subjection of every member of the Party. The story concerns itself with Winston, a worker in the Records Department, who is tormented by tenuous memories, who is unable to identify himself wholly with Big Brother and The Party. It follows his love for Julia, who also outwardly conforms, inwardly rebels, his hopefulness in joining the Brotherhood, a secret organization reported to be sabotaging The Party, his faith in O'Brien, as a fellow disbeliever, his trust in the proles (the cockney element not under the organization) as the basis for an overall uprising. But The Party is omniscient, and it is O'Brien who puts him through the torture to cleanse him of all traitorous opinions, a terrible, terrifying torture whose climax, keyed to Winston's most secret nightmare, forces him to betray even Julia. He emerges, broken, beaten, a drivelling member of The Party. Composed, logically derived, this grim forecasting blueprints the means and methods of mass control, the techniques of maintaining power, the fundamentals of political duplicity, and offers as arousing a picture as the author's previous Animal Farm. Certain to create interest, comment, and consideration. |
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Page 97
... hand felt for his and gave it a fleeting squeeze . It could not have been ten seconds , and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together . He had time to learn every detail of her hand . He explored the long fingers ...
... hand felt for his and gave it a fleeting squeeze . It could not have been ten seconds , and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together . He had time to learn every detail of her hand . He explored the long fingers ...
Page 149
... hand while the other , enormous at the end of a bony arm , clawed the air men- acingly above his head . His voice , made metallic by the amplifiers , boomed forth an endless catalogue of atroci- ties , massacres , deportations ...
... hand while the other , enormous at the end of a bony arm , clawed the air men- acingly above his head . His voice , made metallic by the amplifiers , boomed forth an endless catalogue of atroci- ties , massacres , deportations ...
Page 197
... hand . It might fall anywhere : on the crown , on the tip of the ear , on the upper arm , on the elbow- The elbow ! He had slumped to his knees , almost paralyzed , clasping the stricken elbow with his other hand . Everything had ...
... hand . It might fall anywhere : on the crown , on the tip of the ear , on the upper arm , on the elbow- The elbow ! He had slumped to his knees , almost paralyzed , clasping the stricken elbow with his other hand . Everything had ...
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