Orwell, a socialist who fought against Franco, watched appalled as the great Soviet experiment was reduced to a totalita But in the long run, all that does not matter, because George Orwell got it right. Its characters lack depth, its rhetoric is sometimes didactic, its plot (well, half of it anyway) was lifted from Zumyatin’s We, and the lengthy Goldstein treatise shoved into the middle is a flaw which alters the structure of the novel like a scar disfigures a face. Required reading for students since it was published, it ranks among the most terrifying novels ever written.more The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's prescience of modern life-the ubiquity of television, the distortion of the language-and his ability to construct such a thorough version of hell. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of the novel is Orwell's pre Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real.
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Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real.