1984 my thoughts

[finalbreath55]

:The book 1984 brings so many thoughts apon someone, like when you speak you use emotion my teacher told me that today in our class disscusion .Well see 1984 the book is so inspiring it makes you wounder what knid of man was orwell? I just want to meet him talk to him get his perspective and all of his other thoughts on life ! i wounder these things every time i pick this book up. in an essance this book is the future it is the past it is now what more did this man now maybe he new these things like using history he was one of the few people who used that resourse wich was history so many prodictions . for example the conflicts repeating itself like when we helped iraq agianst iran and now there using our wepons agianst us!!!hummm.so another way orwell could have prodidted was the medical advances ! when this book was written in 1984 there were just starting advances so in a way he knew that wed only wanna make life easier and more advanced wellmaybe *** i read my hole prospective will change who knows! :confused

[jgg]

Honestly kid, learn to read AND write before posting anything. You just make my head hurt.

[arcanise]

next time wright in a clear and easy to red font

[ContraryOpinion]

:when this book was written in 1984 there were just starting advances

The first thing I was annoyed with when reading your highly illiterate 'thoughts' on 1984, IT WAS NOT WRITTEN IN 1984 (it's illegal to have a full book published on the net if the author wasn't dead since the 1950's anyway, in which he did indeed die in that year), it was written during the 1940's when this type of totalitarianism started to emerge in some places like USSR. He was speaking in a sort-of future tense, a "what if" situation - in this case, something like this continuing in other states and well into the late twentieth centuary. Also, nothing much in technology (apart from computers, the development of the internet, and *ugh*, video games.. *shrieks*) is different now than what was in 1984, so advances weren't just "starting" to advance, they were well on their way in some respects. (Thus, you could tell it wasn't written in 1984, for any idiot by then would know that it's too expensive for even 'Outer Party' members to use typical transmission technologies, an Internet Protocal would need to be established) As for anything else, it was too illiterate to make out.

[nns]

I think you guys are being to tough on finalbreath55; ...1984 brought him/her so many thoughts... he/she coudn't think clearly.
To put it in orwell's words: "The writer either has a meaning and cannot express it, or he(she) inadvertently says something else, or he(she) is almost indifferent as to whether his words mean anything or not"
The language is "ugly and inaccurate because (his/her) thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of (his/her) language makes it easier for (him/her) to have foolish thoughts." However, Orwell insists "The point is that the process is reversible" [I am quoting from "Politics and the English Language", you can find the whole essay on this very website]
It needs training, but it is reversible.

In any case, it is true that 1984 was NOT written in 1984: to my best knowledge, it was actually first published in 1948 and the title was obtained by reversing the last two digits of that year: 48 - 84. A smart guy, Mr. Blair.
But why so? the answer to this question in the next post. Or maybe you think about it, and answer it yourself. Is that OK, finalbreath?

cheers,
nns

[softball336]

This book was published in 1949! Why would it refer to WWI and the Great Depression as things Winston remembers if it all happened in 1984? It was a book that predicted the future of the USA. It said how technology would limit us and how classes are ranked, perhaps not by money, but by education and are then reinforced by money. Anyway, read the copywright before you make assumptions.

[Asa Adams]

I would have finished your post finalbreath55, If your font had not been so annoying.

[Asa Adams]

. Anyway, read the copywright before you make assumptions.

what the heck do you mean "read the copy right before making assumptions" ???

[rabid reader]

This book was published in 1949! Why would it refer to WWI and the Great Depression as things Winston remembers if it all happened in 1984? It was a book that predicted the future of the USA. It said how technology would limit us and how classes are ranked, perhaps not by money, but by education and are then reinforced by money. Anyway, read the copywright before you make assumptions.

Umm... it took place in London... which is in England... it off handishly refers to US (and Canada) as just another part of the great nation of Oceania (which basically consists of all the old English colonies).