Let me know of your opinions and examples.
Let me know of your opinions and examples.
If you have a look around, there have been multiple threads on the subject.Originally Posted by EndoGlastic
Short answer - no, not even close.
Start here.
You need to remember that the book isn't predictive in any way - it was a warning, a warning of what life could be if totalitarianism is allowed to reign unchecked.
Go to work, get married, have some kids, pay your taxes, pay your bills, watch your tv, follow fashion, act normal, obey the law and repeat after me: "I am free."
Anon
Nah . . . it's becoming more "Brave New World" than it is "1984".
Basically todays society is not how he predicted yet there were small pieces he did get right. Such as the telescreens... the fact of being watched, if you look around today video cameras are every where. If you walk around a city, you are just about being recored constantly, possibly being watched. Another is when Julia and Winston are above the antique shop and they notice a rat. Notice how Julia is the dominant one to take care of it while Winston cowers in fear. Women have a more dominant role today and I think with that segment he was touching upon that prediction.
"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it"
He imagined about a world of totalitarianism and now the world is on the contrary not going toward it
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
I'd have to disagree on the rat.
The reason for Winston's fear is all about what is to come in Room 101.
Big Brother, O'Brien, Goldstein.... against Mrs Parsons and Winston's wife - women don't feature apart from Julia.
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