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04-13-2007, 10:58 AM
I'm just wondering what other people think the book really is about, sorry if I repeat a thread. I keep reading comments from people who write things like:
"if the allies hadn't won it could be a reality"
"the people of Soviet lived like that"
"why bother, the story is set in 1984"
I have always seen it as a story about how it eventually could (will) be. He just set it in 1984 to have a date, to make people take his warning serious. If it was set too soon people would think it was too unlikely to occur and if it was set later the story wouldn't fit with the fact that it all started after the war. A war is a possible starter of such an event since people will be poor and take any chance to make it better (Hitler used that).
To many people seem to hang up on the fact he uses Soviet as the model for an evil regime. I've always seen it as warning of how our "great" west society would turn into a totalitarian state. Especially it was meaningful at the time the book was written as many people despised Soviet and he meant our society could easy turn the same.
The fact that the society he creates is very similar to Soviet is simply because people who reads the book need something to relate to. At that time, Soviet and communism was the ultimate evil and therefore Soviet was easy to use to make his world seem more cruel. If he wrote the book today, his world would certainly have some influences from Muslim nations or why not our own society. That was probably a bad analogy, it would be too late to write such a book today.
Please let me know your opinions.
"if the allies hadn't won it could be a reality"
"the people of Soviet lived like that"
"why bother, the story is set in 1984"
I have always seen it as a story about how it eventually could (will) be. He just set it in 1984 to have a date, to make people take his warning serious. If it was set too soon people would think it was too unlikely to occur and if it was set later the story wouldn't fit with the fact that it all started after the war. A war is a possible starter of such an event since people will be poor and take any chance to make it better (Hitler used that).
To many people seem to hang up on the fact he uses Soviet as the model for an evil regime. I've always seen it as warning of how our "great" west society would turn into a totalitarian state. Especially it was meaningful at the time the book was written as many people despised Soviet and he meant our society could easy turn the same.
The fact that the society he creates is very similar to Soviet is simply because people who reads the book need something to relate to. At that time, Soviet and communism was the ultimate evil and therefore Soviet was easy to use to make his world seem more cruel. If he wrote the book today, his world would certainly have some influences from Muslim nations or why not our own society. That was probably a bad analogy, it would be too late to write such a book today.
Please let me know your opinions.