SeeGee
03-26-2008, 09:53 PM
Ok, I'm only half way through the book and I have no idea about the author's biography or life ...all I can say is that IMO, this is the most impressionable book I've read in my life!
I rarely look into an author's origins and life experiences unless after having read a good part of their literature, I decide it's ok to be exposed to biographies or references, mainly because I want to get to know the writer through their works. So it's obvious that at this stage I'm only going to interpret George Orwell's '1984' through knowing nothing about the author and only having got through half the book! (So far it's an amazing piece. Just half way through at the mo, extremely slow and thorough reader, always goes back and re-reads passages, stops and contemplates maybe for days!...!)
Anyway, so far I find the book shocking and annoying: shocking in concept...annoying is Winston....he's so exposed to certain information and coupled with his childhood flashbacks, how can he possibly take risks such as in Mr. Charrington's upstairs refuge? And why would he wholly, totally trust O'Brian based on a dream?
If Winston is either sex driven through Julia, hopefull through past childhood memories, or idealistic through his personal diary, I see him going about it the wrong way...the no-way out way. He's such an easy catch!
I'm only on page 174..I can see the worst is yet to come!
ps...I'm doing a paper on music: I see '1984' somehow linked to Pink Floyd's 'Animals'
I rarely look into an author's origins and life experiences unless after having read a good part of their literature, I decide it's ok to be exposed to biographies or references, mainly because I want to get to know the writer through their works. So it's obvious that at this stage I'm only going to interpret George Orwell's '1984' through knowing nothing about the author and only having got through half the book! (So far it's an amazing piece. Just half way through at the mo, extremely slow and thorough reader, always goes back and re-reads passages, stops and contemplates maybe for days!...!)
Anyway, so far I find the book shocking and annoying: shocking in concept...annoying is Winston....he's so exposed to certain information and coupled with his childhood flashbacks, how can he possibly take risks such as in Mr. Charrington's upstairs refuge? And why would he wholly, totally trust O'Brian based on a dream?
If Winston is either sex driven through Julia, hopefull through past childhood memories, or idealistic through his personal diary, I see him going about it the wrong way...the no-way out way. He's such an easy catch!
I'm only on page 174..I can see the worst is yet to come!
ps...I'm doing a paper on music: I see '1984' somehow linked to Pink Floyd's 'Animals'