I am
reading the last chapter of 1984, and i have already chosen my next book which will be The admirable new world from Aldous Huxley, to give sequence to my brainy novels' phase. I must confess that political matters never did my head, i know i am being ignorant. One afternoon, at my friend's house, i had a pleasant surprise. I had nothing to do and so i was given a suggestion to read 1984, a book which was in one of her shelves. I started reading it and was fascinated with Winston's
story. George Orwell tell the story of a
society where the State is omnipresent, capable of changing the story, the past and create an endless war with the only goal of maintaining its structure non-breakable. Reading this way, it may seem that this society is fictitious or a fruit of the imagination of an extremley creative man. Well, it's not. If we stop to think, we live in a society which manipulates us, as it happens in 1984. There aren't telescreens but televisions in our homes, but what do we watch on them? The informations we get are those they want us to get. It is not always what it seems to be. To the government we are merely
numbers, and it is possible through those numbers to know everything about our
lives. Almost everyone lives in
misery and ignorance, being this way much easier to manipulate and dominate, exactly as it happens in George Orwell's romance. In fact, the greates scare on reading 1984 was not the vision of a terribly emprisoned society but the description of the one in which we live today. It is true that the ways of domination have changed a little, maybe they are more subtle, but each way the book is a criticism made on those who read it. What occurred to me was that the book was
written in1948 (no, it was not simply a coincidence) and George Orwell, who was constantly being criticized, lived and died in misery, having written one of the greatest previsions in history. Nostradamus wasn't, in any way, better than him. Debora Rocha
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