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George Orwelland Nineteen-eighty-four
An author deeply interested in social problemsMarxist ideas Social engagement Social responsibilities
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He believed that writers couldn't ignore what was happening around themThey had to act taking their own responsibilities
He was not an innovator in novel writing but he was able to intercept that fear for future coming out in that period by portraying a frightening future societyBut we still share that fear...
Nineteen- eighty-fourIt is a dystopian novel written in 1948 but set in 1984
The worst social setting is presented
Life is continuously controlled by telescreens and cameras following each step the characters take
There's no freedom, no privacy
Even language loses its connotation and sense
The use of slogans, posters, announcements seem to prevail to allude to the misleading power of advertising
The protagonist is Winston Smith, a modern anti-hero who tries to rebel against this form of dictatorship through memories of the past, love, secrecy but at the end he will be annihilated both physically and mentally.
His name reminds the English statesman whereas his common surname the individual against a social system whose mechanisms are almost impossible to shatter.
Power embodied by the Big Brother overcomes and almost submerges him. It has been said that you don't have only to respect him but to love him.
The author wants to warn against the evils of dictatorshipLack of freedom Lack of values Torture Persecution
“Ignorance is strength”.
“Slavery is freedom"
“Hate is love”.
These slogans in the form of an oxymoron are the leit motif of the novelLanguage loses its strength and the author seems to warn even against mass media
In this sense the writer becomes the silent consciousness of his times, he makes readers think and reflect, acquiring a new consciousness of what is happening around them.
Other ingredients of the novel
Mystification of power
Symbolic allusions to the present situation
A harsh criticism against every form of dictatorship
Use of technology as a form of control
