Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Section 1, Orwell 1984

The extreme contrast between our modern society and the dystopia that is the future London is very intriguing.
Thus far, through the first section of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell I am a bit confused, but I guess that is the point. Even the characters in the novel display signs of uncertainty as no one knows the definite truth. On page 77 Orwell says: “Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” It seems to me the only people that have any chance of escaping the influence of Big Brother are those who have an established identity and think freely for themselves, asking questions regarding past and future circumstances. I am anxious to discover who prevails in the end, Big Brother or the brainwashed society; I want answer, definitive answers to the many questions posed in section 1, hopefully things start to come together.

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