Thursday, September 15, 2011

What is wrong with Winston's society in 1984?

The problems
that open up the book stem from a total lack of privacy, but paradoxically
a total lack of connection between people. The state, or "Big Brother" has ways of
watching people on the street, in their homes, and in nearly every building and public
space.

also can't escape the language - though he knows it's false - of
Newspeak. He can't get out from under the yoke of constant slogans meant reinforce
Newspeak.

"Peace is War" and "Freedom Is Slavery" (which
hearkens back to the slogan over Auschwitz, "Work Will Make You Free") are repeated on
billboards, over television, between citizens as a way of greeting or connecting.


Winston is living in a nightmarish reality in which no one can really speak the truth.
It is a daily struggle...

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