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In his work, the famous British writer George Orwell depicts a future state characterized by the brutal control of various government agencies over all spheres of human life.

This control leads to the fact that a person actually loses his or her identity. In addition, a person also loses touch with reality, because the whole service is engaged in changing the past in such a way that the party’s predictions come true.

The entire life of the citizens of this state is subordinated to the party’s policy, and any free-thinking threatens not only physical destruction but even the removal of the memory of such a citizen from human memory.

The protagonist works in a state institution that corrects the past, but he begins to doubt the appropriateness of such brutal control of the party and Big Brother over the human personality.

The book clearly demonstrates how a totalitarian state can evolve, and in certain features of this fictional state, the USSR can be clearly traced.

Every citizen in this fictional state should not have any property, and his or her actions and even thoughts are monitored 24 hours a day by special services. Each apartment has a special screen that monitors a person, meaning that there is no possibility of even having privacy.

The party’s propaganda information is heard everywhere, and it is also impossible to hide from it.

Orwell’s book clearly demonstrates the extent to which a dictatorial totalitarian regime can develop, so its importance is very important in order to prevent such a development.

George Orwell is just an incredibly interesting person to study, as are his works. He was an outspoken capitalist and anti-communist. Orwell is not just a writer, he is a man who defended the “good world” and Western civilization from the tide of Red Terror and Stalinism by writing his so-called “Orwell’s List”. The work 1984 itself is just something incredible, the best dystopian work I’ve ever read. It’s not just about the plot, plot twists, unpredictable turns of events, and well thought-out characters, but also about the most amazing aesthetics of the work – the dark, gloomy, oppressive atmosphere of English socialism. The protagonist himself is a consequence of the development of this very system, with distant echoes of the past, of his mother, of the bombing… but all this is accessible to him as he ages. Young men, children, they grew up on the ideology of Big Brother, they don’t know the true history at all, they don’t have memories and echoes in their heads that would give hope to question the dominant ideology. Aesthetics in its original form awaits you… the aesthetics of violence, despair, doubt, war, disobedience, torture, the aesthetics of literature!

Science fiction writers often predict the future in their works.

Of course, making such predictions is a thankless task, because in reality no one has accurate information about how events will develop in the future.

But human curiosity has always demanded more, so science fiction writers continue to describe the possible future of human civilization.

Very often in such works, the main character absorbs the main features of the writer himself.

This is the most famous work of the twentieth century English writer George Orwell.

It is fashionable to consider the novel 1984 a classic dystopia, because in no case does reading this work make you want to live in the society that the author has depicted.

In general, such a pessimistic picture of the future in the second half of the 1940s seemed quite likely. After all, the world after the end of the Second World War was actually divided into two camps, thus beginning a new confrontation. Therefore, the country of the winners looked in the author’s imagination like a huge country-army, where every citizen was a cog in this mechanism.

It is extremely difficult to read this work, possibly due to the translation, but despite this, the book is worth reading for everyone.

After all, the future is truly unpredictable and anything is possible.

England, or rather, Oceania. The country of the first runway. 1984. London, which no longer looks like the London we are used to.

A totalitarian empire.

The Ministry of Truth, which changes the facts of the past to favor the ruling elite, runs the news and education.

The Ministry of Peace, which wages war.

The Ministry of Love, which maintains order and destroys people it does not like.

Millions of contradictions, which is typical of dystopias. Sometimes these contradictions make you shiver, they are so realistic.

And although all of this was written in the 1960s as a forecast for 1984, we shouldn’t think that it didn’t come true. There are many parallels, things that remind us of the totalitarian past of our ancestors in the USSR.

And it would seem that all this is over, the USSR is no more, there is no totalitarianism, no censorship and no punishment for anti-Soviet thoughts – please criticize the authorities as much as you want. But for some reason, older people keep talking about how good it was in the Soviet Union and how bad our country is now. For people brought up in a totalitarian upbringing, there is no other regime, just like for the protagonist. But isn’t totalitarianism a thing of the past? In fact, it is still here: deep in the subconscious of all people who lived under the Soviet Union.

And even now, when a loudspeaker in the middle of the city turns on and talks about the danger of the coronavirus, I shudder every time and involuntarily think of Orwell and his totalitarian 1984. The only thing that distinguishes us from the characters in his novel is that we simply don’t know about everything that is really happening.

George Orwell wrote a novel in 1949 describing a totalitarian society of the future and was largely right, striking with his foresight (as far as the USSR is concerned). After all, it is no secret that thousands of people were killed, tortured, or simply disappeared for going against the system.

The novel captivates from the first pages, but it is difficult to read, because the text is so pessimistic that it makes your blood run cold. The writer deeply researched and described the principles of the totalitarian model of governance, the methods of managing society, and the novel was banned even in the United States, a relatively free country.

The novel 1984 is divided into three parts. In the first one, all the events are set in motion; the author describes the world of the protagonist, Winstan Smith, and focuses on the details. Even then it is clear that this man is going to fight. The second part introduces Winston’s like-minded girlfriend, Julia. It’s striking how much effort and nerves it took for both of them to get close and not make a mistake, because any strange action or even a thought could lead to fatal consequences. In this part, there is hope for a happy ending to the novel. The relationship between Winston and Julia develops rapidly and frankly, although the characters realize that it cannot last. Their goal is to start underground activities against the Party and Big Brother. The third part describes in detail Winston’s horrific “treatment” at the Ministry of Love.

The book is a must-read to rethink the past and draw conclusions for the future. After all, it is absurd when a person is convicted of a thought crime, of the right to choose, of the desire to love and be loved, to move freely around the city and the country…. It’s scary when news and past events are rewritten by the Party’s order, when all houses/apartments, except for pro-Livniki ones, have TV screens that are forbidden to turn off and people are closely monitored, even the “wrong” facial expression can be fatal.

So, we should pay attention to the nonsense that is shown on TV, talked about on the radio, and written in the media, because it is just a simple ploy and the main thing is to have fun, nothing else is needed.