Brody+1984

__George Orwell__ He was born Eric Blair in India in 1903. His father worked for the British working on the opium they shipped out from India. His mother brought him to England when he was one. He had an older sister named Marjorie and a younger sister named Avril. At the age of five, Blair was sent to a small Anglican parish school in Henley. He impressed the teachers there and was recommended to the most successful preparatory schools in England at the time which was St Cyprian's School. He was given a scholarship for there that his parents only had to pay half the normal cost. He disliked the school but did well enoguh to earn scholarships to both Wellington and Eton colleges. He only spent one year at Wellington then moved on to Eton which he liked much better. He met some of the great British thinkers of his age while he was there. After Eton he left to join the police force that was in India because his family could not afford a university. He returned in 1928 after developing a hatred for imperialism, which is one country taking over other ones as colonies. He chose his pen name in 1933. He chose Geroge Orwell because he liked the traditions of England and Geroge was it's patron saint and Orwell is the name of a river which was his favorite landscape in England. He lived for several years homeless occasionally but always poor. He found some teaching jobs but he had ill health so instead he worked at a bookstore then. He began making money though by writing book reviews for the New English Weekly until 1940 when He was a member of the Home Guard and was a reporter for the BBC. However he didn't like spreading propaganda and left the BBC to write a column in an independent newspaper. His column was titled "As I Please". He Finished Animal Farm in 1944 which was Anti-Communist and was widely accepted. He finally had a decent income to live on for his adult life. In 1949 he wrote the Sci-Fi book called __Nineteen Eighty-Four__ while he was staying on an island off of Scotland. During his life he wrote Many articles most of them Journalism articles. He wrote many essays on his interesting life and some books but his two most famous are Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. The former is considered an allegory of the corruption of the socialist ideals of the Russian Revolution by Stalinism, and the latter is Orwell's prophetic vision of the results of totalitarianism. Orwell is also known for his insights about the political implications of the use of language. In the essay "Politics and the English Language", he decries the effects of cliche, bureaucratic euphemism, and academic jargon on literary styles, and ultimately on thought itself. Orwell's concern over the power of language to shape reality is also reflected in his invention of Newspeak, the official language of the imaginary country of Oceania in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Newspeak is a variant of English in which vocabulary is strictly limited by government fiat. The goal is to make it increasingly difficult to express ideas that contradict the official line - with the final aim of making it impossible even to conceive such ideas. A number of words and phrases that Orwell coined in Nineteen Eighty-Four have entered the standard vocabularly, such as "memory hole," "Big Brother," "Room 101," "doublethink," "thought police," and "newspeak." = __** Plot **__ = His book 1984 is a story about a man who lives in a totalitarian government who thinks that it needs to go away. he thinks this simply because the government doesn't help it's people and also is in control of everything including the past. The government controls the past by eliminating or changing all written events. The main character Winston Smith works at the ministry of truth where ironically they make up lies all day to make history fit for their purposes. Mainly this is to make Big Brother, the leader of Oceania, never appear wrong. So when Oceania changes alliances with other nations the whole history is changed to show that they were always at war with the new enemy. Winston met there his partner in crime Julia who was a member of the anti-sex league and he hated her at first. In fact he wanted to rape and kill her. One day however she slipped him a note which said "I love you". they had a 7 year affair during the book. Winston also meets O'Brian there who is an inner party member. He gives Winston entrance to the brotherhood which is against the government. Julia and Winston are now basically going against every law on the books in Oceania. except wait, there are no laws there because the thoughtpolice catch everything before anything bad can happen. So now one would think how could the brotherhood survive? The simple answer is for you to read and find out. However this book is very good for many reasons. =** __Outstanding__ **=

This book is outstanding because of how it makes you think on many levels while giving a great story. One way the book makes you think is by questioning the reality of the past. The book does this by showing that when Winston changes or edits a document the orginal is destroyed which essentially means that all of the past never truly exists anymore. Another thought evoking passage talks about how never ending war is like never ending peace because nothing changes. The thought is that a war that never ends is just like peace that never ends because the citizens are mostly unhurt but yet have patriotism for their country that is "protecting" them. One more thought is about how to continue a classes dominance. they use changing of the past, neverending war, and ignorance of the people plus total survallience to keep the people in check. They use the fear of the war to keep the people in check so they don't rise up. they change the past to make themselves always right. they limit the people's intelligence so they can't rebel. Finally they use survallience to make sure nothing goes wrong. all of this is what Wells believed would happen because of people's greed for pure power.

=** __Recommendations__ **=

I reccomend this book to anyone who likes a book that makes them think or is interested in "Fantasy" books. If you liked this book i would also reccomend his other books including Animal Farm.