1984 by george orwell
A harrowing tale set in a dystopian totalitarian state where a single ruling Party monitors and controls every aspect of life, erases history, and enforces orthodoxy through pervasive surveillance, propaganda, and the Thought Police. A low-ranking Party member quietly rebels by seeking personal truth and illicit intimacy, only to confront the regime’s ruthless capacity for psychological manipulation, torture, and linguistic control through concepts like Newspeak and doublethink. The narrative traces his doomed resistance, the systematic destruction of private thought and memory, and the chilling triumph of a state that remakes reality and crushes individual autonomy.
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- Published
- 1948
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 368
- Original Language
- English
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- Alternate Titles
- - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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