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onsdag 18 maj 2011

Summary of 1984

Although the year of 1984 is long past, George Orwell's vision about the future does not cease of amaze. The year is 1984 and the world is a different place then what is known to you and me. The government knows everything about everyone and every step you take is supervised by "big brother" through the tele-screen on the wall. You can't move or talk without being spied on. George Orwell paints a picture of the future of negative utopia. A completely plausible, nightmarish future, where there's no such thing as freedom and where the act of thinking for yourself is a sin that won't go unpunished. Where there's even a new language on the rise built to keep you from expressing your emotions. As a citizen of the, now broken, city of London, Winston Smith gets to find out what thinking for yourself gets you and what it's like to fight a power so much greater than just one man. Living in a society where the reality is altered and twisted to the very point that he can't even trust himself or his own senses. A society where nothing is certain, everything and nothing is true and no one is ever safe.

/Sofi

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