AkaCisco reviewed 1984 by George Orwell
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Paperback, 384 pages
German language
Published 2017 by Ullstein Taschenbuch.
1984
5 stars
(8 reviews)
Der Klassiker über einen allmächtigen Überwachungsstaat ist und bleibt beklemmend aktuell: Mit 1984 schuf George Orwell eines der einflußreichsten Bücher des 20. Jahrhunderts
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The contributions of this book are far too grand for me to go into all details here. To make it short, I believe that Orwell provided a fitting explanation of how individual thought is suppressed under totalitarian regimes. The principles of doublethink are also used in democratic states whenever it is politically necessary to hold two conflicting opinions. I even claim that it is a politician's most essential skill to perform this mental gymnastics convincingly.
However, this propaganda does not necesarrily manage to convince everybody. Regardless of the political system, it seems that generally, the people under its influence tend to root for it. But also regardless of the system, the capacity for subversive ideas can never be eliminated. Whether this capacity is actually of any use, though, depends on the system. The dystopian world of 1984 deals with subversive thoughts in such an efficient way, that revolutionary spirit is …
The contributions of this book are far too grand for me to go into all details here. To make it short, I believe that Orwell provided a fitting explanation of how individual thought is suppressed under totalitarian regimes. The principles of doublethink are also used in democratic states whenever it is politically necessary to hold two conflicting opinions. I even claim that it is a politician's most essential skill to perform this mental gymnastics convincingly.
However, this propaganda does not necesarrily manage to convince everybody. Regardless of the political system, it seems that generally, the people under its influence tend to root for it. But also regardless of the system, the capacity for subversive ideas can never be eliminated. Whether this capacity is actually of any use, though, depends on the system. The dystopian world of 1984 deals with subversive thoughts in such an efficient way, that revolutionary spirit is crushed before it even started to materialize.
Subjects
- nationalism
- futurology
- censorship
- surveillance
- lexicography
- rebels
- sting operations
- historical negationism
- memory holes
- thoughtcrime
- Outer Party
- resistance movements
- Newspeak
- perpetual war
- telescreens
- cult of personality
- Ingsoc
- Satirical literature
- English science fiction
- LANGUAGE & LITERARY STUDIES
- FICTION CLASSICS
- CLASSICS
- CONTEMPORARY FICTION
- Man-woman relationships
- Politique
- Political fiction
- Totalitarisme
- Fiction
- Romans
- Facsimiles
- Totalitarismo
- Husbands
- English Manuscripts
- Classic Literature
- Manuscripts
- Novela política
- Middle aged men
- Insurance agents
- open_syllabus_project
- Distopías
- Dystopias
- Ficción
- Translations into Russian
- Ciencia-ficción
- Cautionary tales and verse
- Dystopias in literature
- Translations into Urdu
- Suburban life
- English fiction
- Totalitarianism
- Indic fiction (English)
- Science Fiction
- Fantasy
- Translations into Spanish
- Traducciones al español
- Novela
- Novela inglesa
- Zukunft
- Polizeistaat
- English Political fiction
- Totalitarianism and literature
- History and criticism
- Nineteen eighty-four (Orwell, George)
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- London (england), fiction
- Fiction, political
- Fiction, dystopian
- Fiction, science fiction, general
- English literature
- Correspondence
- Journalists
- Translating and interpreting
- English Authors
- Correspondence..
- Authors and publishers
- Fiction, short stories (single author)
- British and irish drama (dramatic works by one author)
- Brainwashing
- Authoritarianism
- Comic books, strips
- Adaptations