1984 by George Orwell
1984 is a story about the time when your every action was scrutinized, someone constantly watching you. The story that unveils the truth from the faces of Government, story that simply explains the way to rule, to change thoughts, to alter history, to justify wrong, to create an illusion and to tell people about that all "isms"
have in one or other way fooled them.
Be it be socialism, totalitarianism or collectivism, things don't change. How important ignorance, poverty and are to reign. What will happen if we will create the delusion of everyone as equal? How people fall in love when they have a constant fear of being watched and being killed for it?
George Orwell explains profoundly how a hero is created, a hero who never existed. It made me realize that how our own history has heroes that were created and their deeds were considered as ideal, millions were asked to follow them, I find myself as a part of this big scam. And how our created heroes had so many flaws, how by forgery they became heroes, once the act of forgery is forgotten, they authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
The most interesting part that I found in novel was the fact how can we alter the whole history systematically, just by altering the history books of the school. In "1984", party members claimed for the first set of citizens that they invented helicopters and as the new and young population came, they said they also invented airplanes. But all of these claims were absurd. Similarly when I was a kid, I read in my N.C.E.R.T books about the greatness of Indira gandhi and today kids are erading about Rajeev gandhi while the most extra ordinary were forgotten, we never had a chapter about P.V Narshimha Rao or Lala Bahadur Shahstri, What's so special about Rajeev, we all know.
And as the time progressed in the novel, the party members even developed their own vocabulary, they had word " Orthodox' which meant good thinker. bellyfeel meant a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea, Crimethink is the Newspeak word for thoughtcrime (thoughts that are unorthodox, or are outside the official government platform), Ownlife refers to the tendency to enjoy being solitary or individualistic, which is considered subversive, there are many more. But these words give us idea of the times George Orwell thought about.
Amid this political trauma I liked few quotes from the book, They were:-
1) “they say that time heals all things,
they say you can always forget;
but the smiles and the tears across the years
they twist my heart strings yet!”
― George Orwell, 1984
2) “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
3) “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984
4) “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Some of them need context to envisage them but even in such abstract forms they will give you your own way to comprehend.
have in one or other way fooled them.
Be it be socialism, totalitarianism or collectivism, things don't change. How important ignorance, poverty and are to reign. What will happen if we will create the delusion of everyone as equal? How people fall in love when they have a constant fear of being watched and being killed for it?
George Orwell explains profoundly how a hero is created, a hero who never existed. It made me realize that how our own history has heroes that were created and their deeds were considered as ideal, millions were asked to follow them, I find myself as a part of this big scam. And how our created heroes had so many flaws, how by forgery they became heroes, once the act of forgery is forgotten, they authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.
The most interesting part that I found in novel was the fact how can we alter the whole history systematically, just by altering the history books of the school. In "1984", party members claimed for the first set of citizens that they invented helicopters and as the new and young population came, they said they also invented airplanes. But all of these claims were absurd. Similarly when I was a kid, I read in my N.C.E.R.T books about the greatness of Indira gandhi and today kids are erading about Rajeev gandhi while the most extra ordinary were forgotten, we never had a chapter about P.V Narshimha Rao or Lala Bahadur Shahstri, What's so special about Rajeev, we all know.
And as the time progressed in the novel, the party members even developed their own vocabulary, they had word " Orthodox' which meant good thinker. bellyfeel meant a blind, enthusiastic acceptance of an idea, Crimethink is the Newspeak word for thoughtcrime (thoughts that are unorthodox, or are outside the official government platform), Ownlife refers to the tendency to enjoy being solitary or individualistic, which is considered subversive, there are many more. But these words give us idea of the times George Orwell thought about.
Amid this political trauma I liked few quotes from the book, They were:-
1) “they say that time heals all things,
they say you can always forget;
but the smiles and the tears across the years
they twist my heart strings yet!”
― George Orwell, 1984
2) “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― George Orwell, 1984
3) “If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.”
― George Orwell, 1984
4) “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
― George Orwell, 1984
Some of them need context to envisage them but even in such abstract forms they will give you your own way to comprehend.
Published on August 23, 2013 12:32
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