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Do you want to understand the realities of today? Then we advise you to buy the book «1984». Surprisingly, the realities of the work, written in the dystopian genre more than 60 years ago, coincide in detail with those we observe today.
The model of the future by George Orwell in the book «1984»
Despite the fiction, the book is so realistic that it turns the mind, and in such a way that you want to turn it back. The writer himself claimed that «the best books tell you what you already know». And the dystopian novel 1984 describes things that we ourselves have guessed, but were afraid to believe existed.
The novel presents a society of the future, where there is a war of all against all. The events take place in a country called Oceania. The political system of the country is English socialism, but in fact it is a brutal totalitarianism. The protagonist lives in London and works in the Ministry of Truth, diligently removing from documents anything that does not correspond to official propaganda. At the same time, he is a man who feels and thinks deeply, and therefore hates the totalitarian world order and dreams of revolution.
The main conflict is simple: the individual versus the system, the desire for love and freedom versus enslavement and dictatorship. But the author is merciless. The system he depicts cannot be defeated, because you cannot defeat something that has no heart, no brain, no meaning, no purpose for existence. As such, there is no ideology to look for flaws in: everything has been destroyed along with common sense. There is only power for the sake of power. And humanity has been sent to the slaughterhouse, where not so much bodies as souls are being killed, as reason, memory, humanism and love have been outlawed.
In reviews of the book One Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Four, readers call the work a genius. But they recommend the book not to optimists or even pessimists, but to cynical realists who are ready for the truth, no matter how bitter it may be.
You can buy the book «1984» in Ukraine in the literary section of our website.
