at any given moment… You had to live… in the assumption that every sound
you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”
(Orwell, Book 1, Chapter 1, 9)
Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by a notorious British writer George Orwell. Written in 1948, the novel describes a strictly totalitarian society that exists in a fictional state of Oceania. Although Orwell himself believed the novel to be fictional, satirical and exaggerating things, it is hard to deny that the world and society described in 1984 has a lot in common with real historical events. More than that, the novel undoubtedly reflects, criticizes and comments on the current state of affairs not only in ...
