Essays on Inner Party

Nineteen Eighty Four is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell in 1948 and published in 1949. Nineteen Eighty Four is a social science fiction novel which gives the reader an idea on how the world will be like under a totalitarian form of government. The story takes place in Oceania and the main character in the novel is Winston Smith. The "1984" novel carries a warning to the society on where it is heading to. The paperback is divided into three different parts. Part one shows the main character and his conflicts with the world he lives in and how it ...

George Orwell’s novel 1984 opens with the protagonist, Winston Smith, lounging around his grey depressing apartment in London. He is alone in the first scene, and throughout much of the novel remains that way. Essentially, everyone within the dystopian society within the book is separated from the society they are a part of. Winston lives in a dingy apartment where his government constantly monitors him. There is essentially no freedom, and ceaseless war. Orwell was not just writing a fictional dystopian thriller, but was making important political statements about where culture could be headed if the people of a society allowed ...

George Orwell’s most important books like 1984 and Animal Farm were not really intended to be prophecies for the distant future, but satires of the Stalinist and fascist police states that existed in his own time, but for the most part no longer exist today under the system of global capitalism. He was certainly not a great fiction writer, but was very likely the “the best of modern pamphleteers” (Bloom 1). His characters were totally brutalized by the system of Ingsoc (English Socialism) and this was the type of system he feared might take over the world, although of ...