1984
By: Norton Morgen
1984 is a political parable. While Brave New World describes a future of everyone getting exactly what they want, George Orwell takes this in the opposite direction with a description of how the world most likely will be: mindless, loveless, unfeeling followers of nothing. The first paragraph of the story already foreshadows of what is to come with a description of Victory Mansions, the home of Winston Smith, the protagonist of this story. It tells of the "swirl of gritty dust
The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats." Even the names of places are depressing. He lives in the province of Airstrip One, the city of London, and in the country of Oceania. The other two countries are Eastasia and Eurasia. Big Brother, a fictional or real personno one really knowsis the leader of this miserable system of IngsocEnglish Socialism, that is. No one is allowed to hold ideas different from those of the official propaganda outlet: Minitruth. To enforce......
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