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I just re-read it, and as it raises so many questions about life, and perhaps humanity, or rather politics in general, extremism, totalitarianism etc etc, I was wondering what you people think of it?
Personaly, I think its fantastic. The whole final part, with Winston and O'Brian is just some of the best text I have ever read, and the ideas it throws up, from the objective of pure power, of building society on hate rather than 'equality', and the most horrible thing, the fact that the Party can get inside what is deemed to be untouchable - 'the place inside' and the foot stamping on the face for ever, and the way Winston loves Big Brother - just helpless. Bla.
Just thought about it, and wondered what you thought.
Personaly, I think its fantastic. The whole final part, with Winston and O'Brian is just some of the best text I have ever read, and the ideas it throws up, from the objective of pure power, of building society on hate rather than 'equality', and the most horrible thing, the fact that the Party can get inside what is deemed to be untouchable - 'the place inside' and the foot stamping on the face for ever, and the way Winston loves Big Brother - just helpless. Bla.
Just thought about it, and wondered what you thought.
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1984 probably got my A at GCSE English. My answer to the mock exam question was rad, and then almost exactly the same thing came up in the real test!
This is going back 7 years though, so I can't remember much about it :O/ 1984 was an ace book, I should re-read it sometime, as well as Dracula which I also read around the same time.
This is going back 7 years though, so I can't remember much about it :O/ 1984 was an ace book, I should re-read it sometime, as well as Dracula which I also read around the same time.
Goatboy wrote:
> Dont talk to me about remotest place in the UK, I've been there this
> weekend.
You were in Dorking?
> Dont talk to me about remotest place in the UK, I've been there this
> weekend.
You were in Dorking?
Light wrote:
>> Yeah? Cool...didn't he then head off to the remotest place in the UK
> he could possibly get to in order to finish it? He was a rum old chap,
> no doubt about it...
He went to some Scottish island. But he had a relapse in TB or something and had to come to Hairmyres Hospital to get treated. Although my town really was just the hospital and a few houses at the time. But was founded as a new town after the Second World War in Aneurin Bevan's New Towns Act of 1946 (I've been studying history so hah)
>> Yeah? Cool...didn't he then head off to the remotest place in the UK
> he could possibly get to in order to finish it? He was a rum old chap,
> no doubt about it...
He went to some Scottish island. But he had a relapse in TB or something and had to come to Hairmyres Hospital to get treated. Although my town really was just the hospital and a few houses at the time. But was founded as a new town after the Second World War in Aneurin Bevan's New Towns Act of 1946 (I've been studying history so hah)
Mu ha ha ha haaaa!
~twirls moustache in exaggerated fashion~
~twirls moustache in exaggerated fashion~
Shut up.
Heh. Well, the remoteness of the area means that there probably won't be a regular electricity supply there. And that's good in a way cos it means that train drivers can practice driving in the dark...
Dont talk to me about remotest place in the UK, I've been there this weekend.
SHEEPY wrote:
> It's my favourite book also
>
> And was started when Orwell stayed in the hospital a few hundred
> metres from my house.
Yeah? Cool...didn't he then head off to the remotest place in the UK he could possibly get to in order to finish it? He was a rum old chap, no doubt about it...
> It's my favourite book also
>
> And was started when Orwell stayed in the hospital a few hundred
> metres from my house.
Yeah? Cool...didn't he then head off to the remotest place in the UK he could possibly get to in order to finish it? He was a rum old chap, no doubt about it...
It's my favourite book also
And was started when Orwell stayed in the hospital a few hundred metres from my house.
And was started when Orwell stayed in the hospital a few hundred metres from my house.
> Psyİho Fox wrote:
> Is that the new edtion? the one that they made NOT to include the
> Twin
> Towers of New York?
>
> that is soo gay, isn't reminders what helps people over the grieving
> process not to cover it all up and forget it ever happened.
What the fu....?
Are you talking about the same book here?
Anyway, 1984 is my favourite book of all time. In tone it's a product of it's age (very much post WW2 in terms of the lack of everything, rationing) and it's author (Orwell was dying when he wrote it), but it stands up as a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism. Personally, I think idiots who think that the idea of one nation having control over much of the world is a good idea should be forced to read it. At Gunpoint.
Yes, that was irony.
> Is that the new edtion? the one that they made NOT to include the
> Twin
> Towers of New York?
>
> that is soo gay, isn't reminders what helps people over the grieving
> process not to cover it all up and forget it ever happened.
What the fu....?
Are you talking about the same book here?
Anyway, 1984 is my favourite book of all time. In tone it's a product of it's age (very much post WW2 in terms of the lack of everything, rationing) and it's author (Orwell was dying when he wrote it), but it stands up as a warning about the dangers of totalitarianism. Personally, I think idiots who think that the idea of one nation having control over much of the world is a good idea should be forced to read it. At Gunpoint.
Yes, that was irony.
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