1984

No sólo no he podido extenderme as long as I wanted, si no que encima parece que voy a tener que acortar lo que ya he hecho. Por eso dejo aquí la versión virgen, antes de que desaparezca.

REVIEW: 1984

Imagine a dark world, crowded with people without emotions, happiness or any kind of love relationship between they and their friends or family. Where an individual doesn't exist but as a part of the mass, who does and thinks as the Party wants, who knows every single thought that is in their heads. And who doesn’t, it’s “vaporized”. This is the view described by George Orwell in his most important novel, 1984.

Winston Smith lives in Oceania, one of the three super-states in which now the world is divided, and between which a perpetual war is maintained. All the citizens are constantly watched by thousand of cameras and microphones, and the ideology of the Big Brother is so inculcated that even children denounce their own parents to the “Police of the Thought”, despite knowing their horrible fate. Documents, films, journals… all is changed by the Party, and the Past is modified to be what Big Brother predicted it to be.

Smith, one of the workers of the Internal Party, lives aware of it, and keep a hate for all what this political structure represents, but againts which he can’t fight. For a few time, he achieves to escape in his own particular way from the power of the Regime, but there is nothing what can be hidden to the Big Brother permanently.

1984, shows the total and indestructible control of a government which has achieved to destroy consciousness and most basic instincts of a society in order to keep in the power.
A rebelion is imposible. How to claim for a better life if you can’t realise about your misery, with no references to a better past. If you blame the enemies of the Party and adore the Big Brother in an irrational way? Not being able to trust anybody, and being eliminated at the first sign of disagreement, logic or doubt.

Whether the argument or the writing style, hardly can the lector not get impressed by this classic of the literature.