This is my first attempt to write a review, please be aware
that I have opened a new door and still wearing the wrong type of shoes.
1984, a classic.
I am almost a little bit frightened to write about this book, as there are already so many reviews of this novel. This novel has so much that I can talk about, but what I cannot let go of is the Power George Orwell points out, especially in the end of the novel. Many things - which many have already mentioned - that relates to how we are, and to how we live today. The way of thinking. Chapter after chapter I caught myself thinking, 'Orwell is so clever! How could he write something like this during that particular period?' On a second thought, if he had not written that, perhaps we would not be where we are today? Books are read, interpreted by the readers, from readers the thoughts are produced, talked about and shared in their community. Someone will take the idea and employ it into their workplace, it will be produced, and people will take part in it - and it finally becomes a part of us. Suddenly we realise, of course it is related, because why would the text otherwise survive?
It is good, because it is real, the characters are real. It is the world that becomes a mirror of the mind, which is the part of sci-fi. It is a world built on many blocks with different shapes and it have many ways of turning Winston around. We see his life as the ordinary man in his word-place, the tender lover in the secret places, and he is the one finally being converted into the world which wants to control him. The vocabulary is simple, and it is a journey Orwell takes you through, which will end with you, looking at your world differently.
I am almost a little bit frightened to write about this book, as there are already so many reviews of this novel. This novel has so much that I can talk about, but what I cannot let go of is the Power George Orwell points out, especially in the end of the novel. Many things - which many have already mentioned - that relates to how we are, and to how we live today. The way of thinking. Chapter after chapter I caught myself thinking, 'Orwell is so clever! How could he write something like this during that particular period?' On a second thought, if he had not written that, perhaps we would not be where we are today? Books are read, interpreted by the readers, from readers the thoughts are produced, talked about and shared in their community. Someone will take the idea and employ it into their workplace, it will be produced, and people will take part in it - and it finally becomes a part of us. Suddenly we realise, of course it is related, because why would the text otherwise survive?
It is good, because it is real, the characters are real. It is the world that becomes a mirror of the mind, which is the part of sci-fi. It is a world built on many blocks with different shapes and it have many ways of turning Winston around. We see his life as the ordinary man in his word-place, the tender lover in the secret places, and he is the one finally being converted into the world which wants to control him. The vocabulary is simple, and it is a journey Orwell takes you through, which will end with you, looking at your world differently.
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