"1984 Commentary".
Title: "1984 Commentary".
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 1273 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
"1984 Commentary".
Category: /Society & Culture/Geography
Details: Words: 1273 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
George Orwell's 1984, is a novel about the life of Winston Smith living in a totalitarianism state where Big Brother has control, power and dominates the lives of citizens. There are many significant paragraphs which stand out in the book however I extracted the passage on pages 127, 128 from "Folly, Folly, his heart....." to "...the absence of a telescreen" because it has great literary insight and significant elements of symbolism behind it.(This is where Winston heard
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given their privacy without a telescreen. The telescreen symbolizes how the totalitarian government abuses technology for its own ends instead of exploiting its knowledge to improve civilization.
Overall, this passage mainly focuses on themes, objects and people which symbolize the protagonist desire for freedom and craving to overthrow the party. However, it is clear in every way that the Party has the power and force over citizens and freedom would be very difficult to achieve.