![]() ![]() ![]() Three slogans adorn the entrance to the Ministry of Truth: WAR IS PEACE. What historic events were happening in the world at that time, and how might they have influenced the construction of 1984? Is the future Orwell imagines completely made up, or is it based on real-life situations? I think a person would need to be an adult to properly cope with all the dark, disturbing content in this "ungood" book.įamilies can talk about how being constantly watched and listened to affects how people conduct their lives and what it does to their mental states.ġ984 is an inversion of 1948, the year in which Orwell began writing the novel. I am dismayed that this was assigned in 7th grade at public school. Easily the most violent book I've ever read, and more violence and nudity than the vast majority of rated R films. ![]() There are lessons here but the repeated sexual content (going so far as descriptions of the skin of a nude person, intense pleasure during and after lovemaking), habitual drinking of an alcoholic, and the long graphic depictions of unspeakably cruel tortures and starvations, are far too much for even teenage readers. I found the book stressful to read, depresssing, and far darker than anything else I've ever read. In the process of beating its protagonists into submission, it likewise treats the reader similarly. I love how the book begins, and it is clearly a forefather of a lot of great sci-fi and dystopian tales. ![]()
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