After reading the novel 1984 by George Orwell, there are a lot of questions in my minds. How not, I have to read the work of someone with such a wild thought. At the beginning of the story I feel fear. This kind of fear comes from the depiction of the narrator about the background and the plot of the novel. How can I not feel fear? In this kind of freewill era, free-speech and free thought, I have to think of the times where people can not argue or even think freely of their own volition. There are always people who control everything. Besides, they (Thought Police) keep watching on people by putting on telescreen in every corner of the room. Thus, when people think about something which is deviated from the ideology they profess, it emits telescreen. The ideology that they believe in, mentioned in the novel, is INGSOC (English Socialist). Chairman of this group is called Big Brother. It is because the telescreen always displays a post “Big Brother Is Watching You”. They display this writing in order that people are always scared and realize that there are always people who keep an eye on what they think. Nevertheless, the main character in this novel has another view. He wants to express what he thinks. Therefore, he writes a diary. In fact, at that time, writing activities is also prohibited. So, is it not worth if I feel scared when I read the beginning of the novel?
When I ask whether I like the novel 1984 or not, especially book 1 chapter 1-4, my answer is then both. On the one hand, I like the way the author of this novel imagines 1984 in which he himself had never experienced it so that there are a lot of the things that he exaggerated. However, those kinds of things make us interested. Besides, he also has a very wide and high imagination of the era. So that, the narrator that he created is so vivid and knows all things. The factor of narrator is what actually makes me confused because I think that the narrator knows everything that makes him want to tell us all parts of main character’s life. In addition, narrator also tells a few things or words that we don’t not know before.
This novel raises a political issue, especially about socialism. It is illustrated with the shared interests, not the individual interests. Individual interest is prohibited in this novel. This evidence comes from the telescreen mounted on each wall to determine the individual thoughts. This is done to prevent someone from being smarter than others, or being more powerful than others. The principle that they profess is that all people are the same; status, rights, and obligations. And if you compare it with this era, it is not likely to happen eventhough it might occur in 1984. Moreover, this novel also raises the dualism, the thought that puts the two sides, there is always a good thing in terms of bad things and it returns as well.
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