Modern Classics Summarized: 1984
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1984 codified most of the modern dystopia tropes - absolute control of the media, black-bagging people who spoke out, and a lot of popular terms like "doublethink", "big brother", and "thought police". Unfortunately, a lot of those terms got stripped of context and thrown around for the sake of Extra Edge, and as a result they get used a little haphazardly. And there's nothing Red hates more than misused terminology, so here's the video outlining the ORIGINAL meaning of 1984!
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Fun fact: 1984 was censored in the US for being pro-communist and banned in the USSR for being anti-communist
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BEGONE THOUGHT
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"children relate to dytopia ,so they like it , adults cant , so they dont ." jeez thats both truth and dark
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Man, Winston could NOT be a more poor judge of character for someone whose job is literally rewriting history for the party. The woman he suspects of stalking and spying on him turns out to share his worldviews and finds him attractive, while the people he actually thought he could trust turn out to be spies for the party
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"'We are the dead,' he said. 'We are the dead,' echoed Julia dutifully. 'You are the dead,' said an iron voice behind them." Probably the biggest 'oh, shit...' moment in all of literature.
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Fun fact: Room 101 was named after Conference Room 101 at the BBC. Which is a Conference Room where Orwell was forced to sit through long, unnecessary, and torturous meetings during his time working at the BBC.
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Possibly one of the only male protagonists in fiction that is super on board for finding out about his partner's "body count"
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If I recall, the really scary thing about O'Brian was that he was a member of of thought police yes... but he was also legitimately rebellious and seeking out people to aid the cause. He was a prime example of double-think in action.
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The last line of the novel hit me the hardest. “He loved Big Brother.” I’d never felt such a crushing since of defeat loss and hopelessness from a book until I read that line. It was intense lol
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"getting your kneecaps confiscated by the secret police" yes
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The most terrifying part about this book is not the torture or complete control over the populous the party has, but the fact that winston lost in the end and even our protagonist couldnt stop the party
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One aspect of the book that I never see people really talk about is that, had the party not placed all those fake revolutionaries and spies in his path, Winston would never have rebelled by himself. He says multiple times that he likes his job, that he enjoys completing the tasks he's given, that he finds comfort in having a place in the world - it's only when party agents essentially lead him by the hand that he becomes "openly" rebellious, and is then punished for it. Such a great book.
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Ironically in the US the book was banned for being pro-communist until 1968 and In the USSR it was banned for being anti-communist until 1991
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This is a bit late, but there's one small glimmer of hope in 1984, found in the absolute last place you'd expect it - the appendix describing Newspeak at the back of the book. It's written in past tense.
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Fun fact, the guy portraying Winston Smith is the late Sir John Hurt, who also played the guy who got chestbursted in the first Alien movie, Doctor Who, and the fascist dictator in V for Vendetta. So he played both a dystopian protagonist and a dystopian villain.
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In another online community, someone once said something about Big Brother not being real and I was, like, "So the whole Ingsoc thing was a delusion on Winston's part? That's an interesting take." And I pondered that for a while, finding the idea more and more intriguing. I got a response, "No, more like how Uncle Sam isn't real." And, I'm, like, oh.
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"Will probably get vaporized, not because he wasn't loyal, but because he was too honest with his loyalty" Great just can't win now can you?
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When Winston's work place crush was mentioned, my brain forgot Julia existed for a minute and was like "yea Winston was definitely gay for O'Brian"
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even if there wasnt a screen in the apartment, wouldnt their constant banging be heard from below? "hey why is the bed squeaking upstairs" "jumping on the bed probably"
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I couldn't help but bitterly burst out laughing at the part when when Winston was thinking "O'Brien would be vaporized. Parsons, on the other hand, would never be vaporized. And the girl with dark hair - she would never be vaporized either." A perfect example of how looks and actions in a highly surveillant society can deceive you. It's ironic how Winston could be so wrong.
