George Orwell's Novel Nineteen Eighty Four

The famous book 'Nineteen Eighty Four' written by English author George Orwell. This novel was published on 8 June 1949. The 267-page novel was published by Sek and Warburg.

Basically, this is a political novel. In the politically troubled period of Britain, the government's repression, surveillance, and assassination - all these have presented in the novel. Orwell was written this novel after the end of World War II. At that time the dictatorship was underway in various countries of the world. Orwell was penalized by Spain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and other countries, and the whole world's political situation.

At that time the power of arms was the main power. The basic rights of the people were not guaranteed. Poverty and hunger were the constant companions of the common people. It was joined with government repression, forced labour and genocide. Although the story and character of 'Nineteen Eighty Four' are mythical, the realization of the reality of the eye. There was no situation to stand against the government's aggression. The government's full control of people's daily lives.

In 2005, Time magazine published the list of the best 100 English-language novels written between 1923 and 2005, with the names 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'. The novel in the BBC's 'The must Read' survey was at number 8.

Nineteen Eighty-Four Summary

Nineteen Eighty-Four was a story of the anti-exploitation, deprivation and terrorism. The most powerful character in the novel is 'Big Brother'. He is the chief person of the ruling 'Outer Party'. And this political party is always working to achieve its own interests. They do not have time to look at others. Their goal is exploiting the people.

The main character of the film is Winston Smith. He is a member of the Outer Party. Smith works with the Ministry of Truth. The work of this ministry is to propagate various campaigns and propaganda of the government. And the job of Winston Smith is to rewrite all the reports published in the old newspapers. The new reports are written in such a way that it is in favour of the ruling party. That is, Smith's job was to write history as a new regime. The incidents of exploitation, oppression and terrorism of the ruling government are very carefully avoided. Wrote the new history of the government. In addition, the Ministry of the true religion destroyed the old information, so that there is no sign or evidence of torture of the government.

However, the government does not give any support to the wits of Winston Smith. He hates his own party and dreams one day he will revolt against 'Big Brother'.Orwell has brought a dictator in his novel 'Big Brother' in his novel, between Germany's Hitler and Soviet Stalin have both characteristics. He highlighted political terrorism of the time. Although he did not publish directly, he wrote the identity of the dictators by writing. Because the dictator created in Orwell's pen has a great quality of speech. He can inspire people through speech. And there are black dense moustaches.

About  George Orwell

George Orwell is actually a pseudonym, the real name of the author is Eric Arthur Blair. He was born on 25 June 1903 in Matihar, Bengal's British Presidency. He was a novelist, poet, essayist, journalist and critic. He has written against social evils, totalitarianism. His uncompromising support for democratic socialism.
He is best known for the novel Animal Farm, published in 1945 and the novel 'Nineteen Eighty Four' published in 1949. Apart from this, his other important works include The Road to Wigan Pale (1937), 'Homage to Catalonia' (1938).

Political consciousness distinguishes Orwell from everyone as a writer. He died on January 21, 1950, at 46 years of age.