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1984 by Umberto Eco, Miguel Temprano García, George Orwell, George Orwell
273 reviews
Winston (the main character) depicts a form of desperation, helplessness and fright, at points I had to stopp and take a deep breath. The world of Ingsoc (English Socialism) demands the impossible and basically wants to wipe out the entire fabric of human existence, love, sexual desires, joy, friendship, partnership. All of it will be abolished in this world of Oceania.
Astonishing writing and as relevant as ever and nothing for weak nerves!
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Torture, Murder, Deportation
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship
Graphic: Body horror, Death
Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Gun violence, Excrement, Vomit, Alcohol, War
Wir befinden uns im ehemaligen Großbritannien, jetzt Ozeanien,
Julia und Winston sind der Meinung einer Rebellion beizutreten, aber in Wirklichkeit ist all dies nur eine Intrige der Partei und mindestens Winston wird bereits seit Jahren genauestens überwacht. Bei der "Verhaftung" wird klar, dass man in dieser Welt absolut niemandem trauen kann, was später mit dem offen Legen der Intrige unterstreicht wird. Julia und Winston werden getrennt und ab jetzt folgen wir nur noch Winston, da wir immer nur erfahren, was er erfährt. Nun erleben wir mit wie Winston immer weiter und immer extremer gefoltert wird. Wir erleben wie er erst nur vortäuscht, als hätten sie es geschafft sein Willen komplett zu brechen; dann erleben wir wie sie seinen Willen und Ihn als Person wirklich brechen und er deren Ideologie übernimmt.
Schließlich wartet Winston als "freie Person" nur noch auf seinen Tod; ob und wann dieser kommt bleibt offen. Auch bleibt offen, ob der Krieg zu einem Wendepunkt gekommen ist.
Es gibt Sachen im Roman, welche heutzutage kritisch zu sehen wären, aber für die Zeit in der dieser geschrieben wurde Sinn machen. Ein paar Abschnitte sind scheinbar grundlos sehr wiederholend und können die Leser langweilen.
Der Schreibstil ist oft sehr emotionslos und teilweise fast sachlich, was die Handlungen sehr viel verstörender wirken lässt. Dies macht auch die Gesellschaftskritik, welche mit dieser Literatur geäußert wird, deutlicher und lässt sie wesentlich dringender und wichtiger wirken.
Insgesamt ist dies also ein sehr wichtiges Buch mit einer extremst wichtigen Aussage dahinter. Im Großteil hat es mir auch gut gefallen, aber besonders im ersten Teil gab es einfach Sachen, welche ich eher langweilig und fast sinnlos fand. Trotzdem sollte jeder dieses Buch zumindest einmal gelesen haben, besonders weil die politische Situation es leider wieder extrem aktuell gemacht hat.
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Classism
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Medical content, Lesbophobia, War
It can be a tricky read in 2025, where it does not have a modern flow. But it is worth persevering to the end, to understand the importance of the text, and the true feeling for the story.
Definitely worth reading something lighter afterwards!
Moderate: Death, Suicidal thoughts
Graphic: Death, Violence, Gaslighting, War
Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Torture, Murder, Classism
Graphic: Torture, Gaslighting, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Medical content, Dementia, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Dysphoria, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual violence, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, War
Moderate: Death, Suicide, Blood
Minor: Child death, Drug use, Rape
I understand why this book is a classic for a reason. Orwell’s writing explores themes and concepts that are still eerily relevant as ever due to the human race’s propensity for repeating history.
However, to say that this book was everything that I wanted and more wouldn’t be accurate. Overall, the plot and ending of the book were well received, and I really enjoyed how Orwell was so easily able to illustrate such a feeling of suspense and uncomfortable tension through the description of the way Big Brother ran society with a brutally unforgiving iron fist. This anxious feeling was especially magnified for me through his descriptions of the telescreens, newspeak & doublethink, and the slogan,
“WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
So insanely chilling.
My chief complaints about the book were
A) How much of the book that Winston & Julia’s love affair took up. While I understand Orwell’s choice to go in such a direction, I was hoping that the book would focus more on day to day life whilst living under the regime of big brother and would show Winston rebelling in some other more exciting way. That being said, the depiction of their relationship is very much convincing and realistic and it really does a good job at showing how often the complexity of human sexuality rears its ugly head, even under the most extreme of circumstances. I do also particularly appreciate and agree with Orwell’s sentiment of the act of being sexual being a political act in itself. But all in all, I felt that the elongated scenes of intimacy shared between the two read more like a sort of sci fi romance novel.
B) How long that the reading of the manifesto of the Brotherhood took!!! I felt like the concepts described were redundant and I was a bit frustrated by how in depth it went because I was more interested in the plot of the book itself. That being said, I’m sure when I reread this in the future, I’ll grow to appreciate it a bit more.
All of that aside, I really enjoyed reading this book. The ending was perfect, IMO. Very realistic in showing how both vulnerable and malleable the human psyche is when it comes to falling victim to propaganda and indoctrination. Chefs kiss. Will be re-reading in the future. This is without a shred of doubt, a most crucial read, especially while weathering through a society on the verge of collapse.
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Stalking, Murder, Gaslighting, War, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Confinement, Infidelity, Misogyny, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma
Moderate: Body shaming, Death, Racism, Sexism, Sexual content, Slavery, Gaslighting, War, Classism