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A review by brittanykroeckel
1984 by George Orwell
4.0
Gonna be honest, I struggled to get through this book. Parts of it were dull and I got bored quite easily. However, in the final third of the book I couldn’t seem to keep the book down. The characters were alright — Julia seems like an unimportant character, but I could just be biased cause I don’t like her.
It’s uneasy to think about how we might actually be starting to see the ideas present in this book unraveling in our eyes in today’s society — censorship, unconditional patriotism, suppression of “radicalism,” the rise of monopolies in all quarters of life.
This novel no doubt gets us thinking. What is true and what is not? How do we know this for sure? Do we at all? What is reality? A deeply reflective read nonetheless.
It’s uneasy to think about how we might actually be starting to see the ideas present in this book unraveling in our eyes in today’s society — censorship, unconditional patriotism, suppression of “radicalism,” the rise of monopolies in all quarters of life.
This novel no doubt gets us thinking. What is true and what is not? How do we know this for sure? Do we at all? What is reality? A deeply reflective read nonetheless.