The first time I came into contact with the translated version of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was in Ma Zhe's class at the university. I chose this more novel type of reading from the homework list given by the lecturer. I read it in less than a week at the time, and I spent a week reading this book worrying about Winston and Julia every day.
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" is Orwell's handed down work, which can be regarded as the most famous dystopian and anti-totalitarian political allegory in the world's literary circles. In his novels, words such as "Big Brother", "Double Mind" and "Newspeak" created by him have been included in authoritative English dictionaries. Common terms such as "Orwellism" continue to appear in the pen of journalists covering international news, which shows the far-reaching influence of their works in English-speaking countries.
The whole book was read in gray depression. Compared with the film, the details in the book are more detailed. For example, in two minutes, the repeated psychological activities of the protagonist Winston's heart, and the book spends a long time describing this contradiction. And in the film, it is summed up with three or two narrations. "IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH" ignorance is strength
The amount of 20 grams that was only reduced yesterday, and 20 grams were added the next day, generally did not change, but the comrades who have been deeply under the rule of Oceania do not understand this kind of deception, they are already numb, too numb. Remember what happened the day before, like everything Big Brother gave was good.
The inner resistance to Big Brother's domination, but the paradoxical psychological activity of fear of facial crime. The mental activity that Winston still repeated after he returned to the room: the party says the world is flat, the party says 2+2 equals 5, yes, ignore it, forget it. Double Thinking, Crime Stops...Ignorance is Power...
Thought crime is terrible. Winston's neighbor Parsons was reported to have committed a thought crime by his youngest daughter, but he was proud of his youngest daughter. What a sad person, what a sad era. Is it not the greatest tragedy of utopian society?
At this time, he hated Oceania's rule, but he couldn't get away from living in this siege. He turned around and suddenly saw the avatar of Big Brother in the room "Big Brother is watching U"
The strong resistance in his heart made him decide not to remain silent anymore
The society under Big Brother throughout the book is out of tune with the one we live in, and it's all different. Even when I read it, I have the slightest disgust for utopia. In George Orwell's description, 1984 is the product of that extreme utopia, and this work is also a classic work of dystopian themes. In the book, utopia cannot be summed up in one word to present communism. Many in the comments linked what the film is attacking to China today. I don't agree with this kind of thinking. What's more, "Chinese people should take a good look", "Communism is shit" and so on, without commenting.
Just as "The Wolf of Wall Street" reveals the behavior of capitalists, "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is a perfect dystopia for some people, but it should be a kind of introspection for those who yearn for communism, freedom isn't enslave. The utopia we want is a democratic utopia, not an extreme utopia. The last two of the story in the film were taken to the world's most terrifying room 101 (ancient Chinese torture), and Winston and Julia were finally completely brainwashed, just like when Winston and Julia first met. You know you won't be successful.
"Thought sin does not lead to death, thought sin is death."
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