1984 by George Orwell

★★★★☆

How about the past tense of “run” is “runned” and “drink” is “drinked”? And opposite of “Good” is “Ungood” and that of “Cold” is “Uncold”? I love it. How can I “unlove” it? 😜 This was what they were doing for the Newspeak language mentioned in the book 1984 by George Orwell.

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

I can find the above slogans throughout book. Of course, that is what the book is explains. You can find a note on the slogans here.

1984 is written around World War II time, warns about the totalitarianism. It is really scary to imagine a life in the totalitarianism society. George Orwell wonderfully captures it through his protagonist Winston Smith.

After reading the book, I watched the movie version of it directed by Michael Anderson. It is a good film to watch after reading the book. I think it would be little hard to appreciate the movie without prior reading of the book as the movie sequences are little faster to follow. There is another adaptation of it directed by Michael Radford. I don’t think I’ll watch it as I feel I have got enough of 1984.

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