British Political Novels (Book Guide) - Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thoughtcrime, Ingsoc, Orwellian, Nineteen Eighty-Four in Popular Media (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (novels not included). Pages: 34. Chapters: Nineteen Eighty-Four, Thoughtcrime, Ingsoc, Orwellian, Nineteen Eighty-Four in popular media, The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism, List of Newspeak words, Jura, Scotland, Perpetual war, 2 + 2 = 5, Lothair, Doublethink, Inventing Elliot, 1985, 1984, Memory hole, Ministry of Truth, Two Minutes Hate, Hate week, Prolefeed, Telescreen, Ministry of Plenty, Ministry of Peace, Ministry of Love, Crimestop, Versificator, Goodthink, Prolesec. Excerpt: Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes written 1984) is a 1948 dystopian fiction written by George Orwell about a society ruled by an oligarchical dictatorship. The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. Oceania is ruled by a political party simply called The Party. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy which allows the Party to manipulate and control humanity. In the Ministry of Truth, protagonist Winston Smith is a civil servant responsible for perpetuating the Party's propaganda by revising historical records to render the Party omniscient and always correct, yet his meager existence disillusions him to the point of seeking rebellion against Big Brother. As literary political fiction, Nineteen Eighty-Four is considered a classic novel of the social science fiction subgenre. Since its publication in 1949, many of its terms and concepts, such as Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, and memory hole, have become contemporary vernacular. In addition, the novel popularised the adjective Orwellian, which refers to lies, surveillance, and manipulation of the past in the service of a totalitarian agenda. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Nineteen Eighty-Four 13th on its list of the 100 bes...