Nineteen Eighty-Four | Wikipedia audio article

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00:01:22 1 History and title
00:01:59 1.1 Copyright status
00:05:02 2 Background
00:06:13 3 Plot
00:10:44 4 Characters
00:15:34 4.1 Main characters
00:15:42 4.2 Secondary characters
00:16:18 4.3 Unseen characters
00:19:19 5 World in novel
00:20:01 5.1 Ingsoc
00:20:09 5.2 Ministries of Oceania
00:20:36 5.2.1 Ministry of Peace
00:21:11 5.2.2 Ministry of Plenty
00:21:55 5.2.3 Ministry of Truth
00:22:25 5.2.4 Ministry of Love
00:22:49 5.3 Doublethink
00:23:15 5.4 Political geography
00:24:06 5.5 The Revolution
00:25:13 5.6 The War
00:27:00 5.7 Living standards
00:29:23 6 Themes
00:32:44 6.1 Nationalism
00:32:52 6.2 Futurology
00:34:18 6.3 Censorship
00:34:57 6.4 Surveillance
00:35:45 7 Newspeak appendix
00:36:40 8 Sources for literary motifs
00:37:37 9 Influences
00:44:28 10 Critical reception
00:49:47 11 In other media
00:50:52 12 Cultural impact
00:51:10 13 iBrave New World/i comparisons
00:56:48 14 See also



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Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. The story was mostly written at Barnhill, a farmhouse on the Scottish island of Jura, at times while Orwell suffered from severe tuberculosis. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the risks of government overreach, totalitarianism, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society.The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.
Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Many terms used in the novel entered common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, and memory hole. Nineteen Eighty-Four also popularised the adjective "Orwellian", connoting things such as official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state. Time included it on its one hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. It was placed on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels, reaching No. 13 on the editors' list and No. 6 on the readers' list. In 2003, the novel was No. 8 The Big Read survey by the BBC.