1984

The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell, is presented as a warning about a possible, but not inevitable fate for humanity. The society we live in can become the totalitarian state of Big Brother and the Party if we allow it. The abuse of power and dehumanization of mankind are two dangerous prospects. The purpose of this novel is to send the reader a message prompting them to take action in order to prevent this …

…Wigan Pier, "We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive. . . .And this is merely a preliminary stage, in a country still rich with the loot of a hundred years. Presently there may be coming G-d knows what horrors--horrors of which, in this sheltered island, we have not even a traditional knowledge." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**