I finished reading 1984 today. I did enjoy the book and I found the themes running through it interesting. It highlights how much power organisations can hold over humans and this book shows and extremely exaggerated case of this.
Themes
Manipulation and psychology - how the Party can control people, they convert people to their way of thinking
Control over fact - rewriting history, eliminating evidence of people’s existence, changing facts
Totalitarian governments - people eventually concede to all following one idea and believing it
Cruelty and oppression - torture, starvation, mental abuse
Technology and invasion of privacy - telescreens, Party members are continuously under surveillance
Symbols of hope and efforts for change - the prole woman who sings is imagined giving birth to future generations who will overtake the Party, the paperweight symbolises an attempt to hold on to the past
This was the first book I have read cover to cover in quite a long time because I never normally think to take time out and read but I have found it really enjoyable to actually get into a book, especially one with some proper meaning to it.
In regards to imagery, I had planned to be sketching about the book while I was reading it but I haven’t really been inspired to draw anything related to the book. Maybe I would be if I read the book again, now that I am clear on the story line but this is a worry for me as the author I choose needs to inspire me to make pictures and not just make me want to read. I am going to research George Orwell as a person now and see if his back story interests me, if it does I can see this being a potential route to take this project.
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