1984 - Book Summary
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In the novel 1984, author George Orwell presents a dystopian world where three totalitarian states-Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia-exist constantly at war with each other. The parties use technological advancements to keep their own members and the masses under careful observation and constant control. The novel's protagonist, Winston Smith, is a citizen of the super-state Oceania-an oligarchy of hierarchical rule under the principles of English Socialism known as Ingsoc.
The Party consists of Inner Party members, who are the ruling elite, and regular Party members, who are citizens of Oceania. The Party's leader, Big Brother, displays massive images of his kind throughout London. The images, complete with dark hair and a substantial mustache, often include the words "Big Brother is Watching You."
Winston works in the Records Department of the Ministry of Truth, which handles all Party literature and propaganda, altering or destroying documents from the Party once published. He often throws evidence into a “memory hole” where it is sucked into the building's internal furnaces. These actions ensure that the Party's version of the Past is never questioned. Such alterations often remove a person from history or make previously flawed predictions accurate.
The other three ministries are the Ministry of Love, which handles all Party prisoners; the Ministry of Peace, which handles war; and the Ministry of Plenty, which manages the production of Party goods. These state-indorsed products include Victory cigarettes, Victory gin, and Victory coffee, all of which are of extremely poor quality.
Winston has never quite accepted the Party and its ideological principles of Ingsoc. He believes in an unalterable past and finds Party politics reprehensible. Winston wishes for privacy, intimacy, freedom, and love but cannot openly express any of this for fear of death. Such thoughts constitute "thought crimes," which are highly punishable offenses resulting in arrest, imprisonment, torture, and often death.
When the book opens, Winston is writing in a diary inside his meager apartment where a telescreen transmits Party information and propaganda. This state-run spying device also allows the propaganda team, known as the “Thought Police,” to listen to and watch Party members in Oceania. Winston is fortunate to have a small nook in his apartment out of the view of the telescreen. There he writes his true memories in a diary purchased from an old junk shop, all related to his life and the violence of the Party which is quite common in the age of Oceania. Penning these thoughts is punishable by death if he is caught.
At the Ministry of Truth Winston sits through the daily “Two Minutes Hate,” which rails against Oceania's enemy, Eurasia. The propaganda is so powerful that the people around him begin shouting at the screen. Of course, Winston must join in to avoid suspicion.
Finding himself increasingly curious about the past, Winston returns to the junk shop where he bought his diary. The proprietor, a kind old man named Mr. Charrington, shows him a room above the shop and Winston imagines what it might be like to live there among old things, free from the constant presence of the telescreen.
One day, at the Ministry of Truth, a dark-haired girl named Julia, trips and falls to ground in front of Winston. As he helps here to her feet, she slips him a note declaring her love for him. Winston is astounded, but extremely excited by the possibility of a love affair. The affair must be secret, as the Party forbids any sort of sexual pleasure. In fact, sexual repression is a tenet of Ingsoc. The Party must approve every marriage, and it is unacceptable for a man and a woman to express any physical attraction for one another. All energy must be devoted to the Party.
With a great deal of effort to remain undetected, Julia and Winston finally meet in a secluded clearing in a wooded area. Winston learns Julia’s name for the first time. They discuss their beliefs regarding the Party then begin their love affair. At one point, Winston notices that the secluded spot she has led them to exactly matches a place he constantly sees in his dreams that he has termed the “Golden Country.” Winston and Julia are limited to public interactions and minimal conversations, but the two discover a mutual hatred of the Party and eventually fall in love. Winston believes that it is possible to overthrow the Party, while Julia is satisfied simply living a double life. Eventually, Winston rents the room above Mr. Charrington's flat where Winston and Julia meet in secret.
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The drawing of Winston as a broken man was depressing looking
But his eyebrows are still better than mine
1984 taught me how twisted governments can be, and how closely it is to some modern world countries
Yep
North korea
Soon every capitalist country will be just like this
Never trust the gov't
@fiorinopizio4554 America in the current state.
The biden regime actually tried to start the ministry of truth and have desires of imprisoning people who disagree with the party.
Winston knew O'Brian since the beginning of the story, he even knew his name, unlike Julia, and Winston had dreams where O'Brian told him:
"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
In the building of ministry of love , lights never goes off...
ahhhhhhh, i finished reading the book today and now it all makes sense. The prisons in the ministry of love don't turn off the lights, hence the quote "We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness." This book is such a great read (or listen like i did)
this should be a mandatory read for high-schoolers. it is quite scary when you see that a lot of modern governments are in the early stages of becoming the government in the book.
Early stages? More like 80% completed
Mandatory you say…
LITERALLY 1984!!! /s
it is :(
"it is quite scary when you see that a lot of modern governments are in the early stages of becoming the government in the book"
and here you gave yourself the answer as to why it will NOT become a mandatory read for high-schoolers in any country.
@@scarnoir6566 depends where you live i guess. It is a mandatory set book where i live
The art in this video is so good! I'd love to see a full-fledged animated 1984 movie one day (but not dumbed down for children like Animal Farm was)
I liked animated Animal Farm :c
The movie is really good too
Animal farm as an animated film was extremely dark and not dumbed down.
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There was a live-action miniseries version of "Animal Farm" on TV a couple of decades ago. I think it was on one of Ted Turner's channels.
I read this book a long time ago in 9th grade and it genuinely shocked and disturbed me but I understand how he couldn't fight the brain washing the ending for him just felt so painfully realistic
I was one of the dumbasses who thought it was fiction, went to 101 and everything... Now they just kill us with the environment overtime, makes them feel like Mrs. Bigger, guilt free death is like sugar free candy, mostly sucks 🧬
The craziest part is that we are watching this as we are watched by Big Brother.
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In the end, he loves his big brother, but he was shot in the head after rejoicing in Oceania's victory. The aim of the party is to transform the dissidents and then kill them, not to kill them directly so that people don't think of them as heroes/martyrs.
He wasn’t shot. They just made him think he was to be shot… all part of the brainwashing.
God, such a wonderful book. A story told in a grand simple fashion.
this is the most comprehensive summary of the book! thank you for this
Orwell got it wrong: the telescreens in our homes won't be imposed on us by an oppressive Big Brother. The people will fight one another for the privilege of having the most luxurious telescreen on their bodies.
cellphones are the telescreen
it wasn't imposed though, one of the characters mentioned not buying one
Wrong the government simply read the book and made the process smoother. Almost everything he warns about is instituted in America today
The most important piece of literature for our time
Awesome summary and slideshow! Very informative, detailed, and quick. Thanks!
a great summary as always. I love 1984, I think its a story everyone should read and think about. but is probably the most disturbing thing I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing in a book.
There are way worse that are kinda like this try Tender Is The Flesh, little spoiler humans eat each other and it’s dystopian just like 1984
Oceania encompasses most of the Americas as well. The UK is the "Airstrip One" part of it.
Big Brother may or may not have been a real person in "the revolution" and may or may not still be alive.
The same goes for Goldstein.
or neither may have existed at all. the year 1984 may not actually be 1984. the party says that the year is 1984 therefore it is so. the party says goldstien exists therefore he does.
Big Brother is God and Goldstein is Satan. Religion is a tool to control the public. Other cultures have different religions. Western civilization is Oceania.
Is big brother symbolizes oppression on every soul that totalitarianism destroys
Took mushrooms a bout a few years again and decided to take the train into nyc, a man sat next to me on th amtrak, didn’t feel like talking but we got to it, the man told me to read every banned book on the list and to start with 1984, I’m about 8 in and just finished this. By far the best thing I’ve read, really opens your eyes to how scary your government can be
Just finished this! Took a while for me to finish since I started before my semester began. What a sad ending for Winston. Thank you for this summary!
I just completed the book. Suggesting you all the most marvelous novels ever.
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“Heeyyyy, what are you doing big-bro???”
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Perfec summary with perfect photoshow 👍👍👍 please keep going on
Sad that today. Everyone has their own personal camera and gets upset if no one is watching
I quit reading the book part way though so I got to make up my own ending where something good actually happened. Also, that level or torture is deeply ineffective for the stated goal, constant endless brutality leads to desensitization after a while they just shut down and mentally regress to nothing, not brainwashing at all really more like depersonalization.
There’s already something hopeful. The end of the book contains an appendix on Newspeak, which is written in both past tense and plain English.
Thats sort of the entire point of the book. There's a line "When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him.".
The entire point of Winstons torture is to state the point that the party quite literally controls everything - even the mind. Smith loses himself to double think and finally accepts big brother. This ending not only concludes the book in an absolutely unexpected yet genius way, but it also points towards the ideology that a dictaor run socialist government will go to great lengths to maintain the structure of society no matter what the cost.
I don't think you got the book if you think it was ineffective. The idea is to break the mind. Break it so much that you no longer have a will to even truly use it any longer. Break it in a way that you simply accept any information given to you. If someone says something is good, you deem it so, you just follow along. Your mind is to broken to do otherwise.
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I noticed that this video says next to nothing about doublethink or Newspeak, not even a word about the ruling party's three main doublethink pronouncements: "War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength."
Also, the narrator gets the story wrong when he says that when Winston Smith (the main character) joins his fellow workers for the "Two Minute Hate" period, he and they all shout their hatred against Eurasia, the country that's the principle enemy of Oceania.
I've read the book, so I know that what they're really yelling their hate about is not a country, but a person, namely Emanuel Goldstein, the main enemy of the state. He's referred to as a former participant in the "revolution" that brought about the rise of Oceania and of Big Brother, the all-knowing, all-hearing, and all-seeing dictator of Oceania. In the Two Minute Hate, a newsreel comes on showing Goldstein giving a speech about how the revolution had been betrayed, and how, instead of bringing peace and freedom to the people, it brought them constant wars and oppression. The loyal party members are encouraged to scream at Goldstein's film so loud, that no one can hear his voice or his words. (He's also suspected of being a part of the "Brotherhood," the alleged secret organization that plans to overthrow Big Brother, and which Winston Smith and his secret mistress, Julia, are urged to join by O'Brian of the Inner Party, unaware that he's actually working with the Thought Police to trap the two rebellious lovers and to turn them over to the Ministry Of Love, where they are tortured into "betraying" each other, that is, they're forced to stop loving each other, to accept the philosophy of the Party, and to "love Big Brother.")
Incidentally, Emanuel Goldstein is believed to have been based on Leon Trotsky, a former supporter of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and the Soviet Union, until the 1930s, when he left Russia and began making speeches against its Communist regime and against the rule of Josef Stalin. (who was supposedly the model for Big Brother, although others claim that the character was based on Adolf Hitler, or Benito Mussolini, or that B.B. is a composite character, that he was a combination of these and other notorious tyrants.)
Eventually, after finding out that Trotsky was hiding in Mexico, Stalin sent an assassin to "eliminate" the man he considered a "traitor" to the Soviet state. The hired killer tracked down Trotsky and stabbed and beat him several times. Trotsky lingered in a hospital bed for many days, before finally dying from his wounds.
It’s why they switch tactics. Only ever going about utilising beatdowns isn’t enough. We even see it since Winston doesn’t change. Then they soften him up a bit, then they use fear tactics. He doesn’t switch until he gives up Julia. That was the one thing he clung onto, and that’s how he became lost in the end. Not necessarily due to what they did, but due to what he did. When he lost her, he lost a core reason of what he was fighting for and gave up.
That can absolutely happen.
When corrupt people do nothing but deny them and/or project their crimes onto their enemies, they are saying to you "2+2=5"
It's remarkable how Winston's actions are punishable by death, even if laws of any kind exist in Oceania.
This book is terrifying to me.
Your conditioning is only just getting started... God help us
Brilliant illustrations
Perfect analysis Sir
That was a very sad ending.
It was, I was slightly disappoointed initially but after some more thought it makes sense and it shouldn't have ended any other way.
It was, but it was truthful. You can see it today.
The appendix refers to the party and engsoc in the past tense. I got from that the party and big brother does in fact, eventually fall.
I'm supposted to be writing an analysis of this book tomorrow. I'm now binging videos about 1984 for research since I didn't actually read it.
That's too bad. It's a really good book.
You should read it.
Did you read it yet? Great book
I'm actually planning to read this book but this summary is so painful for me maybe I'll pass. My heart still hurts as I typed this.
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It's even more painful to read in all its detail. It's one of the few books to bring out genuine emotion and the only one I've ever read that has made me cry. It's a fantastic book though you absolutely need to read it for your self.
yeah, i read it and it was definitely a heavy book. but im super glad i read it bc it's very important, and perhaps one day, the opportunity to read it will be gone :/
Better to see a painful truth than a comfortable lie.
I just finished the novel. It feels soul crushing and very defeating.
you just saved my grade in swedish! Thanks!
1984 is closer to 1949 than it is to 2021
Oceania sounds like a word from
Barbie and a mermaid tale movie
Actually, there was a 1984 movie (how cool is this?) Made in 1984! It's positively faithful to the book, takes out the boring part where Winston Smith reads all about the government in power, and it scares the bejesus out of you in the end! It's perfect as a film because of its faithful treatment of the source material! Watch the movie, get the book afterwards and then read the boring details about the government and you'll be all caught up.
Also one made in the 50s that's on RUclips for free
The boring part you say? The most telling piece of the work; dummy
Bravo my friend 👏
Can I say this video saved me from my English book reading exam?
You missed out on the chance to read a great book
Good summary
now i can understand why power is more precious for men
I highly recommend the Steve Parker dramatized audiobook. A great listen.
The ending was, "He loves Big Brother, as the bullet entered his brain"
Well prepared video
Depressing but well explained
Heard the proposed restric act today and thought about 1984 immediately.
thanks!
what a great book!
This video saved my Advanced ELA grade
George Orwell predicted the future with 1984. Only, we willing submitted to a modern 1984 rather than having it forced upon us. Orwell said in his last interview “don’t let it happen” and yet we failed him miserably.
I didn’t I’m only 27 but I see through it all time to 1776 I got land and guns boi
Those who know history can predict the future. It’s why they try their best to change it (much like what Winston’s job is), and why they’re so committed in making it tedious at schools, so that kids are too bored to ever look into it.
This is a brillant novel
Im seeing Roblox slowly in the early stages of turning into 1984 in the context of corruption, greediness, and silencing those who expose Roblox's flaws in any legal way even forging documents
Who would have thought that we all actually love our telescreens, and take them wherever we go?!
so the moral is that we are helpless against a potential tyrannical society that surrounds us, and we will subdue in order to survive?
doesn't really tell us how too deal with such a society, any thoughts?
The book is a warning and tells you what to prevent
No. I see the moral as governments needing an INSANE amount of effort to brainwash people. But the difference is, many brainwashings can be done by having populations willing give up their freedoms over small bits at a time, and dumb themselves while remaining oblivious.
So basically too late time to 1776🔫
it totally tells you how to deal with tyranical facist government. it tells us, single party tyranny is most dengerous type of tyranny. A dictator can be stopped in long run, but something maintained by as organisation as an organ of country can never be stopped. if one went down new fifty will emerge with oppresion in thier justifiable way.
thanks for helping me pass my english exam
how many fingers do you see? (was the question)
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People say this will happen...it already is like this notice most of the citizens don’t know what’s going on.
If it is like 1984 how come you are able to say this?
@@rickrozen2341CBDC social credit score look At Australia where you can get arrested depending on your expression with the Face ID, have a sad face bad news so force yourself to smile, in 2023 freedom is being stripped away this book 1984 predicted this and this book gives us warnings about what and how to avoid it
@@rickrozen2341Because he, like me, and probably you, are unimportant. We don’t have influence. If we did, and could affect other people’s way of thinking and living on a massive scale, and brought attention to this, we’d be labeled far right extremists, and attacked endlessly until we gave up. It’s not like we don’t see this.
I’m not making it up either. This very book has been banned from many institutions and those who read it are called “far right extremists”.
What a sad, sad book, so good it was though
Please, why are these books banned? In my country they are a part of our literature curriculum.
The chess position at the end is impossible to achieve.
Exactly.
What is the pawn doing over there?
thought crime
Telescreens!? You mean Alexa?
Smart TV, Laptops and computers with built in cameras?
@@hargisP2 Lol laptops have had built in cameras for a while now.
Nicely put
Talk about a happy ending!
I wish Winston and Julia escaped from that place and could be a proper couple
Still have to give the nod of the cap to A Brave New World. But both combined equal what the world is to become
This is so deep..
The thing I never hear people talk about 1984 is how will that society will fall? All Empire's do and will fall to dust so how long till Big-Brother, Oceania, Eurasia an that way of life on earth will collapse? It may take a hundred or two years it may even take fifty or less? And another thing What were Big-Brother, Oceania and Eurasia's plans for the future? Were they making any new scientific development into anything like going into space or were the only new things we're ever more horrible ways to torturing humanity? Cause if there were no new inventions to aid humanity especially in medicine a posable disease could have easily collapse this society as easy as a twig but what then? How would people rebuild society, could they even rebuild society? Part of me thinks after what that world has done to humanity I find it hard to believes they can but some of me thinks that they could, some part how against all odds by God there's a chance, life always finds away.
There is no empire, there is thought control. The empire controls thought. There is no physical reality. Eurasia may not even exist.
10 years give or take, just my opinion
I think in the end, big brother lost because the book is written from a historical perspective with no newspeak. It hints that the totalitarian state was overturned.
it is implied that the party has achieved a sort of stability and won't fall. Even the wars they wage are pointless and endless. All technology is subservient to the goal of control. Older regimes fell because they could not control people as completely as the Party does.
Agreed. Every empire meetsmeets it’s end. Oceania isn’t sustainable.
Tbh that book is good and I read it voluntarily
Persone:thinks
Though police:thought police open up
Some how Julia reminds me of a man I was once involved with....
Just saved me 11 hours lol. Thanks bruh
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He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
I don't know what my Reaction this Ending
I wonder if the Expendables crew could have broken Winston out of the Ministry of Love
00:03 1984 presents a dystopian world of surveillance and control by the ruling elite.
01:24 The ministries and state-endorsed products control the lives of the party members.
02:41 Winston is increasingly curious about the past
03:51 Julia and Winston meet secretly and develop a mutual hatred of the Party.
05:05 Winston and Julia join the Brotherhood
06:17 Winston is arrested and tortured by the thought police.
07:33 Winston submits to party's reality under torture
08:46 Winston's transformation and hopeless relationship with Julia
Snitches get stitches. Unplug your telescreen.
wouldn't it be suspicious if a telescreen goes dark?
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This video was not approved by the ministry of truth please all reported to the ministry of love
I hate to be this guy but that position on the chess board isn't possible.
The board is backwards
my studying for my final essay
Orwell describing todays world.and what is to come.
If that is true how come you are able to say this?
Was the book banned in some regions of the world for some time?
If only he named it 2024 he would literally have been a prophet
When he finnaly surrenders, i felt really bad .like how can you give up ,your the protagonist of this book. Wasn't expecting that ending tho .
Thank you, now I don't have to read the book!
I’m reading this in middle school right now
Very similar storyline to the political situation in Victoria, Australia for the past few years... :O
We live in 1984 already
Me: Osheeanna
*OSHEEANIIA*
Cant imagine what the political prisoners are going through in DC.
you mean the morons who stormed a government building filled with MP’s chanting for their heads? Yeah totally unjust punishment!
@@several. It was set up. The real footage is literally everywhere. 🙄
Winston today is Julian and Andrew.
That rate cage scene is just so awful and scary and sad
low volume, otherwise good
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Guys I have a question. In which period of history this novel of Big Brother alludes to?
The book was written in the late 1930s, so 1984 was still in the future. While the year 1984 is technically in our past, 1984 was supposed to be a close future for the readers of the time.
Ignore the other comment. The book was written in the mid-late 1940's, and was meant to be a criticism if totalitarianism, and dictators like hitler and stalin, who believed that complete rule over their citizens was the only way to be powerful. Big brother in the novel and movies is even described as visually resemblant to hitler and stalin.
It was released in 1948
Doesn’t really matter, does it? Orwell wrote this in the 40s, but we’re seeing it play out right now. I guess what matters about it is, whatever time it actually happens.
What do u even say to that
20
Terrifying
But extremely realistic
This is scary !
the left will take away your freedom.
@@tochukwuudu7763 shut the fuck up
@@dr.orange6544 Taking away freedom is actually a good thing if I'm coming from the left's perspective as none can oppose me.
I’m definitely not here bc I don’t want to read the 300 paged book
Winston reminds me of Uyghurs in China
but good video
This is literally north Korea
So you’re not seeing this in the West at all? This is literally wherever they permit Leftism to exist.