Posts Tagged ‘George Orwell’
True story: a friend told me how she invested a large amount of money in order to advertise her product on a fairly central website. The campaign bombed and my friend queried the veracity of the site owner’s claim that his site is a popular place of convergence: “you cannot tell me that your site is popular and charge for advertising, when in fact all that you have is a large number of visitors. This is disingenuous!” she fumed. (more…)
As a teenager, I literally stumbled upon François Truffaut‘s powerful interpretation of Ray Bradbury’s 1953 book Fahrenheit 451. I went to see the movie simply because it featured Julie Christie, the woman who invaded my pubescent dreams as a blonde Russian siren named Lara in David Lean‘s adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s epic Doctor Zhivago. On my way home from the movie theatre I stopped at a second hand bookstore and bought a copy of Fahrenheit 451: (more…)
Googling “Big Brother” returns 43,500,000 results but Googling “big brother” Orwell removes all but 623,000 results.
Big Brother is a character in George Orwell‘s novel 1984 (aka Ninety Eighty Four.) Published a year before Orwell’s death in 1949, the book has a clear doom-and-gloom (dystopic) view of future society. Orwell perceived a future in which the world is divided into three areas: Eastasia, Eurasia, and Oceania – which includes the United Kingdom (renamed Airstrip One.) Under the 24/7/365 watchful eye of a ruling technocracy (known simply as The Party), people’s every move and every thought is watched, scrutinised and diarised. The Party is led by the know-all, see-all master of all Oceanians’ destiny – known only as Big Brother. (more…)

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