Wednesday, June 11, 2014

1984

Author: George Orwell
Stars: 4
Review by: Matriarch

Dystopian novel about a future where people are controlled by the Party in the form of Big Brother. There is endless war with faceless enemies to reduce resources and keep the people in a weakened state. Big Brother monitors and manipulates the citizens and love and relationships have been outlawed. I paired it with Brave New World and re-read it to teach it to my high school students.
 

1 comment:

saraswati said...

Told my students that this book means more to American's today then it did back in the day. This may have been considered a joke to us back then...now...not so much.