Nineteen Eighty-Four

Main Ideas

• The theme of totalitarianism and the state's absolute power over the individual
• State control over information and history
• Newspeak as a tool for manipulating thought
• Perpetual war as a means to keep society in submission and fear
• The concept of Big Brother as the embodiment of an all-seeing state
• The complete loss of personal freedom and privacy
• Manipulation and control of the masses through propaganda and surveillance
• Utopia and dystopia as reflections on the future of society
• Love and human emotions under the pressure of a totalitarian system
• The individual's resistance to the system and their inevitable defeat