Name Essay /Book title Reading Report School of English Studies Jiang Xiaoteng Date 2015.11.05 1984 Author George Orwell Class Genre 13 novel Useful words and phrase Who controls the past controls the future,who controls the present controls the past. Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.If that granted,all else follows. Good word choice Granted proles Beautiful sentences War is peace,freedom is slavery,ignorance is strength. Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree Structure it's very weak, very loose, and complex, but it has a political purpose Rewriting War is peace,freedom is slavery,ignorance is strength. My comments Besides Animal Farm, 1984 is the second novel of George Orwell’s I have read. Comparing with Animal Farm, 1984 is more political and more penetrating. In the novel, there’s a sentence:” If there was hope, it lays in proles”. However, how about the proles? They are wild, and they are a wild power. Maybe the party can’t control them, but it can regard them as animals and say:”Proles and animals are free!” When I read the book, what impresses me most is the superiority of the party. It is invincible. “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.” Nevertheless, it is the party who controls the present, that is to say, it controls everything anytime. It always makes up lies and changes the history to maintain its own status. What’s more, it doesn’t give its members freedom. Even their marriages must have a recognized purpose which is to beget children for the service of the party. Besides, the party also wants to narrow the range of thoughts by using a new language called Newspeak. To be a member of such a party, he must be very sensitive. Every day even every minute, he is in the danger of being accused of conspiracies. For example, Wiston-who believes nobody-always thinks that people who are close to him must be a spy or an agent. Thus, he misunderstands Julia who is crazy about him. How silly he is! In the author's idea there is an omnipotent dictator, and the whole society is in the shortage of supplies and the operation of deception.Just this social how willingness regardless of the cost of a general were thoroughly thought transformation, and the transformation was complete they shot off, let a person 100 think not to get its solution.This is undoubtedly a waste of resources in vain.In fact, this is because the authors do not understand the Soviet society caused by and by Western media disclosure of snippets of information and understanding of the Communist movement the author imagined a without ideal, there is no future \"totalitarian\" society of the final form. \"Totalitarian\" is a strange, coined the phrase, may not be such a doctrine to struggle for life; in fact, it is the end result of all the great social reformism.
