My Take- 1984 by George Orwell
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face- FOREVER. 1984 by George Orwell plunges us into a bleak, horrifying society with a totalitarian government which is ruthless in its pursuit of power. It is a society with no place for individual. The novel depicts a future dystopian society to its last details and this is what makes it so terrifying. It will be a nightmare to be trapped in such a society because the totalitarian government controls not only the physical body of its subjects but also the psyche of the subjects. History is replete with examples of totalitarian regime but the one depicted in this novel outdoes everyone else in its atrocity, oppression, extracting abject self-submission from its subjects, and the ruthless pursuit of absolute power over matter and mind. The Party (the totalitarian government of Oceania) uses all possible means, such as omnipresent surveillance, fixed routine, etc. to keep its citizen under total control. But the...