Involved in the NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, I unconsciously started a revolution in my mental world, which significantly shook my na?ve belief and arouse my increasing doubts about those so-called the truths. On that leisurely afternoon, it happened just as a storm burst, rapidly and fiercely.

The NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, a political fiction written by George Orwell, vividly depicts a brutal world of war, government surveillance and public mind control, dictated先行词是哪一个？句子过长，可小切一下。 by a party named English Socialism, headed by Big Brother, the quasi-divine Party leader who enjoys an intense cult of personality, but who may not even exist.

The story begins with the sentence” It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” Initially, I am utterly confused about the figure ”thirteen”, as anyone with a mite of common sense could see how impossible it is. When the church clock unexpectedly struck thirteen times at one’ o clock, according to lesson 2 in our textbook, the vicar naturally realized, as all ordinary people would, that the clock didn’t work properly. While in the NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR, people

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1984 is not a particularly good novel, but it is a very good essay. On the novel front, the characters are bland and you only care about them because of the awful things they live through. As a novel all the political exposition is heavyhanded, and the message completely overrides any sense of storytelling. As an essay, the points it makes can be earthshaking. It seems everyone who has so much as gotten a parking ticket thinks he lives in a 1984-dystopia. Every administration that reaches for power, injures civil liberties or collaborates too much with media is accused of playing Big Brother. These are the successes of 1984's paranoia, far outliving its original intent as a battery against where Communism was going (Orwell was a severely disappointed Marxist), and while people who compare their leaders to Big Brother are usually overreaching themselves and speak far away from Orwell's intent and vision, it is a useful catchcloth for dissent. Like so many immortalized books with a social vision, 1984's actual substance is so thin that its ideologies and fear-mongering aspects can be stretched and skewed to suit the readers. If you'd like a better sense of the real world and Orwell's intents, rather than third-hand

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Orwell’s 1984

外国语学院英语B班

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 Iread 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-alwaysthinks 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!

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欧 美 文 学

----《1984》读后感

《1984》是我很早就听说过的一部作品，很高兴能够在王老师的欧美文学课上再去认识这样一部带有反乌托邦色彩的政治预言小说。两周的的枕边时间带着《1984》的深深思考而入睡，作者奥威尔突出对现实的关注,用真实的笔触揭发乌托邦与现实的矛盾,让我们了解极权主义的危害和对乌托邦思想的反思。这部作品不单单是文学上的闪光点，更像是西方政治史中的一道闪电，惊醒沉睡的世人，也震惊着半个多世纪后的我们。

Part1认识奥威尔，其人、其事、其书

本书的作者乔治奥威尔，是一名英国记者、小说家、散文家和评论家，由于童年耳闻目睹了殖民者与被殖民者之间尖锐的冲突，他便十分同情悲惨的印度人民，这无疑为他日后的创作奠定了了一些思想基础。在著书的过程中，可以发现 作者始终以敏锐的洞察力和犀利的文笔审视和记录着他所生活的那个时代，作出了许多超越时代的预言，被称为 “一代人的冷峻良知”。在奥威尔眼里，语言是掩盖真实的幕布，粉饰现实的工具，蛊惑民心的艺术。他坚信，“在一个语言堕落的时代，作家必须保持自己的独立性，在抵抗暴力和承担苦难的意义上做一个永远的抗议者。” 《1984》则是他的最知名的代表作之一。

作为“反乌托邦三部曲”其一的作品，作者先是描绘了一个在极权专制的、令人窒息的社会形态下的一个小人物的点滴生活琐事，从而折射出他所处的整个时代大背景，以“以小见大”的写法，构思巧妙，着实引人深思。《一九八四》中，他以先知般冷峻的笔调勾画出人类阴暗的未来，击破了乌托邦一派的幻想，令读者心中震颤。而悲喜剧巧妙地融为一体的手法，使作品具有极大的张力。

Part2 关于《1984》的内容解读

《1984》以社会主义革命胜利后的社会主义社会为原型，构造了一幅人民生活在集权之下，却浑然不知的的行尸走肉般的生活。在这本书中，世界被三大国分割——大洋国，欧亚国和东亚国。三个国家战争不断，为了确立自己的地位，每个国家都采取集权统治的方式，确保社会的稳定与和谐。温斯顿史密斯，书中的主人公就生活在这样的国家之一，大洋国中。一开始我们的主人公是一个忠于国家，忠于政府的优秀人民，他在政府的真理部工作，政府还有其他三个部门，和平部，富裕部和友爱部。温斯顿的主要工作就是篡改历史，抹杀一切不利于忠于国家，忠于党的言论与历史。我相信他一直坚信着自己的政党，是正义的，是为了人民的幸福的，是为了使国家更加强大富裕而存在的。但是，当我读着读着，发觉这个国家的政权越来越腐朽，对人民的自由越来越束缚，甚至不能有任何反动言论时，就连在梦话中说出的反党言论都会被自己的儿女告发，拥有新思想就会被抹杀时，我只能说这个国家已经腐朽到极致，压抑人性到极致，让人失望到极致，已经没有存在的必要了。

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Man of the Moment

While reading to the end of the play, I felt relieved somehow. It might because Vic Parks finally got punished, and what he had done eventually cost him his life. From every word he spoke, we can see what a dad person he was, especially in contrast with Douglas Beechey. Seventeen years ago, Vic was a robber, and Douglas was the fighter in the bank raid against Vic. However, today Vic has become a big shot on TV. He was loved by so many people who tend to forget his past. However, Douglas was only remembered as a hero, and people seemed to forget his past, too.

In the play, we can find so many sharp contrasts between Vic and Douglas. They are different in so many aspects, such as their past experience, current situation, and character which is the most important. Douglas is a man of righteousness, bravery, and kindness. He never gave up stopping Vic from tormenting and teasing Sharon. He always kept mild and modest, and never looked down upon anyone even though he was once respected as a hero in the robbery. What is the most important is that he is always ready to fight against evils. At the end of the story, he just rushed to Vic and caught Vic in the chest. His response remained the same as 17 years ago. Let’s see what Vic had done. 17 years ago, he was a robber. Now he became famous and rich, but he kept laughing at Sharon and did nothing to stop her from drowning herself. He was the same as 17years ago. The difference is that he enjoyed people’s love and respect.

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A Book Report of 1984

Have you ever wondered what feeling you would have if you were living in a society full of totalitarianism? How many days could you bear if your life was under pervasive government surveillance and incessant public mind control? Day or days? George Orwell dramatizes such a situation in 1984, which was first published in 1949 and then becomes one of the most famous dystopian novels in the world. The story is about a society ruled by the dictatorship of the Party. It is a totalitarian government, not only controlling the actions of people but also their minds. Every home has a telescreen, a most important propaganda machine of the Party. It cannot be turned off and continuously plays patriotic songs and news. Moreover, it can also transmit images and voices from one's home to the Thought Police. It is a time when man has no rights to speak and no freedom to do or even to think anything he likes. Big Brother is watching you! He is everywhere at all times.

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1203 何紫玉

I bought 1984 in the winter holiday. But I dumped it after finishing the first volume, because it is too depressing. When I read it, I always felt a lump in my throat, and my heartbeats were quickened due to the anger.

Human beings are degraded into machines serving the Party. Tele-screens are installed everywhere to watch behaviors of people so that any signs of violation of rules of the Party can be captured by the thought police who then sent the person into prison; There is no love between people, even family members: marriages are aimed at begetting children for the service of the Party and children will prosecute their parents if they think them as betrayers of the Party; Fact and truth can be distorted by rewriting records, files and books afterwards in to accord with whatever the Party want people to remember. What horrified me most is the creation of Newspeak, a simplified language to narrow the range and depth of people’s thought in the long run. It secures the tyranny of the Party fundamentally, for no one will be able to “think” and fight against the Party.

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