#nineteen eighty four

[canisthelupus]

" ... If he could have moved he would have stretched out a hand and laid it on O'Brien's arm. He had never loved him so deeply as at this moment, and not merely because he had stopped the pain. ... Perhaps one did not want to be loved, so much as to be understood. ..."

1984, pg. 330

[thoughtportal]

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

"Nineteen Eighty-Four was not supposed to be an instruction manual."

Yet so much Orwell's writings ring true today. Big Brother Watch is determined to make Nineteen Eighty-Four fiction again.

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

On the edge of tears listening to 1984 by George Orwell (this is my first time reading it) and hearing the words “By 2050, earlier, probably, all real knowledge of oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron. They’ll exist only in newspeak versions; not merely changed into something different, but actually changed into something contradictory of what they used to be” whilst living in a world where people are using AI to summarise books into paragraphs to read them.

[hauntingfizz]

she 19 on my 80 til i 4

[ancient4liens]

1984 FANART WE ARE SO BACK

[kald-dal-art]

The flat was seven flights up, and Winston, who was thirty-nine and had a varicose ulcer above his right ankle, went slowly, resting several times on the way.

On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU the caption beneath it ran.

George Orwell, 1984

Comic adaptation of 1984 done for school work, more fun than expected

[odinsblog]

[castletemprwine]

Severance (S2 E6) // Nineteen Eighty-Four (Pt1 Ch5), George Orwell

[athinellis]

The tragedy in 1984 is that they do not actually kill the protagonist in the end but they kill him as an individual. And the final step to do so is not by destroying something directly related to himself but by destroying his feelings for another person. The final step to destroy a human being is to destroy their love.

[tenmillionthfirefly]

I forgot how much The LEGO Movie was inspired by 1984. I'm rewatching it and picking up stuff I never did before. All down to

[jellyf1zh]

HELLO !!!

I wanna apologise for not posting for SO very long . I just haven’t had that creative spark of late , but it’s BACK !!

Here’s a little drawing of Winston i did in my school book today as an apology … love u all ! Big sorry for the long wait nonetheless .. (ノ_<。)

( .. It’s so weird looking back at my old drawings of winston .. i can’t seem to replicate the style i did but at the same time , i feel like im drawing better and worse than i did before at the same time ?? guess i’ll have to draw more to make it an accurate test , haha !! )

[super-oddity]

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.

1984 by George Orwell. published 1949.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Community Notes to the rescue.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

“To die hating them: that would be freedom”

This book. This book.

[httpschrys]

“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”