1984 Book Review Essay

1984 clas-sic: 1. a work of art of recognised and established value. Many things could be considered classics. Mona Lisa by Da Vinci, Odyssey by Homer, and 1984, a novel by George Orwell. Nineteen Eighty-Four, as it's sometimes written, was published in 1949 and since then has become an epitome of dystopian novels. It introduces many ideas in government that we could one day advance to, and they don't exactly portray freedom. Some of these political beliefs could one day overtake our own government. I consider it a classic because of that, the fact that we can relate to it. They story has numerous themes that we can learn from and countless other circumstances from which we should heed a warning. Psychological manipulation is a common occurrence

The Party smothers the communities with the idea that love does not exist towards anyone but The Party and their leader, Big Brother. In this nation sex is viewed upon as a ‘duty to The Party’, a way to keep the population going. There is no pleasure taken in it as it instilled during childhood not to. "What was more important was that sexual privation induced hysteria, which was desirable because it could be transformed into war fever and leader worship." (Orwell, 2.3) Love between spouses and families is also prohibited, you raise the child to love Big Brother. A man and a woman in society must have the marriage either arranged or approved. They never fall in love as they cannot, The Party assigns the life partners only for the sole purpose of procreation and many times the married couple grows apart if there are no children and may never speak again. We can see examples of this happening in our world concerning love. About forty to fifty percent of married couples in the United States eventually divorce. Some children must witness their parents go through more than one. One in ten children of divorce witness three or more. Many children only grow up with one parent because of marital divorce, forty percent growing up today are being raised without a father. So where is the love in America? Certainly not to be found in