The Three-Year Plan mentioned in the novel is principally similar to Stalin’s Five-year Plans, which was a process of increasing industrial production. However, it is doubtful if they actually ever expanded production. Giving a false sense of increasing the quality of life by announcing increasing the ration of food or certain items when they were actually decreased, they kept the population satisfied and oblivious to that and of course, celebrating the event. In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called the Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Then again the ccp& the North Korean regime are still a thing, perfectly embodying the Orwellian themes of doublespeak, doublethink and 'Big Brother is always watching'. Which comprises of a fifth of the world populace under some totalitarian regime, so I suppose there is still ways for us to go.

Anyway, it’s a very recent book (published first in Brasil in 2020 and then in the UK and USA in 2021, so I suppose people will start talking about it soon). I very am glad I discovered it among the first readers. After being deprived of all his morality by betraying Julia, in the very last chapter, Winston is totally surrendered to the party, losing his ability to love and his faith in his own humanity. He slips his days away by sitting in the Chestnut Tree Cafe, where political criminals gather and wait for their execution. He is psychologically broken, so he finally starts to think in Newspeak. He doesn’t feel the same towards himself or Julia anymore; nor does she. Winston whispers he loves big brother. And that, is the last state of self-regulating. He ceases to be an individual and becomes part of the collective mass of the cult, being proof of true power is power over human beings, over the body, but above all, over the mind —to the point that you believe, with your whole heart, that two plus two makes five.This is not “an adaptation” or “re-interpretation” or some other unorthodox representation of the classical Orwell’s book. It’s more or less Orwell’s book itself, only in a graphic form. The illustrator (a Brasilian artist Fido Nesti) made a drawing of everything that can be drawn (rather than described with words) but left almost everything else from the original novel. Some editorial changes and corrections, if any, are very slight, and I personally had an impression that this book contains about 80% of the original text word by word or very close to it. So it was like a re-reading of the original Orwell’s book, only now we also have a very interesting visual representation of the described events and just a cool design of graphic novel art. It's the 75th year of Independence for the world's largest democracy 'Happy Independence Day'; and Ironically I'm reading the graphical adaptation of 1984. The titular year has come and gone, and the world is moving towards more freedoms & progress. But in some ways you could say we have less freedom & progress. We are seemingly headed towards an amalgamation of 1984 7 Aldous Huxley's Brave New World; with some Fahrenheit 451 added to the mix. One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984.

I was very happy to get acquainted with this very interesting artistic representation of the classical book and simultaneously refresh my memory about the original text (because, as I said, it is repeated in this book almost word by word to a large extent).About the Book One of the most influential books of the twentieth century gets the graphic treatment in this first-ever adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. In 1984, George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece, the world has been split up into three super-states: Seems like Orwell himself was frightened by the ending his novel had, worrying for posterity and warning them to not pass by easily. Winston and Julia are taken to the Ministry of Love, where prisoners are shown begging not to be sent to Room 101, creating suspense about what could possibly happen in it, before Winston is called up and discovers that O’Brien was a faithful member of the Party all along. Through psychological intimidation and physical torture, O’Brien breaks Winston’s will until he cannot answer for certain whether two plus two makes four or five. He concedes that two and two might sometimes make five in certain philosophical or theoretical concepts. Then finally he gives in to accept that the answer to two plus two is whatever the Party says it is.

Onto the book itself; 1984 is written to be dreary, depressing and mind numbing read, by design. Life under the watchful eyes of Big Brother is not a pleasant thing. It's a world of war, scarcity, lies, deceit where every aspect of life of controlled. Even the few scant inches of space inside your noggin is not free from interference from the man. In a world where emotions are limited, discouraged, and even eliminated, the note changes everything for Winston, and ultimately leads him down a wonderful, but ultimately dark and devastating path...

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The moral to be drawn from this dangerous nightmare situation is a simple one. Don’t let it happen. It depends on you.” I read 1984, the original George Orwell novel, twice: once in 2010 and again in 2017 as we were preparing to film our Literary Gladiators discussion about it during our 6th season. Charlie brought the graphic novel to my attention and nominated it for our channel's Roundtable Read. It won the main vote and became the graphic text that we would read and either review or discuss. Here is my written review, where as the video review will be released with the other contributors. Hacía tiempo que había leído esta distopía, con unos veintipocos años, junto a la de Aldous Huxley, "Un mundo feliz". Oceania: Completed by the absorption of the British Empire by the United States of America. Comprised of the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa.