Video SparkNotes: Orwell's 1984 Summary

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  • Check out George Orwell's 1984 Video SparkNote: Quick and easy 1984 synopsis, analysis, and discussion of major characters and themes in the novel. For more 1984 resources, go to www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984.

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  • @agentfungus9742
    @agentfungus9742 9 років тому +6264

    Forgot to mention Winston's and Julia's secret hideaway room, where they thought they were safe and were able to act like "normal" people. They did not realize this room was a set up until the telescreen behind a quaint painting spoke up just before the thought police burst into the room. Winston and Julia had been recorded the entire time they thought they had privacy. So sad.

    • @ESport211
      @ESport211 9 років тому +93

      Wasn't Mr.Charrington O'Brien himself?

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 9 років тому +142

      Benson Saavedra : Yes! I had forgotten that part. I've met a few Charringtons during my lifetime. Seems like the career of being a politician attracts those types.

    • @adewunmiization
      @adewunmiization 9 років тому +19

      Benson I thought I was the only one who had that idea! Lol

    • @SilentOneLove
      @SilentOneLove 9 років тому +143

      Benson Saavedra it wasnt obrien just a member of the thought police

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 9 років тому +17

      SilentOneLove : Oh darn. You got me thinking. Now I'll have to reread the book.

  • @craigoutdoors30
    @craigoutdoors30 3 роки тому +2140

    "Don't let it happen, it depends on you.'
    - Orwell

    • @ethanpappas2502
      @ethanpappas2502 3 роки тому +72

      Sadly, it appears the world is allowing it to happen.

    • @ΕλένηΠλωμαρίτου
      @ΕλένηΠλωμαρίτου 3 роки тому +13

      Δυστυχώς....

    • @charminganarchist
      @charminganarchist 3 роки тому +3

      As long as the sheeple believe they were George Orwell's intended audience, the bad guys will continue to win.

    • @jonettej2641
      @jonettej2641 3 роки тому +9

      Never give in

    • @opst1704
      @opst1704 3 роки тому

      it's ironic, look at this comment section. Everybody is pretending to be smart, and different than those so-called sheep. 1000 useless comments, probably working on some useless job.
      Edit : 7000 useless comments

  • @raypennington5012
    @raypennington5012 4 роки тому +6983

    It wasn't just a novel.
    It was a "Warning !!!"

    • @panismith1544
      @panismith1544 4 роки тому +66

      Be warned

    • @MB-rg2jm
      @MB-rg2jm 4 роки тому +111

      Yes and an indoctrination Orwell was from a secret society and had knowledge of the plan

    • @stevengreen9536
      @stevengreen9536 4 роки тому +91

      All dystopian novels are.Unfortunately it would appear only a few people are listening.😐

    • @MB-rg2jm
      @MB-rg2jm 4 роки тому +35

      @@stevengreen9536 Ready Player One was a major book and movie of recent times. That was Masonic and Satanic throughout.

    • @stevengreen9536
      @stevengreen9536 4 роки тому +20

      @@MB-rg2jm I have not gotten to see it yet but it would not surprise me.Alot of things have such symbology.The nation's capitol is filled with goddess statues.Their is strong evidence it was built using sacred geometry.

  • @MorrisseysMonkey
    @MorrisseysMonkey 2 роки тому +627

    “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984

    • @williamhosford2796
      @williamhosford2796 Рік тому +2

      For ever and ever...

    • @sl1nkz818
      @sl1nkz818 Рік тому +8

      Foot fetish mofos: Just how I like it

    • @GimOA
      @GimOA Рік тому +1

      ​@@sl1nkz818except it's a thick army boots 😂

    • @smtandearthboundsuck8400
      @smtandearthboundsuck8400 Рік тому +5

      That boot is NATO

    • @SI0AX
      @SI0AX 7 місяців тому

      ​@@GimOAThere is a fetish for any kind of shoes, though the shoes is more of a degrading kink.

  • @rahdiajackson3071
    @rahdiajackson3071 4 роки тому +4733

    This video is 10 years old and was suggested to me today. The odd thing is, I’m currently reading 1984. Big Brother is most certainly watching. Thought police are on the way. Phones are the telescreen.

    • @justinkennedy2128
      @justinkennedy2128 4 роки тому +76

      MonaLisa Raye welcome to the real world

    • @queenstarsophia1536
      @queenstarsophia1536 4 роки тому +37

      It was a suggested video for me today 🙄🙄😳😳

    • @vijayantraj763
      @vijayantraj763 4 роки тому +126

      algorithms are thought police.
      that's how this video popped for you.

    • @vitalisierend
      @vitalisierend 4 роки тому +45

      This video pops up on notification when I ordered 1984 on eBay , wtf

    • @rahdiajackson3071
      @rahdiajackson3071 4 роки тому +24

      Vijayant Raj how would an algorithm know about a physical book I’m reading though.? I’m not trying to go down the rabbit hole here, just food for thought.

  • @libertiesbreathe5014
    @libertiesbreathe5014 4 роки тому +374

    When you're a kid stuff like monsters ghosts and bugs would scare you. When you're an Adult. The evil inside peoples hearts. The concept of a dystopian world such as this. Essentially not being a human being anymore. That is more ftightening than any monster ghost or creepy crawly any day

    • @raymondnkamugisha8887
      @raymondnkamugisha8887 4 роки тому +9

      How about the concept of , Super Humans ( genetically engineered/ or even cloned) , living in the same community/Society. Beings from the Beyond, with super Intelligence ( A.I) being / taking charge of your day today affairs( politics, economics, civics etc).

    • @XGaming1
      @XGaming1 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah if makes you love bugs.

    • @Tempusverum
      @Tempusverum 4 роки тому

      Raymond N Kamugisha “Super Humans”? If you find them, please show me. They would stand out like a sore thumb among the masses of rubes.

    • @zeroremnant4477
      @zeroremnant4477 2 роки тому +3

      Reality is scarier than Fiction.

    • @logicalchaos9008
      @logicalchaos9008 2 роки тому

      ]⁰

  • @Geodendronitrian
    @Geodendronitrian 8 років тому +666

    I read this book, it's scary and sad.

    • @Tombee2
      @Tombee2 6 років тому +8

      Hoak most distopias are...

    • @bxsed
      @bxsed 5 років тому +25

      And reality is actually no further from that fiction.

    • @summermccann8283
      @summermccann8283 4 роки тому

      Julia Hoover wait what.... EXPLAIN TO ME i don’t understand

    • @Tiffany-ov2jf
      @Tiffany-ov2jf 4 роки тому

      @@g_g6729 um mind explaining?

    • @cocotaveras8975
      @cocotaveras8975 4 роки тому

      Indeed! It honestly terrified me!

  • @franzhaas3712
    @franzhaas3712 3 роки тому +369

    One of the most Important books on the planet everyone should read it.

    • @erincaitlin1655
      @erincaitlin1655 3 роки тому +19

      It should be mandatory reading in high schools when adolescents are forming a social/ political ideology.

    • @hillby170
      @hillby170 2 роки тому +3

      bloody well said our kid

    • @ISCARI0T
      @ISCARI0T 2 роки тому

      Nah it’s terrible. Just read Isaif by ted Kaczynski

    • @ozymandiasultor9480
      @ozymandiasultor9480 Рік тому

      @@ISCARI0T Ted Kaczynski was a lunatic and terrorist. You compare a masterpiece of literature with the ramblings of one butthurt semi-mad incel who wanted to blow up the whole world.

    • @ISCARI0T
      @ISCARI0T Рік тому

      @@ozymandiasultor9480 he was not an incel, the incel movement didnt even exit in his active years. also his doings were never motivated by a sentiment of hate against women. w/e orwell is a racist and 1984 is and will be forever a terrible piece of trash.

  • @whitexchina
    @whitexchina 3 роки тому +1998

    There are a lot of people today, who don't know that this was a warning, not a handbook.

    • @jebidiahnewkedkracker1025
      @jebidiahnewkedkracker1025 3 роки тому +11

      OK, but "The Prince" by Machiavelli was THAT just a warning too??
      It doesn't matter--if one sees this book as "a handbook", perhaps that should be a warning?

    • @hamishwhitehenderson5197
      @hamishwhitehenderson5197 3 роки тому +10

      @wolemai here is great example. I wonder the last time student protesters rounded up some spectator readers and sent them the Ministry of Love. there isn't one- and saying that there is is an insult to all the millions killed or imprisoned by the nazis, the soviets, the Chinese and Franco's Spain.

    • @WBKimmons
      @WBKimmons 3 роки тому +8

      @@hamishwhitehenderson5197 the language games and censorship are bad enough

    • @bronwyncate3854
      @bronwyncate3854 3 роки тому +7

      @wolemai yeah and they keep saying we have to use the pronoun 'they' for singular people! what kind of world has this become? wow i am just shocked and saddened by this horrible decline in our government since biden was "elected". I cant even celebrate fathers day with my white, conservative, loving, racist dad anymore because the transgenders got to it! what a sad world we live in.

    • @BraveCat9927
      @BraveCat9927 3 роки тому +2

      this is basically north korea except instead of torture its just death. and globally theres a softer form of this with its foot in the door and ready to go further.

  • @thetake-geopolitics4961
    @thetake-geopolitics4961 3 роки тому +980

    "The good message is that the government has to try really hard to truly get into Winston's head" wow, such an encouraging message. This book is so fucking scary because it's so true

    • @whitemale7736
      @whitemale7736 2 роки тому +48

      The bad message is that they succeded and just moves on afterwards.
      It is simply horrifying and it is coming true.

    • @sumthingwickedly
      @sumthingwickedly 2 роки тому +12

      I read it recently and genuinely felt cold icy fingers of doom especially the making you believe what you know not to be real and adopt the language which smacks of all this pronoun gibberish

    • @lucassimoes4082
      @lucassimoes4082 2 роки тому +1

      Really my friend, great ✊

    • @christiewright1268
      @christiewright1268 2 роки тому

      Did you know they have tuning forks and they control our thoughts are blood everything you're already doing it look it up

    • @pualmardon2079
      @pualmardon2079 2 роки тому

      Yep .

  • @olivierrice6044
    @olivierrice6044 2 роки тому +48

    It's honestly terrifying how much of this is actually happening in differnet ways, from targeted ads of things you were searching or even just chatting about, to totalitarian governments leading their countries completely free to do whatever they like. A novel truly ahead of it's time

    • @michelledravis68
      @michelledravis68 4 місяці тому

      Or seeing Ads about stuff you only THOUGHT about..never said out loud...how coincidently often does that happen ? Makes me sorta wonder what was in those manditory Vax's?

  • @swan1471
    @swan1471 3 роки тому +1522

    ‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’
    World Economic Forum

    • @natureclips5849
      @natureclips5849 3 роки тому +2

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    • @Odo-so8pj
      @Odo-so8pj 3 роки тому +50

      @@flennboyd6413 end freedom of every kind.

    • @cecilitaH
      @cecilitaH 3 роки тому +14

      @@flennboyd6413 wake up bro!

    • @edithnogueira7899
      @edithnogueira7899 3 роки тому +4

      @@flennboyd6413 their agenda is 1984.

    • @Judge_Magister
      @Judge_Magister 3 роки тому +10

      More accurately, Brave new world by Aldous Huxley.

  • @SuperStargazer666
    @SuperStargazer666 4 роки тому +794

    In the end they got him to voluntarily love Big Brother (or at least to think he did). Such a chilling tale, I was hoping for mass rebellion but I got solitary defeat.

    • @gyro6202
      @gyro6202 3 роки тому +8

      Yes..

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +21

      He also kind of likes it because he feels like he's not going insane anymore

    • @ReadingComprehension8X
      @ReadingComprehension8X 3 роки тому +32

      @@vintheguy he is though , just content inside of the insanity

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +4

      @@ReadingComprehension8X
      I guess?
      Before he knew that 2 + 2 = 4 is wrong but he had go about his life saying it is
      Now he can let go of all the tension of "what if I am actually wrong?" Or any of that other stuff and go " 2 = 4 is my fucking jam"
      And also he's not being hunter by angsoc or whatever it was called anymore

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +3

      @@ReadingComprehension8X
      Oh and also he feels as though he will eventually have his thought crime thoughts return and he'll probably be shot then but for now he's actually happy for once

  • @EmporerOfMankind40k
    @EmporerOfMankind40k 8 років тому +3131

    This was supposed to be a warning! Not a Manual!

  • @charleslaurent9781
    @charleslaurent9781 2 роки тому +181

    This video is absolute gold. I love the way Goerge Orwell tries to warn people about totalitarianism. This book is absolutely amazing and make us realize how easy society can change, and how easy they can put pressure on you to make absolutely everything they want you to do. An amazing cautionnary tale, WW2 was probably the worst experience people had to go through with propaganda, brainwashing, etc. and George Orwell materialized it perfectly in hiqs book.

    • @mooreandless
      @mooreandless Рік тому

      The cautionary tale would never be read, nor would it be understood, by extremist Magats in the US.
      Today, a sketch of their idol defendant trump, sitting in court beside a Jesus figure, sums it up.
      People allow themselves to be brainwashed.

    • @iac92
      @iac92 Рік тому +2

      At the same time decreasing the readers' IQ

  • @Jaqvander
    @Jaqvander 4 роки тому +2316

    The worst is: people are doing it to themselves.

    • @kimosabbe50
      @kimosabbe50 4 роки тому +41

      Exactly.

    • @Marginal391
      @Marginal391 4 роки тому +43

      Slaves.

    • @Jaqvander
      @Jaqvander 4 роки тому +95

      Corporations, schools, marketing, parents, social media; all telling you you need money, status and looks to be happy.
      Then, these became the standards we have started to judge ourselves and eachother to.
      Leading our lives accordingly.. making choices not based on what you _love_ , but on fear, on what you believe you _need_ to do in order to achieve happiness and avoid what you've now learned to fear.
      Deciding on a career that gives you enough money to do what you _believe_ will make your happy .. Rather than dare to just be _you_ and do whatever you genuinely feel like doing.
      We think we're free, but the reality is that a few universally adopted, empty beliefs, are controlling our every thought, emotion, and action.

    • @AnnaLVajda
      @AnnaLVajda 4 роки тому +4

      They have a choice? No.

    • @Jaqvander
      @Jaqvander 4 роки тому +4

      @@AnnaLVajda Yes. Why do you think they have no choice?

  • @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF
    @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF 8 років тому +775

    Didn't get to read it in school but it's definitely a book everyone should read.

    • @ryangis431
      @ryangis431 8 років тому +3

      I bet it's probably a good book (I'm only 40 pages in), but right now I'm laughing at your statement.

    • @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF
      @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF 8 років тому +9

      whats so funny

    • @ryangis431
      @ryangis431 8 років тому +6

      OMFGLOLROTFLWTF "but it's definitely a book everyone should read."
      I found it funny because its not necessarily true (for me). It's like saying everyone should watch paint dry.

    • @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF
      @OMFGLOLROTFLWTF 8 років тому +44

      Arno Victor Dorian haha you find it boring? Are you reading it for school?
      It's a book that hones in on population control, propoganda, etc. that i feel like is very important because it's happening in this very world that we live in. Maybe not in as extreme measures but there is a possibility of getting there and nowadays people don't ever stop and really think about things. This is a very thought-provoking book.

    • @ryangis431
      @ryangis431 8 років тому

      OMFGLOLROTFLWTF Yeah.

  • @mbear8832
    @mbear8832 4 роки тому +322

    Studied1984 in high school in the 80's. It left me with a eerie impression and sick to my gut.
    To this day never forgotten and now its 2020 and I have that same feeling.

    • @andria8279
      @andria8279 4 роки тому +4

      queenofcups I don’t know why but I feel like I don’t have a future anymore. Every time I think about 2021 I instantly start to feel paranoid and anxious.

    • @bellaklein8692
      @bellaklein8692 3 роки тому +2

      @@andria8279 same and like it's so weird because i recently fond out that my little cousin is gonna be graduating in 2028. 2028??? like what i feel like the world will literally be over by then. im only 15 but the 2010s were so carefree and as soon as 2020 came it feels different and weird

    • @sickbro5509
      @sickbro5509 3 роки тому +5

      @@bellaklein8692 I know exactly how you feel, I'm so fucking scared of what's gonna happen to the world in 10 years, just look around you, do some research (not on google) about covid, the vaccines and all the shit that has been indoctrinated to you since you were born, question the media and everything you see, ask yourself why things are the way they are, and then, you'll truly be scared of what's to come

    • @patriciamharris5664
      @patriciamharris5664 3 роки тому

      @@sickbro5509🙏

    • @antseanbheanbocht4993
      @antseanbheanbocht4993 2 роки тому +1

      @@andria8279 You shouldn't think so for ahead, put plans in place but live in the now. Someone said to me don't look to far into the future it will give you anxiety nor too far into the past you'll become melancholy, enjoy today.

  • @zelde_
    @zelde_ 8 років тому +1491

    Big Brother kinda looks like my dad.

  • @kimonokat1928
    @kimonokat1928 4 роки тому +320

    This was one of the most depressing novels I have ever read, it broke my heart when they broke Winston😢

    • @mbear8832
      @mbear8832 4 роки тому +7

      I feel the same

    • @kimonokat1928
      @kimonokat1928 4 роки тому

      @Guerilla PSYOPS - Who would title their novel with that? Lol

    • @terencehutton3801
      @terencehutton3801 4 роки тому +7

      Yep it was heartbreaking to see him in the bar/cafe

    • @bigwheelfromspidamahn1037
      @bigwheelfromspidamahn1037 4 роки тому +14

      In the book he actually died as well.
      He pleads for execution, and in the trip to the room where they will put the long awaited bullet into his brain, he looks into a poster of big brother and loved him

    • @johnnybgood2887
      @johnnybgood2887 2 роки тому +1

      @@bigwheelfromspidamahn1037 Is the book really worth reading ?

  • @olimurray4058
    @olimurray4058 4 роки тому +385

    No one has control over us. We give it to them.

    • @kaloyanmanchev6613
      @kaloyanmanchev6613 3 роки тому +3

      Well said

    • @themarriedcouple9924
      @themarriedcouple9924 3 роки тому +26

      Very true. However, once brainwashing and mind control have crept their way in, even the strong stop fighting back. That is the entire agenda.

    • @t.kahraba763
      @t.kahraba763 3 роки тому +6

      It depends on the country
      Western countries have it much better then some other shady parts of the world
      I could be imprisoned, tortured and possibly executed over a silly opinion in my country which is supposedly the most _democratic_ in the region and its a norm for us here, we all know it and consider it normal because we were born into it and don't know better

    • @maddealer8680
      @maddealer8680 3 роки тому

      @Mr Sloth cause people are too stupid to think for themselves thats why

    • @phantompunchmotorizedbikes1624
      @phantompunchmotorizedbikes1624 3 роки тому +1

      @@maddealer8680 there taught not to think for themselves. Starts in kindergarten

  • @rosapayne5660
    @rosapayne5660 2 роки тому +62

    The sad thing, with Winston being broken, is that he really doesn't know better. O'Brien was able to break him because Winston trusted him and believed O'Brien had his best interests in mind. Because of O'Brien, everything he taught Winston became absolute truth to him.

  • @wadayaduin5517
    @wadayaduin5517 4 роки тому +2381

    1984, published 1948, a 36yr difference. 1984 to 2020’: a 36yr difference.

    • @silvergirl7810
      @silvergirl7810 4 роки тому +180

      That is just creepy

    • @familiedejonge6813
      @familiedejonge6813 4 роки тому +52

      And........numerological it’s 4 (22 = 2+2) 1+9+4+8 or 1+9+8+4 or 2+0+2+0....

    • @watchman001
      @watchman001 4 роки тому +8

      and the noticeable reversal

    • @nackjicholson1940
      @nackjicholson1940 4 роки тому +30

      @I_G6 Strange coincidence though is it not?

    • @patri1689
      @patri1689 4 роки тому +2

      @@familiedejonge6813
      How is it it is numerologically 4?? Thanks.

  • @daaave_
    @daaave_ 5 років тому +1997

    These pictures are far too colorful. When I read the book I imagined cities being a massive swamp of greys blacks and other dark colors.

    • @dk6173
      @dk6173 4 роки тому +66

      I haven't even read the book and that's what I thought too.

    • @elzedekadonia1907
      @elzedekadonia1907 4 роки тому +2

      ????????????

    • @DebraJohnson
      @DebraJohnson 4 роки тому +93

      D. Jordan USA Me, too! I just reread it and I imagined every scene is shades of gray except when they were in the field hideout spot.

    • @mx500a4
      @mx500a4 4 роки тому +6

      I agree!

    • @mx500a4
      @mx500a4 4 роки тому +16

      @@dk6173 you gotta read it! Its a great book, the ending sends chills down your spine.

  • @wisdom-for-life
    @wisdom-for-life 3 роки тому +812

    Great breakdown and animations. Thanks!

    • @CatLover7112
      @CatLover7112 3 роки тому +10

      Agreed... 👍

    • @vijaynair2403
      @vijaynair2403 3 роки тому +10

      Animations? I didn’t see any animations.
      I saw some really good artwork though.

    • @cobaltbluevision
      @cobaltbluevision 3 роки тому +7

      They are illustrations not animations

    • @natureclips5849
      @natureclips5849 3 роки тому

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  • @tarajeefarnsworth8648
    @tarajeefarnsworth8648 2 роки тому +11

    My daughter's senior English class brought me here. Currently reading along with her.

  • @SirIkeMedia
    @SirIkeMedia 3 роки тому +688

    We're in it.

    • @julieborodin
      @julieborodin 3 роки тому +7

      Yes😬

    • @tailsprower1253
      @tailsprower1253 3 роки тому +33

      Moron

    • @alyssa8525
      @alyssa8525 3 роки тому +76

      ...no we’re not. Try reading the book and doing some background research on Orwell before you say some garbage like this lmfao

    • @YourPetSnake
      @YourPetSnake 3 роки тому +1

      Explain

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +41

      @@alyssa8525
      OMG IT'S 1984 BECAUSE I CAN'T SAY SLURS

  • @clumsyturtle8544
    @clumsyturtle8544 4 роки тому +1503

    No joke, recently there was a debate on twitter (because of course it's twitter) about 2 + 2 = 5. Pretty sure someone started it as a troll but it showed some people actually took it seriously and believed 2+2=5.
    It's scary to see this stuff become reality for us.

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 4 роки тому +168

      Difference between people believing that because of government propaganda and brain washing
      And people just being stupid

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 4 роки тому +8

      You are an idiot
      And arent an intellectual

    • @clumsyturtle8544
      @clumsyturtle8544 4 роки тому +56

      @@vintheguy ok.

    • @clumsyturtle8544
      @clumsyturtle8544 4 роки тому +72

      @@vintheguy Never claimed to be one but fuck you I guess?

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 4 роки тому +23

      @@clumsyturtle8544
      This statement is one that a person who thinks their smart would make
      About how "WoAH ThErE PeOPle ToDAy ArE ThAt DumB bUT NoTt mE,,, mE sMarT"

  • @fattyheadness
    @fattyheadness 4 роки тому +6143

    Only thing wrong with Orwell’s masterpiece, is he got the title wrong. Should have been called 2020.

    • @lastjedi9442
      @lastjedi9442 4 роки тому +56

      Brent DeBoer ☹️this is so sad

    • @jaimibutlergreeley3480
      @jaimibutlergreeley3480 4 роки тому +170

      1+9+8+4=22

    • @wanlitan7406
      @wanlitan7406 4 роки тому +71

      *2084

    • @cerliezio
      @cerliezio 4 роки тому +152

      It actually started in 2001. Or more precisely it started with the coup in 1963. November 22nd. 1963..

    • @fattyheadness
      @fattyheadness 4 роки тому +14

      cerliezio I think you are right.

  • @Obtaineudaimonia
    @Obtaineudaimonia 9 років тому +789

    As a fellow youtuber who creates animated book reviews, I just wanted to say that this video is great! Well done.

    • @B279
      @B279 8 років тому

      Do you have one of 1984?

    • @Obtaineudaimonia
      @Obtaineudaimonia 8 років тому +3

      I'm afraid not. I specialise in non-fiction.

    • @ChaoticMartian
      @ChaoticMartian 8 років тому +4

      +ObtainEudaimonia but this is non fiction, today's society is going to make it the earliest warning sign of what was to come.

    • @levinmoser4001
      @levinmoser4001 7 років тому +1

      ChaoticMartian 1984 isn't nonfiction.

    • @daveobz5885
      @daveobz5885 6 років тому +3

      Eudaimonia nobody cares you are a fellow youtuber

  • @deepbluesky6844
    @deepbluesky6844 Рік тому +56

    It's been a while since I read this book, but it's still an imperishable memory. At the beginning, I remember that all those grey landscapes and harsh laws made me uncomfortable ( to my mind, this must be the first step of a distopia in the sense that the main purpose of this type of literature is to enable you to put your habits and your society in question ). Then I was very surprised and impressed by the personnal developement of the main character, mainly because I didn't find him neither interresting nor brave at first. However, the author finally succeed in changing my mind and after some chapters I was just like "go boy, run for your freedom, be a rebel" :'). It also teached me that in a totalitarian regime, the little things of everyday (such as kiss the woman that you loved or read something) could became the most courageous. Obviously, the end just ruined my mood for two decades. I am still under the impression that one gives me a glimmer of hope to just extinguished it under my eyes one second later. However, isn't the reason that makes 1984 one of the best book ever written ?

  • @mechailreydon3784
    @mechailreydon3784 4 роки тому +108

    “One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    • @zholud
      @zholud 4 роки тому +1

      He rather said if we weren’t silent there wouldn’t be arrests.

    • @ivankolobov9502
      @ivankolobov9502 4 роки тому

      Ain’t a good man to quote

    • @zholud
      @zholud 4 роки тому +1

      @@ivankolobov9502 Иван, Вы наверное Широкорада перечитались. Или радио звезда слушаете ежедневно...прочли бы книгу сначала, а потом судили о человеке.

  • @barbydolly7645
    @barbydolly7645 4 роки тому +864

    Funny how UA-cam recommends this 10+ year old video during the Corona virus pandemic. 04/06/2020

    • @cerliezio
      @cerliezio 4 роки тому +49

      Good observation!!! Naturally as usual reality is always in plain sight. If your eyes are open wide to see.

    • @johnprentice1474
      @johnprentice1474 4 роки тому +51

      We're being programmed.

    • @clareb8015
      @clareb8015 4 роки тому +18

      It is on my suggested list too

    • @satelliteepitaph6220
      @satelliteepitaph6220 4 роки тому +36

      Not necessarily a bad thing because that means people have been searching/sharing it more, and not at all strange because when something is "trending" it gets moved up in feed priority.

    • @thewomble1509
      @thewomble1509 4 роки тому +16

      Yes, combined with Brave New World ! In addition, Uk Tv has shown Contagion, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later and The Road all in the last three weeks. All part of the mockery of the sheeple.............

  • @espy49
    @espy49 8 років тому +6368

    when you have to write an essay by tomorrow

    • @maggiemihaylova6354
      @maggiemihaylova6354 8 років тому +23

      Hahahahah +1

    • @armvex
      @armvex 8 років тому +83

      you plagiar... I mean research in the internet.

    • @kevinnajera1557
      @kevinnajera1557 8 років тому +34

      facts need to finish in 3 days

    • @allend807
      @allend807 7 років тому +59

      Esperanza Ochoa this is a good book, also if this is all your gonna for it, than you are supremely lazy.

    • @chownful
      @chownful 7 років тому +29

      u'll be deported anyways so it doesnt matter

  • @YoumnaBequie
    @YoumnaBequie Рік тому +6

    This video really helpes understand the meaning of 1984. I really like having animation, it allows us to be fully concentrated on the explications.

  • @brianmcmanus4286
    @brianmcmanus4286 3 роки тому +117

    I come back to this book every few years, and it blows my mind anew every time. Absolute masterpiece.

    • @MG-hg1sq
      @MG-hg1sq 3 роки тому +1

      Why ? Wht this book is about ?

    • @brianmcmanus4286
      @brianmcmanus4286 3 роки тому +7

      @@MG-hg1sq It's a prophetic and dark tale of a future society in the grip of a totalitarian regime that demands complete capitulation to it's dogma. It revolves around the experience of a man who begins to question the validity of that society, a doomed romance and the inevitable, profoundly unnerving conclusion. Required reading for American high school students and a really great read on every level. Highly recommended!

    • @MG-hg1sq
      @MG-hg1sq 3 роки тому +2

      @@brianmcmanus4286 Do you see paraleles to todays world ? Do you think, that a one world goverment is going to come ?

    • @brianmcmanus4286
      @brianmcmanus4286 3 роки тому +2

      @@MG-hg1sq Yeah. God M G, let's hope not.

    • @EIRE55
      @EIRE55 3 роки тому

      @@MG-hg1sq
      For lazy readers, here's the full audiobook..... ua-cam.com/video/CBPNrVQwqeo/v-deo.html

  • @carlosescobedo6406
    @carlosescobedo6406 4 роки тому +37

    I just finished reading the book, and MAAAANNNNNN what an ending!!!! I never read a book before specially a book with more than 100 pages. 1984 was definitely worth the time and pages it took me to read. The last page, the ending truly made me feel emotional.

  • @DrEhrfurchtgebietend
    @DrEhrfurchtgebietend 3 роки тому +869

    It's funny that they're actually starting to push the 2 + 2 = 5 thing

    • @dustdusty3947
      @dustdusty3947 3 роки тому +27

      Which makes no sense if you have two of one thing and two of another thing all together you have 4 things
      Where are they getting the extra number from?

    • @fumomofumosarum5893
      @fumomofumosarum5893 3 роки тому +55

      @@dustdusty3947 i don't think it's meant literally....
      it might be meant CRT-y tho...

    • @lucassism6726
      @lucassism6726 3 роки тому +17

      totalitarianism is when people are being stupid on the internet

    • @dingdingdingdiiiiing
      @dingdingdingdiiiiing 3 роки тому +3

      @@dustdusty3947 You sound insane and so in desperate need of therapy.

    • @toooooooooooooooooooooooooooom
      @toooooooooooooooooooooooooooom 3 роки тому +80

      Just take the vaccine so you wont get sick or infect others.... I mean... take the vaccine so you dont infect others... no... i mean... take the vaccine to get less sick.... no... i mean... take the vaccine to maybe get less sick but the booster shot will make you less sick...

  • @Marwonderful
    @Marwonderful 13 днів тому +1

    Reading this book in 2024 has the be the scariest thing I’ve ever experienced reading a book. Years later and The reality of our world is so accurately depicted in Orwell’s storytelling.

  • @Samuel_J_Russell
    @Samuel_J_Russell 4 роки тому +73

    My favourite book of all time and considering how phenomenally intelligent and astute Orwell had to be to foresee the events which I don't think anybody can deny are unfolding before our very eyes, the genius of this work will be appreciated more as time goes by.

    • @rickblessing2447
      @rickblessing2447 3 роки тому +8

      As time goes by, the book very well may be "taken off the shelves".

    • @Samuel_J_Russell
      @Samuel_J_Russell 3 роки тому +6

      @@rickblessing2447 Along with many other subversive works not consistent with the globalist, neo-liberal, Marxist agenda. My copies are going nowhere!

    • @terrybear5398
      @terrybear5398 3 роки тому +1

      I think Orwell may not have been that futuristic on his own, as he worked, or had connections with the powers that could/would facilitate these events to unfold.

  • @gutsberserker5476
    @gutsberserker5476 8 років тому +453

    Oddly enough in london, we have the most cameras in the world. And we alos have such pyramid roofs on buildings..

    • @Kissamiess
      @Kissamiess 8 років тому +55

      Airstrip One is doubleplusgood.

    • @robfaget3187
      @robfaget3187 5 років тому +20

      This is happening in both Europe and the United States right now.

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp 5 років тому +21

      Pyramids are important to Free Masons.

    • @asherdie
      @asherdie 5 років тому +1

      @@HC-cb4yp no the aren't.

    • @mudassirkhan8484
      @mudassirkhan8484 5 років тому +1

      Congrats you are being watched..

  • @helenbach1870
    @helenbach1870 4 роки тому +468

    The book is now re-titled “How to Run a Government, for Dummies.”

    • @garryallison5679
      @garryallison5679 3 роки тому +9

      You mean criminals, dont date insult us dummies. Lol

    • @qwerty23692
      @qwerty23692 3 роки тому +6

      Should read: How to run a government OF Dummies

    • @vicgogan3337
      @vicgogan3337 3 роки тому +6

      Helen...was it signed Joe Biden😜

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +3

      @@vicgogan3337
      As if trump was any better

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +2

      @Devin Blackburn
      Yeah like when he got Americans killed because he wanted to keep up the status quo and avoid the thing that all prime minister's and presidents will do anything to avoid... being the one to handle a very very bad situation
      And he he did plenty of good work! Like that time he got hundreds deported, that time he removed tons of rights that lgbt people had
      Oh and let's not forget that time on January 6-

  • @LovOmega
    @LovOmega Рік тому +6

    Really nice produced video, from the esthetic to the content. It makes you want to read the book. The way it is written seems so powerful, deep. We can feel the loneliness with quotes just as this one "“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable” - George Orwell.

  • @rickeshpatel4025
    @rickeshpatel4025 3 роки тому +58

    One of my favorite books to read growing up.
    Without truly knowing oneself the outside will always rule.

    • @paulinosamson8507
      @paulinosamson8507 3 роки тому +4

      INDEED. So many people who are asleep today are slaves to social media, to their egos and MATERIAL THINGS.

  • @giorgiofelice2928
    @giorgiofelice2928 3 роки тому +61

    While I read the book I always imagined everything being gray (buildings houses etc)

  • @GhostRangerr
    @GhostRangerr 4 роки тому +140

    This is the first time I watch Orwell's 1984, i gotta say this gave me goosebumps because many things he talked about are happening today o.0

  • @lilix7014
    @lilix7014 Рік тому +1

    Watching this video made me want to read 1984. I started reading it once but I wasn’t captivated by the beginning. This video gives a good understanding of the book and makes you want to read it to understand it more and on your own level.

  • @thomastsuihn
    @thomastsuihn 4 роки тому +520

    As a Hongkonger, I am genuinely scared by what will happen to us if our revolution fails in the end

    • @christineschmidt8400
      @christineschmidt8400 4 роки тому +14

      ,won't fail

    • @joydevsarkar4474
      @joydevsarkar4474 4 роки тому +2

      YOU HAVE TO YOUR LIFE
      FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
      ARE YOU WILLING TO DO THAT?

    • @christineschmidt8400
      @christineschmidt8400 4 роки тому +3

      @Paul zozak china has conc vamos.usa took inmigrantes in.former times.i sharply advise to line up for Freedom.

    • @UnknownUser-nz3io
      @UnknownUser-nz3io 4 роки тому +19

      If you aren't a sheep, then you will either use your superior intelligence to join the ruling class by selling your soul, or become self sufficient off grid and devote yourself to enlightenment - which is the real meaning of life anyways. Let's be honest, the dumb sheep don't deserve or even want freedom.

    • @adrienneprince4622
      @adrienneprince4622 4 роки тому +4

      Thank you to all of you, Thomas

  • @kdo-double-g4269
    @kdo-double-g4269 5 років тому +139

    Back in my day, you actually had to read the SparkNotes.

    • @spongebobsucks12
      @spongebobsucks12 4 роки тому +2

      LMAO they'll beam this shit into our kid's heads by the time were our parent's age.

    • @Markinfilm
      @Markinfilm 4 роки тому +5

      In my day you actually had to read the book.

    • @6guns431
      @6guns431 4 роки тому

      Thanks grandpa!😄

    • @Markinfilm
      @Markinfilm 4 роки тому +4

      @@6guns431 not your grandpa and not even a boomer. Just believe that reading still has a place in the world.

    • @6guns431
      @6guns431 4 роки тому +1

      Ok👍i was jj

  • @cz10506
    @cz10506 8 років тому +508

    2:53 a store is named "Old Major" after the character in Animal Farm

    • @skuba16
      @skuba16 7 років тому +2

      Not Carlie ha just noticed that too

    • @greymajickjedi
      @greymajickjedi 7 років тому +8

      Wow.
      You would be great at CinemaSins.

    • @rogue0192
      @rogue0192 7 років тому +5

      that book is better than 1984

    • @levinmoser4001
      @levinmoser4001 7 років тому +7

      Not Carlie Animal Farm was an amazing book. I first picked it in the seventh grade because we did mini research papers on 4 books for the year. We had a list of 24 to choose from and many of us thought animal farm would be an easy paper to write because of its title. Another girl and I chose Animal Farm and when we figured out we both picked it, we worked our paper together. After our presentations, the next book choices were given. Everyone chose Animal Farm. Lol

    • @yobootyhadmeded3022
      @yobootyhadmeded3022 7 років тому

      Le'Vin Moser I’m in 9th we just started it seems good so far

  • @lorin9516
    @lorin9516 Рік тому +4

    It reminded me I really liked this book because I red it when I was young, and I didn't understood the message at the time, neither the end of the story. It was blurry for me for a lot of years, but know that I am older I understand it and it confirms the bad mood I had at the end.

  • @dragondriver1007
    @dragondriver1007 4 роки тому +223

    Can you imagine if Winston LET the rats eat his face off rather than have it happen to his girlfriend? It would be the most profound, tragic and sad heroic act achieved in fiction. NO one in his right mind would be able to hold it together on reading it.

    • @zara9830
      @zara9830 3 роки тому +25

      He could've won against the Party.

    • @MsSimranP
      @MsSimranP 3 роки тому +41

      It would completely defeat the point of the book though.

    • @ReadingComprehension8X
      @ReadingComprehension8X 3 роки тому

      @@MsSimranP would it tho?

    • @MsSimranP
      @MsSimranP 3 роки тому +4

      @@ReadingComprehension8X yes it would

    • @ReadingComprehension8X
      @ReadingComprehension8X 3 роки тому

      @@MsSimranP what do you see is “the point”

  • @vulpesinculta672
    @vulpesinculta672 4 роки тому +392

    "You don't have friends, you can't date or have sex with someone you like" - yep, that's all too familiar.

    • @blackironwalterkus3851
      @blackironwalterkus3851 3 роки тому +44

      you can literally do all of those things very easily

    • @okfresh5749
      @okfresh5749 3 роки тому +5

      @@blackironwalterkus3851 fr haha

    • @yakupkozoglu7208
      @yakupkozoglu7208 3 роки тому +28

      @@blackironwalterkus3851 very easily mhmhmmmm ? I dont think it goes for everyone buddy

    • @blackironwalterkus3851
      @blackironwalterkus3851 3 роки тому +20

      @@yakupkozoglu7208 if you can’t do those things now then you definitely couldn’t do them before.

    • @dadano_lagano
      @dadano_lagano 3 роки тому +4

      Cope more

  • @JohnJones-yk5qk
    @JohnJones-yk5qk 3 роки тому +184

    No matter what ever happens again, these last two years opened my eyes to how flawed a species we are, there are many great humans but sadly we are so flawed we are destined for doom

    • @Davidjune1970
      @Davidjune1970 3 роки тому +7

      Whether you are religious or not, if you ever read genesis in the bible you would see it outline all the faults of humanity that we have repeated over and over again. Greed, murder, incest, betrayal, adultery, rape, people’s corruption …. Most would tell you not to read the bible because it’s of ancient ideas and people. But we have not evolved one damn bit and are just as they were only with digital watches and airplanes but just as flawed as ever

    • @MaliMaslacak526
      @MaliMaslacak526 3 роки тому +5

      This is EXACTLY what they want you to think. MAN UP

    • @Tanknuggets217
      @Tanknuggets217 2 роки тому +7

      Yes we humans are destined for destruction. There is only one that can save us and it is JESUS!❤✝️💕 Come to him because he loves you and wants you in paradise with him.

    • @paulrubens776
      @paulrubens776 2 роки тому +2

      if "literally 1984!!!!" was a ytb comment

    • @ameliac504
      @ameliac504 2 роки тому +5

      Accepting Jesus is the only cure

  • @bstr-ey6wl
    @bstr-ey6wl 3 роки тому +37

    my favorite part of 1984, that I rely the most on, is the description of the imperial system, and its obsession for survival. The exact description of the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry... And also the exact description of the elite of the anglo saxon countries.

    • @michaellese7822
      @michaellese7822 2 роки тому

      Obviously you're a mind controlled liberal,

    • @christianamericandominican2470
      @christianamericandominican2470 Рік тому

      Naw, it's the globalists, diversity, inclusion and climate change big corporations. They are the ones in charge. We have to believe what they tell us or else- War is peace, a man is a woman and a woman is a man, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. And there is such a thing as "a black white supremacist". 2 + 2 = 5..

    • @smtandearthboundsuck8400
      @smtandearthboundsuck8400 Рік тому +1

      Describes Amerikkka perfectly. It’s a country that relies on war and exploitation 😂. It’s a cancer.
      Can’t wait for China kick their teeth in. But they have to wait because it’s like fighting a guy with a bomb jacket : if they start losing they might go all out nuclear out of spite so they can’t let Amerikkka collapse too fast or it would get desperate.

  • @traviscutler9912
    @traviscutler9912 3 роки тому +214

    I wonder if Orwell knew that his masterpiece was going to become a "How to Book"............

    • @Odo-so8pj
      @Odo-so8pj 3 роки тому +2

      He said he could see it unfolding. He'd probably read Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Totalitarianism always goes the same way.

    • @Odo-so8pj
      @Odo-so8pj 3 роки тому

      Plus you've had it planned since at least 1969 there were books on how they would do it from that period.

    • @deplorable2767
      @deplorable2767 3 роки тому +2

      For the Democrat party

    • @traviscutler9912
      @traviscutler9912 3 роки тому +2

      @@deplorable2767 ooooooh, sick burn brah,!!! You come up with that on your own ?!?

    • @sandyk8594
      @sandyk8594 3 роки тому

      They write the scripts and use puppets to introduce them. They have been very telling of the future.

  • @SwedudeEPIC
    @SwedudeEPIC 4 роки тому +550

    It is just a matter of time before this video is censored.

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +32

      No, it is not

    • @sbeity
      @sbeity 3 роки тому +3

      why? im genuinely asking I don't know

    • @priyanshshrivastava8842
      @priyanshshrivastava8842 3 роки тому +3

      @@sbeity its a joke, contrasting between the dystopia in 1984 and our own world

    • @binroussi
      @binroussi 3 роки тому +12

      Its been up for 11 years and nothing like this is really happening. Get ur head out the dirt there are no communist politicians in America

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +6

      @@binroussi
      They would immediately get impeached and arrested if they existed
      The most "communist" or "socialist" we're ever getting is bernie

  • @mkalic9238
    @mkalic9238 4 роки тому +1378

    Reminds me of the “re-education“ camps of the uyghurs in china

    • @kasten8020
      @kasten8020 3 роки тому +53

      Yeah I thought the same, at work we also have Chinese workers at the moment (im from Germany) they, told me one woman became a child about 3 months before and must go working her in Germany, cause otherwise she get fired and won’t get any better payed job in her life, cause the governments keeps track of them. I was shocked and couldn’t believe it first but i promise you it’s real.

    • @rc....
      @rc.... 3 роки тому +30

      this is happening the whole of china not just western china

    • @justinwu7495
      @justinwu7495 3 роки тому +61

      @@rc.... as i hongkonger i can confirm that Hong Kong is slowly becoming the same as China. 7 opposition leaders are arrested today and this is basically what we see on the news everyday here now in Hong Kong. Most of those who actively participated in last year’s protests are either arrested or too afraid to speak up anymore. AND last week the government just announced a ‘reform’ of high school education that basically turns the education system into a brainwashing machine. Our city is as good as dead.

    • @wholelottared8590
      @wholelottared8590 3 роки тому +19

      @@justinwu7495 I’m sorry about what’s happening there. What I’m afraid about nowadays is what will happen to Taiwan as well.

    • @MPresheva
      @MPresheva 3 роки тому +9

      There were re-education camps even in free-liberal-socialist Yugoslavia.

  • @gottalivehappy
    @gottalivehappy 2 роки тому +4

    0:58 "The food's disgusting" that's already accurate to normal London.

  • @Bitachon
    @Bitachon 4 роки тому +1941

    *Who's watching this during Corona?*

    • @kimberlysnyder6760
      @kimberlysnyder6760 4 роки тому +10

      I am 😊

    • @nataliebarreto6732
      @nataliebarreto6732 4 роки тому +6

      Yaacov I am too

    • @maegankafka4540
      @maegankafka4540 4 роки тому +31

      I drive around without a facemask to see if a pig stops me to try to impose his tyrannical idiologies into play. So far nothing yet.

    • @darrencottam1146
      @darrencottam1146 4 роки тому +6

      Im drinking one now

    • @ingejustavanderhelm5208
      @ingejustavanderhelm5208 4 роки тому +5

      Me too. Please, will you share it on your social media? It is now so important with the social distancing & lock down policies put upon us and maybe the mandatory vaccines etc. The video is only 6.37 minutes, so people might be open to watch it. Thanks!

  • @waedjradi
    @waedjradi 6 років тому +548

    Why does Big Brother look like Pablo Escober...anyways, good book

    • @preethasuresh5253
      @preethasuresh5253 5 років тому +13

      Oshaanri its Stalin

    • @ackeeble
      @ackeeble 5 років тому +34

      Stalin was the inspiration for the Big Brother face. Mustoched men are typical of totalitarian leaders.

    • @rishabseshadri3691
      @rishabseshadri3691 5 років тому +2

      his face is crazy symmetrical lol

    • @Pfsif
      @Pfsif 5 років тому

      Dan Sevrin

    • @goodyeoman4534
      @goodyeoman4534 4 роки тому

      Corbyn...

  • @paulinecoelho6639
    @paulinecoelho6639 11 місяців тому +1

    1984 was one of my first dystopian reading, and now the genre is basically my favorite. Even though Orwell is missused in many arguments, I never stopped diffending it and even learned to use it to prove many other points. Today, I like to bring 1984 in my arguments when i talk about language, neologism and freedom of thought, how we aren't able to talk even though we have the words, and everything. Highly recommand !

  • @moazim1993
    @moazim1993 3 роки тому +12

    Dude it’s way more deep. The last scene after all that tournament he cried tears of joy for Big Brother sincerely. It was so freaking dark.

  • @Axelius69
    @Axelius69 3 роки тому +18

    I just read this the first time. It was pretty horrible how they tortured Winston in the end, and how he got some kind of stockholm syndrome for O'brien, always thinking him as an intellectual man and feeling comfort in his arms even when 5 minutes ago he was torturing him.
    In the end when they met with Julia was also very sad, two people utterly broken and unable to think independently anymore and living without proper feelings.

  • @richs7062
    @richs7062 4 роки тому +697

    Ladies and Gentlemen, this is quickly becoming our reality.

    • @whitexchina
      @whitexchina 3 роки тому +31

      It already is.

    • @vint997
      @vint997 3 роки тому +10

      @@whitexchina 1/20/21

    • @AntonyThorburn
      @AntonyThorburn 3 роки тому

      IT IS

    • @chrissibersky4617
      @chrissibersky4617 3 роки тому +3

      People has chosen it by using smart phones and credit cards.

    • @vesperin5172
      @vesperin5172 3 роки тому +28

      how the fuck is this becoming our reality. 1984 is a shitty prediction that Orwell made when nazis and communists were in power. you're wrong.

  • @skypoem5153
    @skypoem5153 2 роки тому +8

    It's remarkable, that the book fully outlines the process narcissists use on their victims. And indeed, you realize that the world we live in elects narcissists as leaders. We are brainwashed by the system itself. The system IS Big Brother. That's why no one can point fingers truly. We are eachother's Big Brother, encouraging loyalty to politeness, and censorship and agreement with "Me". Love, is fear.

  • @zaetalos2042
    @zaetalos2042 3 роки тому +107

    Starting to look like a reflection of modern day more & more.

    • @thomasmannia
      @thomasmannia 3 роки тому +1

      How so?

    • @zaetalos2042
      @zaetalos2042 3 роки тому +3

      @@thomasmannia LSS: this is why we hate big government, & lobby against it.

    • @zaetalos2042
      @zaetalos2042 3 роки тому

      @@thomasmannia sorry if it doesn't answer your question directly.

    • @sprodersprack4257
      @sprodersprack4257 2 роки тому +1

      Well, if it's supposedly happening right now, then why don't you people try and stop it while you have the chance? Like, contribute to society for once by freeing it from the "SJW shackles" or whatever you call them.

    • @zaetalos2042
      @zaetalos2042 2 роки тому

      @@sprodersprack4257 dude, it's just an observation. Calm down.

  • @ahmad1221
    @ahmad1221 4 роки тому +77

    I lived in Iraq during Saddam regimen and this exactly how he ran the country

    • @markiec8914
      @markiec8914 4 роки тому +13

      I've got bad news for you buddy....The US/Canada and Europe are steering towards this NWO totalitarianism.

    • @someoneelse.2252
      @someoneelse.2252 4 роки тому

      @@markiec8914 : Hey ahmad1221... Markie C is right.

    • @Chad-Rainis
      @Chad-Rainis 4 роки тому

      @@markiec8914 I think that, "if" the world governments are steering towards NWO dystopian regimes, it will be more like Brave New World rather than 1984.

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +1

      @@Chad-Rainis
      That isn't really possible
      If you read a brave new world you'll see that

    • @Chad-Rainis
      @Chad-Rainis 3 роки тому

      @@vintheguy well, i may be wrong. I haven't read neither of the books. And of course, the world will never be exactly like BNW or 1984. But I do believe that a more possible system, looking at the world today, would be a sort of simulated happiness like BNW, rather than obvious malevolence like 1984.

  • @justahuman-being5983
    @justahuman-being5983 9 років тому +316

    I have a feeling that our world today is becoming exactly what is like in "1984" and "Brave New World".

    • @CpttCanada
      @CpttCanada 9 років тому +13

      +Jim Le How can it be like both of them? They are pretty opposite forms of governments.

    • @James-xb1zm
      @James-xb1zm 8 років тому +4

      +Jim Le No note really. I'm gonna quote a comment I said before but it kind answers the point.
      "I see where you're coming from, but stop bitching. If you don't like captilism form a communist government or vote Corbyn's Labour. The message you sent here, on UA-cam, on your computer, in your house proves you are helping them. I hate when leftly anarchists bring up 1984 saying it's what they're doing now. Have you guys ever read the book. In their people are people are being fucking vapourised and tortured for having sex! I know they read your text messages, I know they're corrupt but just fucking accept that. It's for your own good!"

    • @natalieanimal4063
      @natalieanimal4063 6 років тому +3

      OK everyone, they are not so opposite because the two books say quite the same: an individual doesn't matter, you shouldn't be alone or love anyone, or care for anything but the community, you should never have time to do anything unrelated to it, and family shouldn't exist. And you should be oblivious to everything that's wrong. And you see, miniluv simply conditions people a little later than the Hatchery Centre - even using the same methods.
      And these books are allegories and hyperboles, they are not to be taken literally but they do accurately represent many aspects of our world. The reason why we may not notice is the fact that we here are the Proles and yes, the Epsilons. People with important functions withing the government (Alphas/Betas, the Party) have disappeared and they still do.

    • @RickardPettersson86
      @RickardPettersson86 5 років тому +3

      @@James-xb1zm Yes it can, I would argue that the "democracies" of today use more levels of abstraction and have used epi-national structured institutions, I.e. IMF, in order to control and subvert and confuse analysis and any form of accountability from these totalitarian institutions.

    • @anthonyontv
      @anthonyontv 5 років тому

      Jim Weiß oh stfu tin head

  • @Xamry
    @Xamry 2 роки тому +2

    Darn I never knew *sparknotes had a Channel this whole time! The website helped me survive English my senior year. I was so burned out.

  • @supernovamimosa
    @supernovamimosa 4 роки тому +65

    This was in everyone's recommended us UA-cam trying to tell us something

    • @db8700
      @db8700 4 роки тому +8

      UA-cam is part of this. We are Winston. They’re slowly telling us this is happening.

    • @1o1beauty
      @1o1beauty 4 роки тому +4

      Wuuuuu. Exhales hard and long
      -it was fun while it lasted, folks

    • @gottgainz6477
      @gottgainz6477 4 роки тому +3

      Nah youtube is part of big brother

    • @rivertwygzbed543
      @rivertwygzbed543 4 роки тому

      @@gottgainz6477 Big Brother wants us to fight him.

    • @inkchariot6147
      @inkchariot6147 3 роки тому

      @@rivertwygzbed543 UA-cam is building the rebellion through recommendations, and they don't even know it.

  • @lundqvjrl9359
    @lundqvjrl9359 4 роки тому +367

    "Fascism is coming in the United States most probably, but it will not come under that name" - Norman Thomas

    • @CaptZdq1
      @CaptZdq1 4 роки тому +76

      It's actually communism. The far left supports conspiracies (by denying they exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), plutocracy (by denying conspiracies exist n smearing anyone who opposes them), and totalitarianism (thru political correctness, which is cultural communism, and the anti-gun lobby, which supports the release of dangerous offenders and the dictatorial powers of judges in sentencing) and Covid-19 measures.

    • @xXWorldgamefunXx
      @xXWorldgamefunXx 4 роки тому +32

      @@CaptZdq1 George Orwell was a radical socialist.
      Your close-to-fascist views on pretty much every issue would make him your enemy..

    • @piecekeeper5317
      @piecekeeper5317 4 роки тому +50

      George Orwell believed in democracy, current "progressives" do NOT. Blue States are literally cancelling elections and pushing for bogus postal voting and "ballot harvesting".

    • @NortheastIndiaindetails
      @NortheastIndiaindetails 4 роки тому +2

      @@CaptZdq1 what

    • @johnlewis5413
      @johnlewis5413 4 роки тому +28

      @@piecekeeper5317 Orwell's political beliefs were guided by his genuine love for the working class. He worked in London the north of England and Paris doing menial jobs and he was blown away by the natural good naturedness and camaraderie of the people he worked with. He also wrote there is more intelligence and wisdom to found in a mining village pub than can be found in parliament and at the top table of any Oxbridge university. Of course with these views he would now be deemed a Nazi by the Guardian and Buzzfeed.

  • @carlgregory9776
    @carlgregory9776 3 роки тому +20

    I read this book years ago and seems more pertinent now than when Orwell wrote it then. To me it’s very prophetic about our current world with authoritarian governments and such leaders, even more so since Stalin and Hitler, etc!

  • @bluebluewhite
    @bluebluewhite Рік тому +4

    It's terrifying to think that such a work, although exceptional in itself, could become our reality in the near future ...

    • @BellaZ209
      @BellaZ209 4 місяці тому

      It already is our reality

  • @jamesmcdowell9889
    @jamesmcdowell9889 4 роки тому +161

    Just re-read it. The first time was in high school... when it was fiction.

    • @TheConshuscriterion
      @TheConshuscriterion 4 роки тому +14

      James McDowell oh it wasn’t fiction! It was a glimpse into our present day!!

    • @vintheguy
      @vintheguy 3 роки тому +2

      @@TheConshuscriterion
      No it's still mostly fiction in the west

    • @Lucke189
      @Lucke189 3 роки тому +5

      Exactly, everyone is saying we're living this, but no one can explain in what way lol.

    • @MOo8996cz
      @MOo8996cz 3 роки тому

      @Fact Checkers Sure. If you believe every shitty rumour you find on the internet, then you do. Oh and dont forget that the Earth is flat

    • @garryallison5679
      @garryallison5679 3 роки тому +1

      Love the fiction comment. Lol

  • @mintymilkk
    @mintymilkk 11 років тому +29

    Wish this was the book we'd done for literature. To Kill A Mockingbird is still pretty good but this just seems a much more powerful work of writing

    • @EdmontonRails
      @EdmontonRails 5 років тому +1

      To kill a mockingbird is a steaming pile of shit rolled up and set aflame

    • @elguapo42
      @elguapo42 5 років тому

      To Kill a Mockingbird is actually just an extremely lucky book to be published when it was and benefited tremendously from being one of the first mass produced paper back books. Its popularity has more to do with its convenience than it does its literature.

  • @miavalour1376
    @miavalour1376 2 роки тому +4

    I had to work on this video in progress and I confess that I would love to read this book now. The characters look interesting, the author's point of view could also be compared to our current vision... good things to compel me to read it.

  • @duckyleehazards7737
    @duckyleehazards7737 4 роки тому +34

    It's been awhile since i read this book. I don't remember the Government ever being called Communist or any specific form of government. I always thought it was a warning of what could happen in any country

    • @dertree4187
      @dertree4187 4 роки тому +4

      You know, many of Orwell's books have been used as propaganda, for example: Animal Farm.

    • @tesla-v2681
      @tesla-v2681 3 роки тому +5

      Animal Farm was a satire on the Soviet Union. The pigs were Napoleon- Stalin, Squeeler- Molotov and Snowball- Trotsky. Big Brother had the mustache like Stalin. The lack of production of basic necessities like razor blades definitely resembled the Soviet Union. Big Brothers reigning political party was named INGSOC. INGSOC was Orwell's way of mocking the English Socialists of the time.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 роки тому

      @@tesla-v2681 You understand that Orwell was a socialist himself?

    • @tesla-v2681
      @tesla-v2681 3 роки тому +1

      @@SandfordSmytheHe called BIg Brother's party Ingsoc to mock the British Socialists of his day. Especially the so called upper class socialists who detested everything about England yet lauded many other cultures around the world.

    • @SandfordSmythe
      @SandfordSmythe 3 роки тому

      @@tesla-v2681 And so, there is always someone who has to personalized a discussion. I appreciated your first two sentences. Orwell was noted for his allegiance to English culture. There is a picture of him making proper tea in a trench in Spain

  • @mikegarza5880
    @mikegarza5880 3 роки тому +47

    Yet Winston paused when he writes 2+2 on a dusty cafe table to think about host answer. He was still human

    • @samspiano7070
      @samspiano7070 3 роки тому +2

      i dont remember this part. if true this could be the happy ending i'd hoped for, instead of a resounding kick to the balls

    • @ShipperTrash88
      @ShipperTrash88 3 роки тому +6

      He ends up writing that it equals 5.....but the pause tells me that he knows it really doesn't

    • @Cenindo
      @Cenindo 2 роки тому +3

      I'm afraid the correct text of the novel has him writing the complete formula 2 + 2 = 5. By a typo, the last number dropped out in a number of printings, giving the impression that Winston maybe was not completely brainwashed after all and let the "answer" remain undefined instead of writing 5. Alas, the complete text indicates otherwise.

  • @yicama2098
    @yicama2098 3 роки тому +11

    What a marvelous tragedy! This is my first time ever learning the novel. Thank you for this.

  • @__piyushyadav____
    @__piyushyadav____ Рік тому +30

    "1984" is a dystopian novel written by George Orwell, published in 1949. It portrays a totalitarian society ruled by a regime led by the enigmatic figure known as Big Brother. Here are ten key points to explain the novel:
    1. Totalitarian Regime: The novel is set in the year 1984 in the superstate of Oceania, where a totalitarian government exercises complete control over every aspect of its citizens' lives.
    2. Big Brother: Big Brother is the emblematic leader of the regime, whose image is plastered everywhere, and he is worshiped as a god-like figure. The Party uses his image to create fear and blind loyalty among the citizens.
    3. Thought Police: The Thought Police are a secretive and powerful branch of the government that monitors and punishes any thought or behavior deemed rebellious or disloyal to the Party.
    4. Doublethink: The Party promotes doublethink, a concept where citizens are expected to hold two contradictory beliefs simultaneously and accept both as true, thereby eroding independent thought and critical thinking.
    5. Newspeak: The Party develops Newspeak, a simplified and controlled language designed to limit freedom of thought and prevent dissent. It aims to reduce the range of thought by eliminating words associated with rebellious ideas.
    6. Ministry of Truth: The Ministry of Truth is responsible for propaganda, rewriting historical records, and manipulating information to ensure the Party's version of events is accepted as truth by the populace.
    7. Winston Smith: The protagonist of the story, Winston Smith, works at the Ministry of Truth and becomes disillusioned with the Party's lies and oppression. He starts to secretly rebel against the regime.
    8. Julia: Julia is Winston's lover, and together, they embark on a forbidden relationship and engage in acts of rebellion against the Party in private.
    9. Room 101: Room 101 is the most feared place in the Ministry of Love, where prisoners are subjected to their worst fears and phobias, symbolizing the ultimate form of psychological torture and control.
    10. Themes: The novel explores themes such as totalitarianism, surveillance, censorship, the dangers of unchecked power, the manipulation of truth, and the resilience of the human spirit in the face of oppression.
    "1984" serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of totalitarianism and the importance of safeguarding individual freedom, privacy, and truth in the face of oppressive regimes. It remains a powerful and relevant work that continues to resonate with readers around the world.

  • @ollyaintjolly1249
    @ollyaintjolly1249 4 роки тому +11

    O'Brien when he walked into Winston's cel was basically like "Yeah actually it was just a prank. You just got pranked and now you're going to Room 101."

  • @Beeontree
    @Beeontree 5 років тому +70

    Who else was just interested in the book and doesn’t have an essay to write lol

    • @Patrk38
      @Patrk38 5 років тому +1

      That's the first audiobook I've listened, and the best one so far.

  • @slyshadow205
    @slyshadow205 6 років тому +15

    The irony is that London is actually heading into a 1984 state right now!

  • @manon11
    @manon11 2 роки тому +5

    I never comment on videos but today my English teacher asked us to post a comment under this video so, here I am. I have already worked on 1984 before so, what I can say about it is that I like the fact that we can see how futuristic it is. In the novel, people are being watched every step of the way ; nowadays we are being watched out no matter what we do with the internet - you have to accept cookies so the websites can have access to your informations and so you can have access to the website then.
    The fact that people aren't allowed to have any form of relationship, in 1984, is quite sad as human beings need to socialize, to love and to be loved. “Man is by nature a social animal" (to quote Aristotle) after all, isn't he? But here, this fact is taken against human beings - you aren't allowed to socialize in order to do the work and so you cannot rebel and plan a revolution if you're on your own.
    I'm gonna end this comment there - the animation is well done and it is very well summarized! Thank you for this video.

  • @bencows6784
    @bencows6784 9 років тому +374

    The book is based on George Orwell's time at summer camp.

    • @waluigiswaluweenie8194
      @waluigiswaluweenie8194 9 років тому +11

      Wut

    • @ElongatedVowels
      @ElongatedVowels 8 років тому +28

      +Brutalpony Kitteneater I'm certain that was a joke.

    • @myfavoriteplak
      @myfavoriteplak 7 років тому +6

      Bencows HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @greymajickjedi
      @greymajickjedi 7 років тому +3

      Your comment is based on someone having to wipe their ass in the woods, and lacking toilet paper or suitable leaves, utilizes a dead porcupine.

    • @humanbeing5396
      @humanbeing5396 6 років тому +3

      Or the time Bernie Sanders became president.

  • @birdiegirl1998
    @birdiegirl1998 8 років тому +271

    Teacher : 'Read 1984 by May 3rd'
    May 2, 10:30 pm
    Me : Aw sh**..haven't started better find the movie and pray for multiple choice 🙏🏻

    • @psychedandelevated2854
      @psychedandelevated2854 7 років тому +3

      Jon Rogers the book isn't even a reflection of it. It's like someone filled the book in shit and tried to press it onto a vhs cassette.

    • @greymajickjedi
      @greymajickjedi 7 років тому +36

      The book report isn't important.
      This book IS.

    • @AntiKiwieCS
      @AntiKiwieCS 6 років тому +3

      greymajickjedi the book really makes you think honestly

    • @benv7933
      @benv7933 6 років тому +1

      How did the test go?

    • @dominusfons4455
      @dominusfons4455 5 років тому +1

      Like any other person, I know - including me 😝. I’ve managed to half asses most of the book reports in high school and manage to get higher score than those who gave their 100%.

  • @mrpedia7263
    @mrpedia7263 4 роки тому +13

    Amazing summary. Just read the book and was searching for a good summary to allign some thoughts. Well done!

  • @MrJbooker33
    @MrJbooker33 2 місяці тому +1

    I found the ending to be quite enlightening, how big brother found its place in winstons world view and he finally accepts his life and looses his "insanity".

  • @mikecrest1489
    @mikecrest1489 4 роки тому +87

    I remember back to last year when my wife and I visited China for a 14 day land tour. When we were being driven from the Shanghai airport to our hotel, which took almost an hour, it was the most depressing sight ever. As far as the eye could see, in every direction, were tall, dark, foreboding apartment complexes. I thought to myself and didn't dare say it aloud, "this is what Orwell must have envisioned when he wrote 1984. Cameras, facial and fingerprint recognition everywhere. Tightly regimented.
    At the Shanghai airport one young lady attempted to take a picture of the inside of the airport with her cell phone. She was quickly and loudly shouted at by a security guard who made sure that she deleted the picture.

    • @dallastimebandits
      @dallastimebandits 3 роки тому +6

      Thanks for sharing

    • @praline4157
      @praline4157 2 роки тому +1

      This is what some would like to see as a global model.

    • @650ic6
      @650ic6 2 роки тому

      Sounds like Cairo.

    • @KristoKorps
      @KristoKorps 2 роки тому +1

      This is why I get annoyed when people casually mention that "america is basically 1984 today", or the odd fetishization of wanting to compare the US to this idea due to "cancel culture" or something pretty benign like social changes in culture.
      This starts with losing faith in the press and sowing doubt in the institutions we've erected, not some Twitter bans or lies made to look alarming.

  • @HeyiPlayMusic
    @HeyiPlayMusic 4 роки тому +28

    *world governments read this book*
    "You know.. those ideas arent half bad. Sounds like a plan to me !"

    • @TyronDV
      @TyronDV 3 роки тому

      The Thing is, Orwell was a Freemason ;)

  • @csd77771
    @csd77771 3 роки тому +11

    Today Twitter blocked the hashtag 1984. Let that sink in. #1984

    • @fuzbeatboxern5714
      @fuzbeatboxern5714 3 роки тому +3

      That's crazy when my fav creators move to Parlar I'm leaving twitter

    • @vanefron2
      @vanefron2 3 роки тому

      You can’t hashtag actual numbers on Twitter.... never could 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @csd77771
      @csd77771 3 роки тому +3

      @@vanefron2 I see that now. No hashtag for numbers. My mistake

  • @nirina3930
    @nirina3930 2 роки тому +7

    I really like disptopian fiction and this one is particularly interesting because this is so close to what happened during the 2WW and we are not safe to have the same situation one day. It’s very oppressive that I can’t believe it (almost) happened before!

    • @danielmogos8990
      @danielmogos8990 Рік тому

      I find it more close to what's happing today rather than what happened during ww2 😂.
      What's even more sad is that mostly cannot see it, even though is obvious.

  • @mariacreager7117
    @mariacreager7117 4 роки тому +45

    When at school in 1975 I was happy It was only ... a book, which I hated. Today it's a reality.....which I can't believe we live in... Scary.

  • @riohenry6382
    @riohenry6382 4 роки тому +6

    “They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything you had said or thought or done but the workings of the innermost heart remained impregnable” G. Orwell, 1984

  • @MsDreamGirl098
    @MsDreamGirl098 9 років тому +301

    O.M.G. i haven't read this book, but this creepily sounds exactly like North Korea today. Everywhere in the streets are huge statures of the leaders kim il sung and kim jong il, propaganda saying that america is bad and only north korea is good. In every house, there are portraits of the leaders, and all mail, phone calls and houses are censored and have surveillance which is pretty much being watched. If you say anything bad about the government or do something bad like watching american movies, not only will you get sent to prison camps but your WHOLE family including children goes there too. Then 3 generations of your family are trapped in the prison camps( and the camps are MUCH worse than Hitler's concentration camps) because of one person doing a minor crime. Finally, the Ministry of Truth and North Korea's Ryugyong Hotel are really similar. Both are tall and triangularish and they both contain over 3000 rooms. WTF. And how creepy is it that this was published in 1949 and the korean war was in 1950 WTFFF. Did Kim Il Sung take inspiration from this and was like I want my country to be exactly like this when this was supposed to be a warning? does anyone agree with me or am i getting paranoid?

    • @fearsomeclarinet
      @fearsomeclarinet 9 років тому +68

      +MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.

    • @fearsomeclarinet
      @fearsomeclarinet 9 років тому +3

      +MsDreamGirl098 I'm pretty sure he didn't read 1984 and then decide "lol, imma be a dictator". 1984 was meant to be a prediction of the future, it's not surprising at all that some aspects of it came true in some place on the planet.

    • @d_e_a_n
      @d_e_a_n 8 років тому +13

      I was thinking the same thing. North Korea is 1984.

    • @redarrowhead2
      @redarrowhead2 8 років тому +6

      +MsDreamGirl098 Wow U is like zo smart.

    • @Kissamiess
      @Kissamiess 8 років тому +12

      +MsDreamGirl098 I heard a story about some Westerners that were visiting North Korea and gave this book as a gift to one of the guides. She returned it soon after, saying it made her feel uncomfortable. Yeah, North Korea bears most resemblance to Orwell's dystopia in the modern world. The West lives in societies that are mode like Huxley's dystopia.

  • @nineteen-eighty-four-lore
    @nineteen-eighty-four-lore 8 місяців тому +2

    I love the illustrations. Great overview of this masterpiece of literature. 👍

  • @darrenr49
    @darrenr49 4 роки тому +27

    i've been reading bits and pieces of 1984 for the past 2 years (my brother has the book) and I really enjoyed the scenes in the Shop and with Julia and with winston writing his novel. I never read about O'brien or anything after that. I'm really bummed that this is how it turned out for winston, at the start of the book there seems to be so much hope for Winston - now I realize all of Winstons thought and actions were - for nothing? so sad.

  • @rodzandz
    @rodzandz 3 роки тому +339

    This book should be re-released and renamed to USA 2021.

    • @laaaliiiluuu
      @laaaliiiluuu 3 роки тому +56

      I correct you: World 2021

    • @pedroangelo3567
      @pedroangelo3567 3 роки тому +10

      Not just USA, in Brazil ( My Country ) the same thing is happening, it is all over the World.

    • @rodzandz
      @rodzandz 3 роки тому +15

      @@pedroangelo3567 Sorry to hear that brother. Keep on fighting!

    • @rodzandz
      @rodzandz 3 роки тому +20

      @@laaaliiiluuu Sadly yes... but we can't give up. We need to stand against these draconic left wing governments trying remove our freedoms.

    • @bronwyncate3854
      @bronwyncate3854 3 роки тому +1

      @@rodzandz HA! for sure bruther lets go git em! yeehaw we're gonna git them liberals! shoot em with our guns! hunt em down like deer!

  • @sherrycooper1370
    @sherrycooper1370 4 роки тому +67

    Add "Idiocracy" to 1984 and you get a very clear picture of today.