Was Orwell an actual PLEB? After finally reading 1984 after years of putting it off, I can only say I'm disappointed...

BNW's kinda shitty though

t. brainlet

if you're serious, read Politics and the English Language as a primer. 1984 is more than just a sheer display of totalitarian brutality. it's about the psychological and linguistic tools of a totalitarian state.

I preferred 1984 over it because I didn't like how BNW doubled down on its worldbuilding and used the characters just to show the world off even more (I can't remember a single character now so I don't think I ever cared for them). Whereas 1984 felt a lot more first person rather than birds eye view (which isn't a bad view it's just that it feels a bit lecture-like).

also, you have to be a real brainlet to try to compare BNW and 1984 with each other on anything besides literary merit. they both have their own niche and powerful political messages to convey.

I've done. It's so much better than 1984.

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1984 didn't even have drug-induced brainwashing

What the fuck kind of dystopian society doesn't put their slaves into permanent comas?

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Here's where you're wrong, kid, 1984 is based as fuck.

Yes this is what I thought was truly terrifying and impactful about the story. How the people were happy to be simplifying and even eventually eliminating words and speech. It shows how the gov wanted to turn them into basically cattle.

This too, I felt like I was the one being taken through his journey. I felt so much suspense too. The way Winston thought and responded to O'Brian during his "cleanse" felt real as if I were thinking and responding it, as if I were the one being put through the torture. 1984 actually really resonated with me.

Those long sections from "the book" are excruciatingly boring and unnecessary. Orwell acts like a claptrap journalist, nothing else.

1984 is just anti-totalitarian propaganda (in the traditional, neutral sense of the world). Effective and well argued, like a good essay, but artistically barren. It's not a great book by any means.

wrong

Why?

I don't object to your not liking "1984," but you haven't done a very good job explaining why you didn't like it.

The rare actual Yea Forums post, thanks user.

Has it ever crossed your mind that perhaps it’s you that doesn’t get it? Many people who are much more intelligent and cultured than you have seen the value in Orwell’s writings. They may not think he is Shakespeare but they appreciate him.

Learn some humility.

"Orgy porgy orgy porgy". Really? Come on.

They do the plebs have their pints in the pubs iirc and are bretty content

This

There isn't a single opinion that can't be shat on in this way, because there will almost always be a person who is smarter than you who disagrees with you.

It's gin

By the way, was Winston wrong to believe in the proles? He thought of them as being 'alive' whilst himself was 'dead'.

>everything is cringy. book bad

Explain your thoughts if you wish to be taken seriously. Cite examples and preferably use quotes. To answer your questions, 1984 is regarded so well because it posited the idea of contemporary dystopian societies and brought that concept into the public debate/consciousness.

But he simply ripped off 'We'. The main problem with Orwell is that his fame stems from the fact he was Anglo. That's it. He's not original nor a good writer, his plot is contrived, he inserts long passages of political pontification. I don't know, it's just not a good book desu

it is the harry potter of "actual literature". English speaking cunts like this shit because they read it in high school

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