at the end of the book, what is the authors point?
are we all doomed?
2007-12-28 03:16:58 · 8 answers · asked by Nanook~Maybe I need a longer Name?~ 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Orwell's real point is in between, not at the end. & it's not just one point, but many. 1984 is one of my favorite books. I believe in the end Orwell says, this is how the government could win now it’s up to you how to counter such a government plan.
2007-12-28 07:08:33 · answer #1 · answered by Investor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but what is the end of the book? Orwell refused to cut out the appendix for the American ed even though the publishers warned they could lose $40,000 (and they were 1948 $$!) in sales. The Appendix is in standard English and refers to Newspeak as a thing in the past. So the book ends on a note of hope at odds with the seemingly despairing end of the narrative.
2007-12-28 12:24:52 · answer #2 · answered by gravybaby 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I took 1984 to be a cautionary tale, to not give up your voice or become complacent. 1984 shows what can happen when people let others dictate what their lives should be like and filter what they are allowed to know. Are we doomed? I'm not sure, but the consequences will be dire if we go down the same road as the characters and society in the book.
2007-12-28 11:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by V.W. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess it's that two against the world will have their moment for a moment but not forever and eventually everyone toes the line.
Let's do a reality bite here. Go research Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, then and now.
Go see what they were doing in the 1970 vs later in time.
I watched my friends grow up and came to a conclusion that sooner or later everyone becomes their parents.
You going from being a Berkeley radical drug taking Dead head to a conservative with funamentalistic morals, at least where your daughter is concerned!
Maybe Orwell saw that too. People mellow and join the establishment when they get older.
It means you can't fight city hall.
2007-12-28 11:49:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The point is to emphasise how much power the government and media actually have, or could have. Everyone in that dystopia is doomed because eventually after someone is told something repeatedly and convincingly and everyone else seems to agree, you start to wonder whether it might be true, thus you lose to the government.
2007-12-28 12:42:29 · answer #5 · answered by kelby_lake 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is a cautionary tale, one that we haven't taken too much notice of by all accounts. The reason why the book is still popular and relevent is because many of the oppressive images in the book are now a reality. Walk through any city centre and count how many CCTVs you see. You are beiing watched by big brother (the government).
2 + 2 = ?
its up to you.
2007-12-28 12:26:30 · answer #6 · answered by Joe S 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Orwell's dystopian state, all positive feeling that wasn't directed toward the state, personified by Big Brother, was something to be stamped out.
2007-12-28 11:35:05 · answer #7 · answered by aida 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always thought of 1984 as a love story. :)
Beware of the Department of Homeland Security, and
learn to love the Constitution.
2007-12-28 11:44:41 · answer #8 · answered by DR V 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋