1984 Review

Being born after the Russian revolution I have not experienced a culture so terrorized.
Reading Orwell's beautifully crafted and emotionally attaching book has not only taught me about the Revolution that swept a country, but also about the power of such things as language and history. I read this book and then read the Spark Notes book as well, and learned a lot more about not only the history behind Orwell, but his reasons for writing 1984 and Animal Farm. Both of which are very well written and deeply moving. I can't possibly give you everything that happens in this amazing book, so I urge you to pick up a copy and a Spark Notes book on it as well. I -like many other reviews have mentioned- have heard the terms "Big Brother" and "all people are equal, but some are more equal than others" and now understand them, having read both 1984 and Animal Farm. You will never look at some things the same way, but we cannot afford to be naive. I not only enjoyed reading a classic, but thinking about principles I had not thought of often.