A review by mintomillk
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

5.0

5 stars. i have some issues with this book, but Orwell's work captivates you in its universe and enthralls you into a feeling of doomed senselessness so well that the errors seem redundant to bring up. i could easy criticise something and then make an argument for why that thing is the way it is, to add further to the dystopia that 1984 describes so well to warn its readers to be vigilant against. even though Winston and Julia as characters do not have much depth or development towards them throughout the novel, aspects of the book and of their actions stay with me long after i've finished reading (which is many years, now), particularly in how their meeting again haunts me. in that way, Orwell has accomplished with myself, and others, i'd reckon, his purpose in writing a novel where authoritarian control over the individual is so complete that it echoes into your very person.