A review by whippycleric
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This is such a classic book and its influence in popular culture after 75 years is so vast it's hard to understate its importance. Inspired by Zamyatins We Orwell surpassed it in many ways. The writing is so easy to read and the whole book is gripping. The only section which takes a little effort to read is the book within a book in the 2nd act,but this works well as a literary device so it's fine. There's a great variety of characters which mirrors their variety of skill in doublethink. This is also one of the only books where I've read the appendix with as much veracity as the book itself.

Told in 3 acts they boil down to despair, hope and acceptance, which follow the themes of love as well, those being no feelings of love, deep love, and the loss of that love. There's no happy ending for Winston, but one feels there's still hope, the hope that Winston had until he was broken, though maybe that's just because we haven't been through room 101