1984 is a dystopian novel that gives us a glimpse of what society would be like without freedom of thought under a totalitarian regime. The entire world falls into endless warfare, people are persecuted, history is manipulated, and the media is filled only with propaganda. Winston Smith, a low-ranking member of the English Socialist Party, lives in suffering in a repressive world where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can read your mind. In his longing for truth and freedom, Smith embarks on a forbidden love affair with Julia, and they dare to join a secret revolutionary organization.
“All records have been destroyed or falsified, all books have been rewritten, all pictures have been redrawn, all statues, streets, and buildings have been renamed, all dates have been altered.” And that process continues day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. There is nothing left except an endless present, a time when the Party is always right. I do know that the past is falsified, but I will never be able to prove it." –George Orwell