![]() ![]() ![]() Orwell’s London of 1984, “chief city of Airstrip One, Oceana.” An example of the way things are managed: Emmanuel Goldstein, the proscribed Opposition leader, is a fiction artfully sustained by the authorities to lure deviationists into giving themselves away. It has become a dreadful occasion of anguish to-day conjecturing how much torture even a saint can put up with if the end is certainly not to be a spectacular martyrdom - but “vaporisation.” The less you are familiar with the idea of the agent provocateur as an instrument of oppression and rule the more you will shudder at the wiles used by the Ministry of Love in Mr. Winston Smith, of the Party (but not the Inner Party) kicks against the pricks, with what results we shall leave readers to find out for themselves. The story is brilliantly constructed and told. ![]() Huxley’s “Ape and Essence” was in the main a warning of the biological evils the split atom may have in store for us Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four speaks of the psychological breaking-in process to which an up-to-date dictatorship can subject non-cooperators. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a. T hough all “thinking people,” as they are still sometimes called, must by now have more than a vague idea of the dangers which mankind runs from modern techniques, George Orwell, like Aldous Huxley, feels that the more precise we are in our apprehensions the better. Written more than 70 years ago, 1984 was George Orwells chilling prophecy about the future. ![]()
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