Nineteen Eighty-Four

1984 imagines a dystopian Great Britain that has come under the rule of a totalitarian party, Ingsoc, led by the omnipresent Big Brother. Winston Smith, a low-level bureaucratic worker, navigates between conformity and resistance in a society where individuality has been systematically obliterated. Debuting popular phrases like ‘Thought Police’ that remain relevant today, Orwell’s critique of government surveillance and propaganda...