1984 George Orwell Chapter Summaries
John David Merin
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GREATWORKS After reading 1984, it somehow changed my view of the world. It opened my eyes to the way the world is turning into. The way 1984 presents the world is beginning to be similar to the world we view today. As I was reading the book, there were several times where I thought to myself that this is actually starting to happen, or has already happened. It’s quite scary to think that George Orwell was able to predict a world beyond his age and the way he ended the book was something to ponder about. I would like to highlight some of the pressing issues discussed in the book that the world should be aware about. Poverty is a pressing issue here in the Philippines. There are so many people who live below the poverty line, and there is a huge discrepancy when it comes to wealth distribution in the Philippines. Only a few actually are the ones who are truly rich at the expense of the majority of the population. There are many reasons why this is so: Our elected officers are also the ones who own most of the land, so it creates …show more content…
In 1984, war was shown to be an avenue of the government to spend money for something that might not even exist and it is also a way for the Party to spend the income of the proles. Take the case of the Iraqi war during the Bush administration. The American government was so persistent to start the war because Iraq was thought to have nuclear weapons and for housing Saddam Hussein only to find out that neither was true at the expense of soldiers, ammunition, and the lives of one hundred thousand civilians. In the book, it showed there that the war is actually a stalemate, and the government only wants to prolong the war to keep the people poor and they even bomb their own territory to make the proles believe that they still at war. They also make up news to show the people that there is something that is happening in the war but nothing is actually
C37
GREATWORKS After reading 1984, it somehow changed my view of the world. It opened my eyes to the way the world is turning into. The way 1984 presents the world is beginning to be similar to the world we view today. As I was reading the book, there were several times where I thought to myself that this is actually starting to happen, or has already happened. It’s quite scary to think that George Orwell was able to predict a world beyond his age and the way he ended the book was something to ponder about. I would like to highlight some of the pressing issues discussed in the book that the world should be aware about. Poverty is a pressing issue here in the Philippines. There are so many people who live below the poverty line, and there is a huge discrepancy when it comes to wealth distribution in the Philippines. Only a few actually are the ones who are truly rich at the expense of the majority of the population. There are many reasons why this is so: Our elected officers are also the ones who own most of the land, so it creates …show more content…
In 1984, war was shown to be an avenue of the government to spend money for something that might not even exist and it is also a way for the Party to spend the income of the proles. Take the case of the Iraqi war during the Bush administration. The American government was so persistent to start the war because Iraq was thought to have nuclear weapons and for housing Saddam Hussein only to find out that neither was true at the expense of soldiers, ammunition, and the lives of one hundred thousand civilians. In the book, it showed there that the war is actually a stalemate, and the government only wants to prolong the war to keep the people poor and they even bomb their own territory to make the proles believe that they still at war. They also make up news to show the people that there is something that is happening in the war but nothing is actually