There are many classic sentences in "1984", such as this one "Big Brother is watching you".

Big Brother was a middle-aged man of about forty-five years old, with a thick black beard and a rugged and handsome face, from which Stalin's shadow could be seen.

Big Brother never really appears, he only appears on the screen.

As the leader of the Oceanic Nation, he is adored by everyone, and every time people have to salute the big brother on the screen respectfully, not daring to make disrespectful looks.

Because Big Brother is watching you, he's everywhere.

This is the cult of personality.

The cult of personality had not yet developed in the USSR during the time of Lenin, and Lenin himself was very much against it.

"Leaders are not angels, not saints, not heroes, but ordinary people," he stressed. ”

The cult of personality in the Soviet Union began in 1928, the year Stalin's 50th birthday.

Beginning a few days before Stalin's birthday, portraits of Stalin were hung in all public places and larger buildings in Moscow, and newspapers and periodicals were full of articles and poems in praise of Stalin.

On his birthday, Pravda, which had eight pages, devoted six pages to Stalin.

Stalin was praised as "the greatest leader, a perfect man without any mistakes", and "every word of Stalin was uttered on behalf of the Soviet people." ”

There was an unwritten rule in the Soviet Union that Stalin had to give a standing ovation for 10 minutes.

Whoever does not make an effort to applaud is not loving Stalin enough.

If someone dares to pretend and don't need the police to investigate, the people around them will report and expose it, which is really ubiquitous.

You never know who is going to tell you, not even your family.

"1984" also features an enemy of Big Brother who has a Jewish face and goatee markings.

This refers to the leader of the Soviet Union, Trotsky. Because Trotsky also had a goatee.

This enemy went abroad, not only colluding with foreign countries, but also inciting the people of Oceania to oppose Big Brother and form an organization called the "Brotherhood" to engage in espionage and conspiracy activities in Oceania.

After Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1929, he continued to attack Stalin.

Therefore, although the story of the novel "1984" is set in London. But it's still the story of the Soviet Union.

In Oceania, there is a sin called the sin of thought, and as long as you have a thought, you are guilty of a thought sin.

The Thought Police will monitor through electronic curtains installed throughout the country, and if they find that someone has a thought, they will arrest the person and make him disappear completely.

The "thoroughness" here is true thoroughness.

By falsifying history and documents, they will completely erase this person from the lives of the inhabitants of Oceania, as if this person never existed.

So. How can you tell if a person has a mind?

A very simple math problem, two plus two equals many.

In Oceania, anyone who answers that two plus two equals four is a thinking person, because in this country two plus two equals five.

If you want to survive in this country, you have to give up the ability to think and become a slave without thoughts.

There is only one voice in the whole country, and Big Brother is what he says.

The protagonist of "1984" works in the Records Division of the Ministry of Truth in Oceania.

As a minor clerk under the Ministry of Truth, his daily task is to constantly falsify documents. All documents and books that may have political and ideological significance are the goals of his work.

He has to keep tampering with the past to make it fit the needs of reality.

Trotsky exposed Stalin's falsification of Soviet historical documents. In order to make his resume perfect and free of mistakes, Stalin revised all previous books and meeting minutes.

The revised text became the history of the Soviet Union.

This fully confirms the saying that history is often written by the victors.

The protagonist is not very satisfied with this life, so he decides to keep a diary.

In Oceania, it is not allowed to keep a diary. Because journaling means that you have your own thoughts, you have thoughts.

The protagonist risked being arrested by the thought police and secretly wrote a diary, which became his spiritual sustenance.

He wrote in his diary.

"The age of uniformity, the age of loneliness, the age of Big Brother. The age of double-thinking, to the future, to the past, to an era of freedom of thought, of different people, but of not loneliness - to an age in which truth exists and what has been done cannot be erased. ”

"Down with Big Brother!"

This is undoubtedly a very dangerous idea.

At this time, he met a woman, a young, beautiful, sexy, natural and healthy woman with a foul mouth, and a curvy body full of vitality.

They began a secret relationship.

But in Oceania, this is not allowed, and there is no room for personal feelings or passionate lives between individuals.

You don't belong to a family, clan, tribe, country, or even a class, you belong only to Big Brother.

The sole goal of marriage is to have children in order to better serve Big Brother.

The protagonist longs for a love and needs solace in his heart, so they escape from the surveillance of Big Brother and risk their lives again and again for dates.

As a result, he was naturally discovered by the ideological police and subjected to severe torture.

Under the extreme horror of torture, both of them broke their original oath and betrayed each other.

They gave up their free will and chose to continue loving Big Brother before being killed by the police.

Correspondingly, the Ministry of Truth of Oceania will erase all records of the protagonist, who never existed.

"1984" is about a brief period of betrayal under totalitarian rule, which ended in failure.

This story is not a little familiar, similar to the plot of "We" by the Soviet writer Zamyatin.

Including British writer Huxley's "Brave New World", all three novels describe the story of the protagonist who fights against the whole world in a futuristic world, but ultimately loses.

This is the "dystopian" novel.

Its counterpart is utopia, first proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, which means "utopian country".

Thomas More, the founder of British utopian socialism, depicted such a scene in his famous book Utopia.

"There, property is communal, people are equal, distribution according to need, everyone wears uniform uniforms, eats in public restaurants, and officials are elected by the public."

This is undoubtedly an ideal country.

Since the concept of utopia was born, there have been many people who have carried out similar social practices.

In ancient China, the most utopian figure was Wang Mang.

When Wang Mang became emperor, he began radical reforms, abolishing private ownership of land, nationalizing land, prohibiting private individuals from buying and selling land, and then redistributing it.

He also wanted to abolish slavery and prohibit all slave trade.

He even implemented a planned economy, with the government controlling prices, collecting income taxes, and implementing a monopoly system.

Therefore, many people in later generations thought that Wang Mang was a traverser, but he was just too eager to realize socialism and was accidentally killed by the natives. (To be continued.) )