![]() ![]() ![]() All this changes for Winston when he meets Julia. The Party’s official policy of newspeak works to eliminate even the thought of resistance in people’s minds, creating vague and threatening phrases instead of precise ones. At home, Airstrip One is ruled with an iron grip by its sole political party, INGSOC, which is driven by a cult of personality around its leader Big Brother.Īs an Outer Party member of INGSOC, Winston lives a sheltered, if not particularly glamorous, life working for the Ministry of Truth, the state’s propaganda arm that revises history to prove Big Brother correct. The country, and the world at large, moves through a series of perpetual wars and alliances between three mega-countries: Oceania, Eastasia, and Eurasia. ![]() The British writer’s estate has granted approval to Julia, a novel by Sandra Newman ( The Country of Ice Cream Star) that reframes the horrifying story of fascism from the perspective of the original’s romantic interest.ġ984, which was first published in 1949, is told from the very narrow perspective of Winston Smith, who lives in a dystopia where Great Britain has been named Airstrip One. One of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century, George Orwell’s 1984, is getting a sequel of sorts. ![]()
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