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In his book George Orwell describes a sort of negative utopia that the main characters live in. Orwell tells about the everyday life of Winston Smith. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, and rewrites articles from the past for the Times. In the futuristic world called ‘Oceania’ people of the Party have worked very hard for decades trying to rewrite and rewrite and finally erase the past. No one really knows what day, month, or year it is. Everything just blends together, but for Winston this isn’t enough. Winston tries very hard throughout the book to discover not only his past, but also the past of ‘Oceania’ and what it was before. At one point in the book Winston comes across a child’s history book, that read, “In the old days, before the glorious Revolution, London was not the beautiful city that we know today. It was a dark, dirty, miserable place where hardly anybody had enough to eat and where hundreds of thousands of poor people had no boots on their feet and not even a roof to sleep under…But in among all this terrible poverty there were just a few great big beautiful houses that were lived in by rich men who had as many as thirty servants to look after them. These rich men were called capitalists. They were fat, ugly men with wicked faces, like the one in the picture on the opposite page…” and it goes on to describe the capitalists and how they owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money.
Approximate Word count = 976
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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