![]() ![]() ![]() But it is also the plot of Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, a Russian novel originally published in English in 1924. This is a description of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was first published 60 years ago on Monday. The story is intended as a warning against and a prediction of the natural conclusions of totalitarianism. In the end, the system discovers both the man and the woman, and after a period of physical and mental trauma the protagonist discovers he loves the state that has oppressed him throughout, and betrays his fellow rebels. ![]() Encouraged by a woman who seems to represent the political and sexual freedom of the pre-revolutionary era (and with whom he sleeps in an ancient house that is one of the few manifestations of a former world), he writes down his thoughts of rebellion – perhaps rather imprudently – as a 24-hour clock ticks in his grim, lonely flat. It is a book in which one man, living in a totalitarian society a number of years in the future, gradually finds himself rebelling against the dehumanising forces of an omnipotent, omniscient dictator. ![]()
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