1. Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. George Orwell
3. George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was born in India, in 1903. His father worked for the Civil Service. He went to the famous school of Eton, and wrote articles for college magazines. He died in 1950, after having written several books. He sold over two million copies of 1984 and his other famous novel, Animal Farm. He wrote this book because of his repulsion from fascism and communism. He shows how the dominance of any ideology will result in totalitarianism, which means the enslavement and dehumanisation of man. His book was at the time a warning against fascism and communism. Other books by Orwell: Down and out in Paris and London (1933) Burmese Days (1934) A Clergyman\'s Daughter (1935) Keep the Aspidistra flying (1936) Coming up for air (1936) The road to Wigan Pier (1937) Homage to Catalonia (1938) Animal Farm (1945) Politics and the English language (1950) Collected essays, journalism and letters of George Orwell (1968) 4. Penguin Books Ltd, UK, 1972. 5. 239 pages
6. Winston Smith: courageus: he starts writing a diary what wasn’t allowed. believing: he still believs that the party is wrong after they tortured him. naïve: he speaks to O’brien before he knows he is also a rebel or a spy.

Julia: takes initiative: she takes the first step to winston by giving him a note. careful: when she wants to be with winston she makes plans that nobody can see that then stay with each other. rebellious: she wants to join the brotherhood the rebels who fight the regime. 7. In London, the former Londen witch is now a city in Oceania. 8. In 1984 a fictional world
9. 1984, the world id divided into three parts, Oceania, Eastasia and Eurasia, all perpetually at war. Winston Smith lives in Oceania, in London. Oceania is ruled by the Party, which has created a totalitarian state without an opposition, leaded by Big Brother. Winston Smith starts to write a diary in a book of good old Quality which he has bought in a shop from a proles. He does this, although he knows that this is very dangerous, it can cause his death, as a resistance against the Party and Big Brother which he hates. He knows that the party tells a lot of lies. He works at the Ministry of Truth . His work is when something is published but it seems to struggle with the truth to change these publications. On this way the Party makes the past up-to-date. When, at one day, he has to change an article about three-ex-Party members, Aaronson, Jones and Rutherford who he has seen in the cafe the Chestnut Tree, he knows for sure that the Party tells lies and that he has the evidence in his hands. But he also knows that it is very dangerous to tell anybody about it, because he can be vaporized, so he throws the paper away. At his work, during the Two Minutes Hate, he sees a girl from the novel department. First he thinks that she is a member of the thoughtpolice and he wants to kill her. But when she has given him a note, it appears that he loves her and she loves him. Winston then rents a room from a proles and there have several meetings. The girl Julia also hates the Party and Big Brother and they want to try to join the
Brotherhood, the illegal resistance. When at his work Winston meets O\'Brien and O\'Brien makes a remark about an old friend of Winston who has been vaporized, Winston thinks that O\'Brien is a member of the Brotherhood (this was a very big mistake). Julia and Winston visit O\'Brien at home and he arranges that they get they get the book The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the leader of the Brotherhood. Then a few days later when Julia and Winston are reading the book , they are caught by the thoughtpolice and they are brought to the ministry of Love. There Julia and Winston are tortured by O\'Brien who is member of the thoughtpolice. But Winston hasn\'t betrayed Julia during the tortures and that makes him feel strong. Then he is Brought to room 101, the room where every body is tortured with the thing he is most scared of, and Winston is very scared of rats, and he is tortured with rats. He betrays Julia. Julia has also betrayed him, They don\'t love each other anymore and they are broken. But ...Winston loves Big Brother. 10. I think it’s a good book, a little difficult because it’s in the future. What happened in the book is what is happening now in our civilisation. Now they also want to know private things (SIS- card,...), they have camera’s everywhere and so on...