Name: Nineteen Eighty Four - Richard Widmark - Theater Guild - Orwell
Uploaded: 2021-04-23T01:02:37+00:00
Duration: 49 min 27 s
Description: "The solid world exists and its laws do not change" The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government survei

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"The solid world exists and its laws do not change"

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not even exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.

Originally Broadcast: 4/26/1953
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