TributeAccording to a Guardian report, 67 years after its publication in 2017, George Orwell’s 1984 became the No 1 best-seller in the US, as sales boosted by 10,000%, while in UK and Australia it rose by 20% compared to the same period of 2016. They're falsehoods.”After Conway’s interview, in social media and elsewhere, people who read Orwell’s 1984, related her phrase with the term “Newspeak”—a kind of language that eliminates any independent thought that goes against the autocratic party in 1984. The party believes, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” So, they use force and make people believe what they want. The author of Animal Farm (1945), has presented in 1984 a poverty-stricken dystopian world, divided into three states: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, where Big Brothers rule. Michael Anderson directed a film that came out in 1956 while Michael Radford directed another released in 1984.

Source: Dhaka Tribune June 01, 2019 09:22 UTC