It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, 300 metres into the air. was startlingly different from any other object in sight. The Ministry of Truth - Minitrue, in Newspeak.BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU' the caption beneath it ran. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.It depicted simply an enormous face, more than a metre wide: the face of a man of about forty-five, with a heavy black moustache and ruggedly handsome features. At one end of it a coloured poster, too large for indoor display, had been tacked to the wall. The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats.Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him. It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength. ( Full text of the book) Part One Rebellion. Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984 film based on the novel) The story, which focuses on the life of Winston Smith, was Orwell's vision of a totalitarian state which has absolute control over every action and thought of its people through propaganda, secrecy, constant surveillance, and harsh punishment. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a dystopian novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1949. From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU the caption beneath it ran. To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone - to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.
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