Response to Bernard Crick’s Article: The Savage Satire of 1984 Still Speaks to Us Today

I agree with the position Bernard Crick took in his article “The savage satire of �1984’ still speaks to us today”. Although the world made it through the year 1984 successfully without any Big Brother trouble, no one knows if something so controlling could actually be realistic one day. No one knows what can happen in the future. The scary thing is, �the future’ can be anywhere from tomorrow, to five hundred years from now allowing that hint of fear to stay present.

It seems that everything in the Big Brother world is satiric or ironic. From the first paragraph of the book, the reader sees that everything Winston Smith endures is pessimistic. The first paragraph of the book tells the reader of the "swirl of gritty dust...The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage and old rag mats." Just from these few lines George Orwell makes it clear that there was absolutely nothing victorious about Victory Mansions. Hate week, for example, is a big event in Oceania. The people prepare for it like Christmas. Instead of jolly songs with family and friends over eggnog, Hate week is celebrated with fists in the air while chanting about death, Goldstein, and whatever the party wanted the citizens to hate.

Orwell’s intentions with the book 1984