It follows the story of a man living in a world where monitoring capabilities are total and totally directed by an invisible oligarchy that controls the population through manipulation, such as "Newspeak" for example, which is a reduction of vocabulary to make disappear the subtlety of thought connected to these words, preventing the structuring of a complex thought. The rewriting of history is another example.
There is also a denunciation of state terrorism and the theory of the voltage across Goldsmith, who is a Communist, Islamist, fascist or lépouvantail which keeps the pressure in the population and justifies the power of elites, these intervening firefighters shot essences jerrycans.
Terrorism as inherent of the market society. (Rf. Francis Cousin, Letre against the have).
This technique can connect with leaden years in Italy, or Islamic terrorism sponsored among others.
This novel is also a fitness totalitarian mechanisms possible in this age of advanced technology.
Final reprogramming of the hero ends the novel in a terrible darkness, where Man has totally lost his freedom, especially his friends be as empirical soul. For this purpose, we glimpse a world without hope, where the dream of a new man and accompanied the beginning to the end of his life is fulfilled.
If this outcome can be interpreted literally, the allegory of a soft totalitarianism system, based on a mind control through manipulation, such as technical Pavlov's dog, can also be considered. (Rf. The manufacturing of consent Chomsky, Bernays Propaganda etc ...)
This novel is clearly a visionary novel, that of a political genius who understood the nature "bad" Soviet systems, but also the American model to some extent.
And one can say that this world is a merger of the two systems, which are also much closer than we believed.
If this novel proves to be a formidable political apocalyptic prophecy and a warning against the dangers of the future, The love story that makes up the novel is moving and has a particular meaning in this story. Thus, this novel draws its qualities in an outstanding and atmosphere.
This novel remains confusing because the establishment of such a society can definitively be effective and the specter of a new world order hangs over our lives.
This is also scary, because such a world dehumanizes the most eternal meaning, abolished the beauty, truth, grace and all that makes life worth living BE.
A world without hope, without purpose, without spirituality.
A novel it is important not to miss given its quality and the author's vision.
This novel is to be coupled with other books that explore these possibilities, but must also be appreciated for its formal quality.
