It wasn't just a novel. It was a "Warning !!!"

There are a lot of people today, who don't know that this was a warning, not a handbook.

"Don't let it happen, it depends on you.' - Orwell

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face-for ever.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Only thing wrong with Orwell’s masterpiece, is he got the title wrong. Should have been called 2020.

Forgot to mention Winston's and Julia's secret hideaway room, where they thought they were safe and were able to act like "normal" people. They did not realize this room was a set up until the telescreen behind a quaint painting spoke up just before the thought police burst into the room. Winston and Julia had been recorded the entire time they thought they had privacy. So sad.

One of the most Important books on the planet everyone should read it.

This video is absolute gold. I love the way Goerge Orwell tries to warn people about totalitarianism. This book is absolutely amazing and make us realize how easy society can change, and how easy they can put pressure on you to make absolutely everything they want you to do. An amazing cautionnary tale, WW2 was probably the worst experience people had to go through with propaganda, brainwashing, etc. and George Orwell materialized it perfectly in hiqs book.

The worst is: people are doing it to themselves.

‘You will own nothing, and you will be happy’ World Economic Forum

No matter what ever happens again, these last two years opened my eyes to how flawed a species we are, there are many great humans but sadly we are so flawed we are destined for doom

It's honestly terrifying how much of this is actually happening in differnet ways, from targeted ads of things you were searching or even just chatting about, to totalitarian governments leading their countries completely free to do whatever they like. A novel truly ahead of it's time

This video is 10 years old and was suggested to me today. The odd thing is, I’m currently reading 1984. Big Brother is most certainly watching. Thought police are on the way. Phones are the telescreen.

when you have to write an essay by tomorrow

My daughter's senior English class brought me here. Currently reading along with her.

The sad thing, with Winston being broken, is that he really doesn't know better. O'Brien was able to break him because Winston trusted him and believed O'Brien had his best interests in mind. Because of O'Brien, everything he taught Winston became absolute truth to him.

1984, published 1948, a 36yr difference. 1984 to 2020’: a 36yr difference.

I read this book, it's scary and sad.

I just have read this book and it is really a masterpiece. All human beings should read it and think about it. A must have for everybody! Greetings from europe! 💖💖💖💖💖💥 It is modern and in ourdays so important to watch and keep your eyes open!

It's been a while since I read this book, but it's still an imperishable memory. At the beginning, I remember that all those grey landscapes and harsh laws made me uncomfortable ( to my mind, this must be the first step of a distopia in the sense that the main purpose of this type of literature is to enable you to put your habits and your society in question ). Then I was very surprised and impressed by the personnal developement of the main character, mainly because I didn't find him neither interresting nor brave at first. However, the author finally succeed in changing my mind and after some chapters I was just like "go boy, run for your freedom, be a rebel" :'). It also teached me that in a totalitarian regime, the little things of everyday (such as kiss the woman that you loved or read something) could became the most courageous. Obviously, the end just ruined my mood for two decades. I am still under the impression that one gives me a glimmer of hope to just extinguished it under my eyes one second later. However, isn't the reason that makes 1984 one of the best book ever written ?

These pictures are far too colorful. When I read the book I imagined cities being a massive swamp of greys blacks and other dark colors.

No one has control over us. We give it to them.

This video really helpes understand the meaning of 1984. I really like having animation, it allows us to be fully concentrated on the explications.

This is just like George Orwell’s book, 1984

This was supposed to be a warning! Not a Manual!

"The good message is that the government has to try really hard to truly get into Winston's head" wow, such an encouraging message. This book is so fucking scary because it's so true

Really nice produced video, from the esthetic to the content. It makes you want to read the book. The way it is written seems so powerful, deep. We can feel the loneliness with quotes just as this one "“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable” - George Orwell.

It reminded me I really liked this book because I red it when I was young, and I didn't understood the message at the time, neither the end of the story. It was blurry for me for a lot of years, but know that I am older I understand it and it confirms the bad mood I had at the end.

When you're a kid stuff like monsters ghosts and bugs would scare you. When you're an Adult. The evil inside peoples hearts. The concept of a dystopian world such as this. Essentially not being a human being anymore. That is more ftightening than any monster ghost or creepy crawly any day

Big Brother kinda looks like my dad.

It's terrifying to think that such a work, although exceptional in itself, could become our reality in the near future ...

my favorite part of 1984, that I rely the most on, is the description of the imperial system, and its obsession for survival. The exact description of the shareholders of the pharmaceutical industry... And also the exact description of the elite of the anglo saxon countries.

In the end they got him to voluntarily love Big Brother (or at least to think he did). Such a chilling tale, I was hoping for mass rebellion but I got solitary defeat.

No joke, recently there was a debate on twitter (because of course it's twitter) about 2 + 2 = 5. Pretty sure someone started it as a troll but it showed some people actually took it seriously and believed 2+2=5. It's scary to see this stuff become reality for us.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.

Watching this video made me want to read 1984. I started reading it once but I wasn’t captivated by the beginning. This video gives a good understanding of the book and makes you want to read it to understand it more and on your own level.

Didn't get to read it in school but it's definitely a book everyone should read.

It's funny that they're actually starting to push the 2 + 2 = 5 thing

Darn I never knew *sparknotes had a Channel this whole time! The website helped me survive English my senior year. I was so burned out.

I love the illustrations. Great overview of this masterpiece of literature. 👍

Studied1984 in high school in the 80's. It left me with a eerie impression and sick to my gut. To this day never forgotten and now its 2020 and I have that same feeling.

This was one of the most depressing novels I have ever read, it broke my heart when they broke Winston😢

April 2022 "Ministry of Truth " appears in America. Thank you Joe.

Bravo ! The video is a materpiece, you covered all the aspects of the novel. I didn't read it yet but I know what will be my next reading. It's such a good advertising for this story but also Orwell warn his readers about future and what we can choose not to live. I'll recommend your video to my friends. I know that my close ones would enjoy a reading like this, it's a dystopian world really well written and painted. Can't wait to watch other similar content !

As a Hongkonger, I am genuinely scared by what will happen to us if our revolution fails in the end

The book is now re-titled “How to Run a Government, for Dummies.”

this video is such a good recap from the books. It was really interesting to learn more about 1984.

Those illustrations are awesome!

We're in it.

Great breakdown and animations. Thanks!

I read the book in 1984. It's closer to reality then what you think.

Your video gave me the best explanation of the book and movie. Now i'm in the process of getting a dvd of it, thanks.

“One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Funny how KZfaq recommends this 10+ year old video during the Corona virus pandemic. 04/06/2020

It's remarkable, that the book fully outlines the process narcissists use on their victims. And indeed, you realize that the world we live in elects narcissists as leaders. We are brainwashed by the system itself. The system IS Big Brother. That's why no one can point fingers truly. We are eachother's Big Brother, encouraging loyalty to politeness, and censorship and agreement with "Me". Love, is fear.

In high school I read the spark notes instead of reading the assigned book from time to time 😎 Now over a decade later I’m too lazy to read 1984, so I searched for a video, and boom, spark notes got my back again 👊

As a fellow youtuber who creates animated book reviews, I just wanted to say that this video is great! Well done.

Back in my day, you actually had to read the SparkNotes.

If you didn’t read the book, you punked yourself. Nineteen Eighty Four is absolutely brilliant. I must have read it from cover to cover a dozen times.

I've seen videos on KZfaq recently that were debating whether 1984 or Brave New World is a better description of our current society. I'd say that for me 1984 is a more accurate description of the society in which we currently live. It also seems to me that the people in power took these great books that were intended to be warnings, and used them as roadmaps employing tactics from the dystopian societies depicted in both.

*Who's watching this during Corona?*

It is just a matter of time before this video is censored.

1984 was one of my first dystopian reading, and now the genre is basically my favorite. Even though Orwell is missused in many arguments, I never stopped diffending it and even learned to use it to prove many other points. Today, I like to bring 1984 in my arguments when i talk about language, neologism and freedom of thought, how we aren't able to talk even though we have the words, and everything. Highly recommand !

This is gold. Thank you for this.

I wonder if Orwell knew that his masterpiece was going to become a "How to Book"............

Oddly enough in london, we have the most cameras in the world. And we alos have such pyramid roofs on buildings..

I had to work on this video in progress and I confess that I would love to read this book now. The characters look interesting, the author's point of view could also be compared to our current vision... good things to compel me to read it.

My new favorite book. I can't believe it took me this long to read this

While I read the book I always imagined everything being gray (buildings houses etc)

I just finished reading the book, and MAAAANNNNNN what an ending!!!! I never read a book before specially a book with more than 100 pages. 1984 was definitely worth the time and pages it took me to read. The last page, the ending truly made me feel emotional.

We’re in this right now

How fitting to see this in 2021

I come back to this book every few years, and it blows my mind anew every time. Absolute masterpiece.

“Big brother is watching you” Step sis: wyd StEp bRo?

EXCELLENT SUMMARY. THANK YOU

I never comment on videos but today my English teacher asked us to post a comment under this video so, here I am. I have already worked on 1984 before so, what I can say about it is that I like the fact that we can see how futuristic it is. In the novel, people are being watched every step of the way ; nowadays we are being watched out no matter what we do with the internet - you have to accept cookies so the websites can have access to your informations and so you can have access to the website then. The fact that people aren't allowed to have any form of relationship, in 1984, is quite sad as human beings need to socialize, to love and to be loved. “Man is by nature a social animal" (to quote Aristotle) after all, isn't he? But here, this fact is taken against human beings - you aren't allowed to socialize in order to do the work and so you cannot rebel and plan a revolution if you're on your own. I'm gonna end this comment there - the animation is well done and it is very well summarized! Thank you for this video.

My favourite book of all time and considering how phenomenally intelligent and astute Orwell had to be to foresee the events which I don't think anybody can deny are unfolding before our very eyes, the genius of this work will be appreciated more as time goes by.

This is the first time I watch Orwell's 1984, i gotta say this gave me goosebumps because many things he talked about are happening today o.0

I'm working on this in class. I didn't read the book but the video gives me a boost to read it. I hope the atmosphere in the book looks like in the video. Indeed I like when it's eerie. The subjectives adventure of a man in a totalitarian regime could be very interesting.

Someone needs to tell the American government that this book was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual.

Can you imagine if Winston LET the rats eat his face off rather than have it happen to his girlfriend? It would be the most profound, tragic and sad heroic act achieved in fiction. NO one in his right mind would be able to hold it together on reading it.

Ladies and Gentlemen, this is quickly becoming our reality.

Psychologically, it's so incredible to think you can limit people thought just by limiting the words they know !

I really like disptopian fiction and this one is particularly interesting because this is so close to what happened during the 2WW and we are not safe to have the same situation one day. It’s very oppressive that I can’t believe it (almost) happened before!

2:53 a store is named "Old Major" after the character in Animal Farm

Why does Big Brother look like Pablo Escober...anyways, good book

The warning was foretold for us now. Very true. Thanks.

0:58 "The food's disgusting" that's already accurate to normal London.

"Fascism is coming in the United States most probably, but it will not come under that name" - Norman Thomas

Starting to look like a reflection of modern day more & more.

Weird how even though great writers and philosophers have warned all of us about this type of thing, knowing about it doesn't seem to be able to stop it. I feel it's happening here and now in the US. I've read that democracy depends on having a population that's at least semi-educated..... and that 'ain't 'Merica' !! Land of the incredibly ignorant. The people who really need to heed all the warnings about authoritarianism are people who have never even heard of this book!

we will soon be there!

Who else was just interested in the book and doesn’t have an essay to write lol

Excellent summary!

Just re-read it. The first time was in high school... when it was fiction.

One of my favorite books to read growing up. Without truly knowing oneself the outside will always rule.

Really good summary on one of the best books I have ever read

Wow, I really didn't expect it to end like that. Crazy

Reminds me of the “re-education“ camps of the uyghurs in china

The book is based on George Orwell's time at summer camp.