Resumen 1984 En Ingles

1984
BY GEORGE ORWELL
Introduction

Winston smith lives in a world where everybody is watched by big brother 24 hours a day through cameras as television programmes, where the past and the present are controlled by big brother and by the thought police. They decide what people must do or think.
The ‘brotherhoods’ werebig brother’s spies.
Winston fights against hate, hunger and pain because of the love he feels for Julia and viceversa. He is brave because in this world love is punished. He lives and works in Oceania. In this country, government is only interested in power. They do not care about people feelings.

Part One: Though Crime

Chapter 0ne: Big Brother is watching you

One cold and windy day inApril, Winston was getting home (on the seventh floor in Victory Mansion), when he saw a big poster on one of the hall wall showing a more than-a meter-wide face of a handsome man of about 45, with large black moustache and big eyes that seemed to follow him as he moved. Bellow the face he could read ‘Big Brother is watching you’.
Despite his bad knee, he went up the stairs, as during the day,the lift did not work to save money for the hate week.
He was short with fair hair. He was 39. The cheap soap, old razor blades and the winter cold became his face skin red and rough. In his flat, a voice came from a telescreen that was on the right wall. The voice was talking about the last year’s production of iron. He could not turn it off or just turn it down.
He saw through the window thatthere was the same picture on every corner and one on the house opposite with the eyes looking at Winton’s house. The telescreen had a microphone so the thought police could see and listen to everybody at any time but as nobody knew the exactly moment they would be controlled, they always behaved in a
good way. Winston sat with his back to the telescreen so they could not see his face and he triedto remember himself when he was a boy but he could not. After that, he looked at The Ministry of Truth (it was called Minitrue in ‘Newspeak’, the new Oceania language), where he and his partners worked on news and entertainment. It was a
kilometer away his house and he was able to read the three slogans of the party (written on the building side) ‘Peace is War’, ‘Freedom is Slavery’ and‘Ignorance is Strength’.
He could also see the Ministry of Peace where they worked on war (Minipax), the Ministry of Plenty (Miniplenty) that was responsible of the economy and the Ministry of Love (Miniluv), that was in charge of law and order and it was the most frightening ministry. It did not have windows and there were guards in black uniforms and guns who did not allow people to be near it.
Each timeWinston turned to the telescreen; he smiled because it was better to show you were happy.
Then, he went into his small kitchen, looking for something to eat but he just had a piece of bread that was for the next day’s breakfast so he put gin in a cup and drank it. That made him feels cheerful. He went back to the living room and sat at a table on the left of the telescreen, where it could notsee him. He took a pen and a big cream paper diary he bought in a shop in a poor part of the town where party members were forbibben to go but almost all of them did, as it was the only way to get razor blades.
He wanted to start writing his diary but he knew that although it was not illegal (because there was not any law against it) if they found it he could be punished with dead or with 25 yearsin a prison.
The next morning, a voice from the telescreens said all the minitrue workers to go to the hall for the Two Minutes of Hate’ and Emmanuel Goldstein’s face appeared on the screen (he was thin, clever, white-haired and small beard). Behind him, there were thousands of Eurasian soldiers. Oceania used to be at war with Eurasia or Eastasia.
Goldstein started to critize the party,...