In the book 1984 the first chapter explains the world that the protagonist Winston lives in. He gives us a bit of a back story and tells us his perspective on this place. Basically he lives in this superstate called Oceania that is run by the party. The party is run by big brother, an all knowing and powerful deity like being that works behind the scenes of this dystopia.
In the beginning Winston begins to realize he hates the current way things are and wants to do something about it which makes him liable for thoughtcrime. Thoughtcrime is basically what the name implies, a crime for thinking differently than the party. At this point I'm personally thinking why does anyone put up with something like this and wondered what would happen if the United States was more like this. With the recent elections I got something like this: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/07/27/dismantling-the-conservative-platform-part-1-we-need-federal-government/big-brother-watching/
No i did not come up with this but this image is the closest rendition of my thought process I could think of.
Aside from the actual book I'd like to put my thoughts at the end of each of these. Let's start with the Party first off. They sound like they've gained too much power and I would like a prequel perhaps that explains how they gained all this power. I mean people wouldn't just let them get this much power and it couldn't have happened over night so how did the Party do it? Another thing at this point that struck me is why no one bothered to fight it. Winston couldn't be the only one finds this unfair and wants to cause a change, so where are these people is one thing i found myself asking.
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