But don't give me this "Oh, you have problems with 1984, that means you like the idea of executing political prisoners and feeding them to rats and shit" Shut up
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And honestly I think that's because he couldn't show the transition because he wasn't sure what the story would be There's a lot of shit you'd have to figure out for how this exaggerated nightmare scenario might occur
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It's easier not to explain it, let the Party appear all-powerful and eternal, make the story be about the fact that no one can actually know anything about the reality of the world I get that, but it remains a cop out
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That's what I mean by trying to remember but he can't, he remembers bad things that happened to him and his family personally but was too young to know anything about what was going on in the world
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I think this is why V for Vendetta is a little more effective (imo) as far as setting up the dystopia; it provides some of that transition in flashbacks.
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re: dystopian novels, I found 1984 to be the most viscerally unsettling, but A Brave New World and We were much more interesting intellectually.
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