(15 Mar 2015, 9:21 pm)Dan wrote You'll have to explain. Don't think we ever did that one, but I remember doing Orwell.

Let's not take that out of context, either! [emoji14]

Hahaha, love it! 

Well, it's a dystopian novel that Orwell wrote in 1948 (and switched the last two digits around - so it's set in 1984). It was basically his vision of the future, and it's through the eyes of Winston Smith. 

It's basically an absolute nightmare of a future, every moment you're moves are tracked and you can't escape to the outside world. It's main face is ''Big Brother'', who watches over everyone in some way, (coincidentally, it's where we get the TV show from - everyone's moves tracked in a specific place ) and everyone fears.

Winston, who works for INGSOC (basically, the English Socialists [my take on it anyway]) and lives a miserable life. He hates this woman called Julia at his workplace, who he later falls in love with. They spend every spare minute they can together in a small room above a shop, little do they know the sympathetic-seeming shopkeeper, O'Brien, is a secret officer for the ''thought-police'' who can tap into anyone's mind at any time, and if you're committing a ''thoughtcrime'' (any pleasuring thoughts - let's not take that out of context! ) they execute you. 

He writes in a diary over time, a serious thoughtcrime. Eventually, O'Brien turns Winston and Julia in for interrogation, and after being tortured by the ''rats in the cage'' thing, they both betray each other by telling him to do it to each other instead of them. Winston is basically put through a horrible procedure where they eventually let you back into society. 

After he is released and they allow him to live freely (in some way, whichever way you think when you read it!) and he meets Julia one day in the future, where they both admit to betraying each other. They have a brief conversation, and Julia leaves. On the telescreen (remember, 1948, TVs weren't big back then! ) they announce that they have won a war on the ''Eurasian front'' (Winston lives on Airstrip One, our day London) and Winston finally realises, that after 40 years of hating him, that Big Brother is actually there to love him and protect him. The final line is ''He loved Big Brother''. That shocked me tbh, I thought they would kill him in the end! But, that said, my take on the final line is that he was about to be executed, and was moments later.

It's basically a society where nobody can escape. Orwell was very political, as you likely know, and that's what the novel centers around. 

You can look up the plot somewhere else on the internet Dan, I'm not the best at explaining and probably got a few things mixed up! lol