Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a great but very depressing novel by George Orwell about the life under the rule of a purely tyrannical and dictatorial government. The novel tells the story of a person who starts thinking of going against the supreme ruler, the Big Brother, and then he is entrapped in a series of events that are totally unimaginable.  The basic philosophy of the writer is to select whether capitalism is better than conservative and tyrannical rule and vice versa. If one is brought up in liberal environment then the life of that person is hell in a very conservative environment where highest form of surveillance is there to keep an eye on him all the time. Can you live like that? The reader automatically asks while reading. It’s like most powerful person has decided that you should now live according to the rule-book he has created and then if you try to resist or raise question, you are liable to be wiped out from the history of humanity. It reminds me of the structure and living life style of many religions and communities on earth who actually believe in choking the person and kill the individuality that is the basic trait of any human. The historical example of the divided states of Germany after the Second World War comes into my mind when the government of East Germany practically proved that human development can be taken back to Stone Age through total mind control of the people of any place no matter what history they had. The ending of the novel is something I wasn't expecting during the course of the events that the protagonist was going through and that makes it a novel worth reading till the end.